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Recently, the performance of monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been significantly boosted with the integration of transformer models. However, the transformer models are usually computationally-expensive, and their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Zhimeng Zheng , Tao Huang , Gongsheng Li , Zuyi Wang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) typically produces depth estimations that are defined up to an unknown scale or shift. When only sparse metric anchors are available, recovering accurate metric depth becomes challenging yet necessary for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuanyan Li , Matthias Althoff

Depth estimation is a foundational component for 3D reconstruction in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, existing monocular depth estimation techniques often exhibit limited performance to the varying illumination and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinning Yao , Bo Liu , Bojian Li , Jingjing Wang , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

We formulate monocular depth estimation using denoising diffusion models, inspired by their recent successes in high fidelity image generation. To that end, we introduce innovations to address problems arising due to noisy, incomplete depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Saurabh Saxena , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

This paper considers the problem of single image depth estimation. The employment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has recently brought about significant advancements in the research of this problem. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Junjie Hu , Mete Ozay , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) has gained popularity for obtaining depth predictions directly from videos. However, these methods often produce scale invariant results, unless additional training signals are provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gasser Elazab , Torben Gräber , Michael Unterreiner , Olaf Hellwich

Unsupervised monocular depth estimation has received widespread attention because of its capability to train without ground truth. In real-world scenarios, the images may be blurry or noisy due to the influence of weather conditions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Runze Liu , Dongchen Zhu , Guanghui Zhang , Yue Xu , Wenjun Shi , Xiaolin Zhang , Lei Wang , Jiamao Li

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental problem in computer vision with numerous applications. Recently, LIDAR-supervised methods have achieved remarkable per-pixel depth accuracy in outdoor scenes. However, significant errors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Lior Talker , Aviad Cohen , Erez Yosef , Alexandra Dana , Michael Dinerstein

Explainable artificial intelligence is increasingly employed to understand the decision-making process of deep learning models and create trustworthiness in their adoption. However, the explainability of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lorenzo Cirillo , Claudio Schiavella , Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini

Monocular depth estimation can play an important role in addressing the issue of deriving scene geometry from 2D images. It has been used in a variety of industries, including robots, self-driving cars, scene comprehension, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ruilin Ma , Shiyao Chen , Qin Zhang

Monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is a core challenge in computer vision, playing a pivotal role in real-world applications that demand accurate spatial understanding. Although prior works have shown promising zero-shot performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Girish Chandar Ganesan , Yuliang Guo , Liu Ren , Xiaoming Liu

This paper addresses the problem of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE). Existing approaches on MDE usually model it as a pixel-level regression problem, ignoring the underlying geometry property. We empirically find this may result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Yixuan Liu , Yuwang Wang , Shengjin Wang

Monocular omnidirectional depth estimation is receiving considerable research attention due to its broad applications for sensing 360{\deg} surroundings. Existing approaches in this field suffer from limitations in recovering small object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Masum Shah Junayed , Arezoo Sadeghzadeh , Md Baharul Islam , Lai-Kuan Wong , Tarkan Aydin

Monocular depth estimation is a challenging task in complex compositions depicting multiple objects of diverse scales. Albeit the recent great progress thanks to the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the state-of-the-art monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Mingyi He

Depth is a vital piece of information for autonomous vehicles to perceive obstacles. Due to the relatively low price and small size of monocular cameras, depth estimation from a single RGB image has attracted great interest in the research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a challenging task in computer vision, often hindered by the cost and scarcity of high-quality labeled datasets. We tackle this challenge using auxiliary datasets from related vision tasks for an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alessio Quercia , Erenus Yildiz , Zhuo Cao , Kai Krajsek , Abigail Morrison , Ira Assent , Hanno Scharr

Depth estimation from monocular endoscopic images presents significant challenges due to the complexity of endoscopic surgery, such as irregular shapes of human soft tissues, as well as variations in lighting conditions. Existing methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-07 Dawei Lu , Deqiang Xiao , Danni Ai , Jingfan Fan , Tianyu Fu , Yucong Lin , Hong Song , Xujiong Ye , Lei Zhang , Jian Yang

Bokeh rendering and depth estimation share a fundamental optical connection, yet existing methods fail to fully exploit this reciprocity. Conventional bokeh pipelines rely heavily on noisy depth maps that inevitably introduce visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hangwei Zhang , Armando Fortes , Tianyi Wei , Xingang Pan

Depth sensing is a critical function for robotic tasks such as localization, mapping and obstacle detection. There has been a significant and growing interest in depth estimation from a single RGB image, due to the relatively low cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Diana Wofk , Fangchang Ma , Tien-Ju Yang , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

Detecting visual anomalies in diverse, multi-class real-world images is a significant challenge. We introduce \ours, a novel unsupervised multi-class visual anomaly detection framework. It integrates a Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Samet Hicsonmez , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Djamila Aouada