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Depth estimation is a cornerstone of perception in autonomous driving and robotic systems. The considerable cost and relatively sparse data acquisition of LiDAR systems have led to the exploration of cost-effective alternatives, notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yucheng Mao , Ruowen Zhao , Tianbao Zhang , Hang Zhao

We design a multiscopic vision system that utilizes a low-cost monocular RGB camera to acquire accurate depth estimation. Unlike multi-view stereo with images captured at unconstrained camera poses, the proposed system controls the motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Weihao Yuan , Rui Fan , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

Depth imaging is a crucial area in Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), as it plays a key role in detecting and measuring objects in the vehicle's surroundings. However, a significant challenge in this domain arises from missing information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mohamad Mofeed Chaar , Jamal Raiyn , Galia Weidl

Depth estimation is critical in autonomous driving for interpreting 3D scenes accurately. Recently, radar-camera depth estimation has become of sufficient interest due to the robustness and low-cost properties of radar. Thus, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Huawei Sun , Hao Feng , Julius Ott , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

We propose HYBRIDDEPTH, a robust depth estimation pipeline that addresses key challenges in depth estimation,including scale ambiguity, hardware heterogeneity, and generalizability. HYBRIDDEPTH leverages focal stack, data conveniently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ashkan Ganj , Hang Su , Tian Guo

Monocular depth estimation aims to recover the depth information of 3D scenes from 2D images. Recent work has made significant progress, but its reliance on large-scale datasets and complex decoders has limited its efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ren , Zeyu Zhang , Wukai Li , Qingxiang Liu , Hao Tang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has widely applicable but remains highly challenging due to the inherently ill-posed nature of reconstructing 3D scenes from single 2D images. Modern Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gongshu Wang , Zhirui Wang , Kan Yang

We introduce MGNet, a multi-task framework for monocular geometric scene understanding. We define monocular geometric scene understanding as the combination of two known tasks: Panoptic segmentation and self-supervised monocular depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Markus Schön , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

Autonomous vehicles deployed in remote environments typically rely on embedded processors, compact batteries, and lightweight sensors. These hardware limitations conflict with the need to derive robust representations of the environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Timothy K Johnsen , Marco Levorato

Self-supervised depth estimation, which solely requires monocular image sequence as input, has become increasingly popular and promising in recent years. Current research primarily focuses on enhancing the prediction accuracy of the models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xi Zhang , Yaru Xue , Shaocheng Jia , Xin Pei

Most existing methods often rely on complex models to predict scene depth with high accuracy, resulting in slow inference that is not conducive to deployment. To better balance precision and speed, we first designed SmallDepth based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Fei Wang , Jun Cheng

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

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation holds significant importance in the fields of autonomous driving and robotics. However, existing methods are typically trained and tested on standard datasets, overlooking the impact of various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ziyang Song , Ruijie Zhu , Chuxin Wang , Jiacheng Deng , Jianfeng He , Tianzhu Zhang

Self-supervised learning for depth estimation uses geometry in image sequences for supervision and shows promising results. Like many computer vision tasks, depth network performance is determined by the capability to learn accurate spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Hang Zhou , David Greenwood , Sarah Taylor

Depth sensing is of paramount importance for unmanned aerial and autonomous vehicles. Nonetheless, contemporary monocular depth estimation methods employing complex deep neural networks within Convolutional Neural Networks are inadequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng Feng , Congxuan Zhang , Zhen Chen , Weiming Hu , Liyue Ge

Although cameras are ubiquitous, robotic platforms typically rely on active sensors like LiDAR for direct 3D perception. In this work, we propose a novel self-supervised monocular depth estimation method combining geometry with a new deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Sudeep Pillai , Allan Raventos , Adrien Gaidon

A 360{\deg} perception of scene geometry is essential for automated driving, notably for parking and urban driving scenarios. Typically, it is achieved using surround-view fisheye cameras, focusing on the near-field area around the vehicle.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Varun Ravi Kumar , Marvin Klingner , Senthil Yogamani , Markus Bach , Stefan Milz , Tim Fingscheidt , Patrick Mäder

Autonomous vehicles demand high accuracy and robustness of perception algorithms. To develop efficient and scalable perception algorithms, the maximum information should be extracted from the available sensor data. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sebastian Huch , Florian Sauerbeck , Johannes Betz

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

Depth Estimation and Object Detection Recognition play an important role in autonomous driving technology under the guidance of deep learning artificial intelligence. We propose a hybrid structure called RealNet: a co-design method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Zhuohao Li , Fandi Gou , Qixin De , Leqi Ding , Yuanhang Zhang , Yunze Cai