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Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jialei Xu , Yuanchao Bai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Monocular depth estimation is an ill-posed problem as the same 2D image can be projected from infinite 3D scenes. Although the leading algorithms in this field have reported significant improvement, they are essentially geared to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiaodong Yang , Zhuang Ma , Zhiyu Ji , Zhe Ren

Recent advances in end-to-end unsupervised learning has significantly improved the performance of monocular depth prediction and alleviated the requirement of ground truth depth. Although a plethora of work has been done in enforcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Vinay Kaushik , Brejesh Lall

We present a novel unsupervised learning framework for single view depth estimation using monocular videos. It is well known in 3D vision that enlarging the baseline can increase the depth estimation accuracy, and jointly optimizing a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Lipu Zhou , Jiamin Ye , Montiel Abello , Shengze Wang , Michael Kaess

Dense depth estimation is essential to scene-understanding for autonomous driving. However, recent self-supervised approaches on monocular videos suffer from scale-inconsistency across long sequences. Utilizing data from the ubiquitously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Hemang Chawla , Arnav Varma , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

The success of monocular depth estimation relies on large and diverse training sets. Due to the challenges associated with acquiring dense ground-truth depth across different environments at scale, a number of datasets with distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 René Ranftl , Katrin Lasinger , David Hafner , Konrad Schindler , Vladlen Koltun

Monocular 3D lane detection is essential for autonomous driving, but challenging due to the inherent lack of explicit spatial information. Multi-modal approaches rely on expensive depth sensors, while methods incorporating fully-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Max van den Hoven , Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Pieter Piscaer , Thijs Wensveen , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Unsupervised monocular depth estimation techniques have demonstrated encouraging results but typically assume that the scene is static. These techniques suffer when trained on dynamical scenes, where apparent object motion can equally be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yihong Sun , Bharath Hariharan

Depth estimation and 3D object detection are critical for scene understanding but remain challenging to perform with a single image due to the loss of 3D information during image capture. Recent models using deep neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Julie Chang , Gordon Wetzstein

This paper reports a new continuous 3D loss function for learning depth from monocular images. The dense depth prediction from a monocular image is supervised using sparse LIDAR points, which enables us to leverage available open source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Yuanxin Zhong , Pingping Lu , Zhong Cao , Ryan M. Eustice , Huei Peng

Over the past few years, monocular depth estimation and completion have been paid more and more attention from the computer vision community because of their widespread applications. In this paper, we introduce novel physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

Underwater monocular SLAM is a challenging problem with applications from autonomous underwater vehicles to marine archaeology. However, existing underwater SLAM methods struggle to produce maps with high-fidelity rendering. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kangxu Wang , Shaofeng Zou , Chenxing Jiang , Yixiang Dai , Siang Chen , Shaojie Shen , Guijin Wang

We present an algorithm for reconstructing dense, geometrically consistent depth for all pixels in a monocular video. We leverage a conventional structure-from-motion reconstruction to establish geometric constraints on pixels in the video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Xuan Luo , Jia-Bin Huang , Richard Szeliski , Kevin Matzen , Johannes Kopf

This paper tackles the challenges of self-supervised monocular depth estimation in indoor scenes caused by large rotation between frames and low texture. We ease the learning process by obtaining coarse camera poses from monocular sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Chaoqiang Zhao , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Lei Zhou , Qiyu Sun , Yang Tang , Stefano Mattoccia

Due to difficulties in acquiring ground truth depth of equirectangular (360) images, the quality and quantity of equirectangular depth data today is insufficient to represent the various scenes in the world. Therefore, 360 depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Ilwi Yun , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Previous monocular depth estimation methods take a single view and directly regress the expected results. Though recent advances are made by applying geometrically inspired loss functions during training, the inference procedure does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yue Luo , Jimmy Ren , Mude Lin , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Hongsheng Li , Liang Lin

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

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation presents a powerful method to obtain 3D scene information from single camera images, which is trainable on arbitrary image sequences without requiring depth labels, e.g., from a LiDAR sensor. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Marvin Klingner , Jan-Aike Termöhlen , Jonas Mikolajczyk , Tim Fingscheidt

Accurate endoscope pose estimation and 3D tissue surface reconstruction significantly enhances monocular minimally invasive surgical procedures by enabling accurate navigation and improved spatial awareness. However, monocular endoscope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Muzammil Khan , Enzo Kerkhof , Matteo Fusaglia , Koert Kuhlmann , Theo Ruers , Françoise J. Siepel

Monocular depth estimation enables 3D perception from a single 2D image, thus attracting much research attention for years. Almost all methods treat foreground and background regions ("things and stuff") in an image equally. However, not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xinlong Wang , Wei Yin , Tao Kong , Yuning Jiang , Lei Li , Chunhua Shen