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Accurate 3D lane detection from monocular images presents significant challenges due to depth ambiguity and imperfect ground modeling. Previous attempts to model the ground have often used a planar ground assumption with limited degrees of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Chaesong Park , Eunbin Seo , Jongwoo Lim

In this paper we tackle a very novel problem, namely height estimation from a single monocular remote sensing image, which is inherently ambiguous, and a technically ill-posed problem, with a large source of uncertainty coming from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Lichao Mou , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Depth estimation is one of the essential tasks to be addressed when creating mobile autonomous systems. While monocular depth estimation methods have improved in recent times, depth completion provides more accurate and reliable depth maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Wolfgang Boettcher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Ke Li , Dengxin Dai

We present a visual-inertial depth estimation pipeline that integrates monocular depth estimation and visual-inertial odometry to produce dense depth estimates with metric scale. Our approach performs global scale and shift alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Diana Wofk , René Ranftl , Matthias Müller , Vladlen Koltun

Monocular depth estimation has improved significantly in recent years, driven by increasingly powerful models and large-scale training data. Predicted depth is increasingly used as an input signal for downstream tasks such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Viktor Kocur , Sithu Aung , Gabrielle Flood , Yaqing Ding , Lukas Bujnak , Torsten Sattler , Zuzana Kukelova

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

Depth estimation is usually ill-posed and ambiguous for monocular camera-based 3D multi-person pose estimation. Since LiDAR can capture accurate depth information in long-range scenes, it can benefit both the global localization of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Peishan Cong , Yiteng Xu , Yiming Ren , Juze Zhang , Lan Xu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Yuexin Ma

Underwater infrastructure requires frequent inspection and maintenance due to harsh marine conditions. Current reliance on human divers or remotely operated vehicles is limited by perceptual and operational challenges, especially around…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hongjie Zhang , Gideon Billings , Stefan B. Williams

Monocular depth foundation models generalize well across scenes, yet they are typically optimized with uniform pixel-wise objectives that do not distinguish user-specified or task-relevant target regions from the surrounding context. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuxin Du , Tao Lin , Zile Zhong , Runting Li , Xiyao Chen , Jiting Liu , Chenglin Liu , Ying-Cong Chen , Yuqian Fu , Bo Zhao

Monocular depth estimation in the wild inherently predicts depth up to an unknown scale. To resolve scale ambiguity issue, we present a learning algorithm that leverages monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Height estimation has long been a pivotal topic within measurement and remote sensing disciplines, proving critical for endeavours such as 3D urban modelling, MR and autonomous driving. Traditional methods utilise stereo matching or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Zhan Chen , Yidan Zhang , Xiyu Qi , Yongqiang Mao , Xin Zhou , Lulu Niu , Hui Wu , Lei Wang , Yunping Ge

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

Metric depth estimation plays an important role in mobile augmented reality (AR). With accurate metric depth, we can achieve more realistic user interactions such as object placement and occlusion detection. While specialized hardware like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ashkan Ganj , Yiqin Zhao , Hang Su , Tian Guo

This work proposes a new method to accurately complete sparse LiDAR maps guided by RGB images. For autonomous vehicles and robotics the use of LiDAR is indispensable in order to achieve precise depth predictions. A multitude of applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Davy Neven , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool

We present a novel approach for metric dense depth estimation based on the fusion of a single-view image and a sparse, noisy Radar point cloud. The direct fusion of heterogeneous Radar and image data, or their encodings, tends to yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Han Li , Yukai Ma , Yaqing Gu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

We propose POLAR, a novel radar-guided depth estimation method that introduces polynomial fitting to efficiently transform scaleless depth predictions from pretrained monocular depth estimation (MDE) models into metric depth maps. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Patrick Rim , Hyoungseob Park , Vadim Ezhov , Jeffrey Moon , Alex Wong

Camera traps are widely used for wildlife monitoring, but extracting accurate distance measurements from monocular images remains challenging due to the lack of depth information. While monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods have advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Niccolò Niccoli , Lorenzo Seidenari , Ilaria Greco , Francesco Rovero

Self-supervised monocular methods can efficiently learn depth information of weakly textured surfaces or reflective objects. However, the depth accuracy is limited due to the inherent ambiguity in monocular geometric modeling. In contrast,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xu Chi , Yun Ye , Ziwei Chen , Xingang Wang

There has been tremendous research progress in estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular camera image. Existing methods for single-image depth prediction are exclusively based on deep neural networks, and their training can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ali Jahani Amiri , Shing Yan Loo , Hong Zhang

Detecting small obstacles on the road is critical for autonomous driving. In this paper, we present a method to reliably detect such obstacles through a multi-modal framework of sparse LiDAR(VLP-16) and Monocular vision. LiDAR is employed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Aasheesh Singh , Aditya Kamireddypalli , Vineet Gandhi , K Madhava Krishna