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In this paper, we present a system for incrementally reconstructing a dense 3D model of the geometry of an outdoor environment using a single monocular camera attached to a moving vehicle. Dense models provide a rich representation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Louis Gallagher , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani , John B. McDonald

Real-time, high-fidelity monocular depth estimation from remote sensing imagery is crucial for numerous applications, yet existing methods face a stark trade-off between accuracy and efficiency. Although using Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ruizhi Wang , Weihan Li , Zunlei Feng , Haofei Zhang , Mingli Song , Jiayu Wang , Jie Song , Li Sun

Per-pixel ground-truth depth data is challenging to acquire at scale. To overcome this limitation, self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising alternative for training models to perform monocular depth estimation. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Michael Firman , Gabriel Brostow

Self-supervised learning for monocular depth estimation is widely investigated as an alternative to supervised learning approach, that requires a lot of ground truths. Previous works have successfully improved the accuracy of depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Noriaki Hirose , Shun Taguchi , Keisuke Kawano , Satoshi Koide

Depth estimation is a core task in 3D computer vision. Recent methods investigate the task of monocular depth trained with various depth sensor modalities. Every sensor has its advantages and drawbacks caused by the nature of estimates. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 HyunJun Jung , Patrick Ruhkamp , Guangyao Zhai , Nikolas Brasch , Yitong Li , Yannick Verdie , Jifei Song , Yiren Zhou , Anil Armagan , Slobodan Ilic , Ales Leonardis , Benjamin Busam

Monocular depth estimation has drawn widespread attention from the vision community due to its broad applications. In this paper, we propose a novel physics (geometry)-driven deep learning framework for monocular depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

We introduce MetricHMSR, a novel framework for recovering metric human meshes and 3D scenes from a single monocular image. Existing methods struggle to recover metric scale due to monocular scale ambiguity and weak-perspective camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chentao Song , He Zhang , Haolei Yuan , Haozhe Lin , Jianhua Tao , Hongwen Zhang , Tao Yu

In this paper, we propose two new algorithms for maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) of high dimensional sparse covariance matrices. Unlike most of the state of-the-art methods, which either use regularization techniques or penalize the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-12 Ghania Fatima , Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

Monocular depth estimation aims at predicting depth from a single image or video. Recently, self-supervised methods draw much attention since they are free of depth annotations and achieve impressive performance on several daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Kun Wang , Zhenyu Zhang , Zhiqiang Yan , Xiang Li , Baobei Xu , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Monocular depth estimation is a highly challenging problem that is often addressed with deep neural networks. While these are able to use recognition of image features to predict reasonably looking depth maps the result often has low metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Patrik Persson , Linn Öström , Carl Olsson

Accurate depth estimation with lowest compute and energy cost is a crucial requirement for unmanned and battery operated autonomous systems. Robotic applications require real time depth estimation for navigation and decision making under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Rajeev Patwari , Varo Ly

Monocular 3D scene understanding tasks, such as object size estimation, heading angle estimation and 3D localization, is challenging. Successful modern day methods for 3D scene understanding require the use of a 3D sensor. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xinshuo Weng , Kris Kitani

Traditional monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) systems struggle in low-texture environments where sparse visual features are insufficient for accurate pose estimation. To address this, dense Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Arda Alniak , Sinan Kalkan , Mustafa Mert Ankarali , Afsar Saranli , Abdullah Aydin Alatan

Previous methods for 3D human motion recovery from monocular images often fall short due to reliance on camera coordinates, leading to inaccuracies in real-world applications. The limited availability and diversity of focal length labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Wei Yao , Hongwen Zhang , Yunlian Sun , Yebin Liu , Jinhui Tang

We integrate sparse radar data into a monocular depth estimation model and introduce a novel preprocessing method for reducing the sparseness and limited field of view provided by radar. We explore the intrinsic error of different radar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Chen-Chou Lo , Patrick Vandewalle

Estimating depth from a single image is a challenging visual task. Compared to relative depth estimation, metric depth estimation attracts more attention due to its practical physical significance and critical applications in real-life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ruijie Zhu , Chuxin Wang , Ziyang Song , Li Liu , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

The homogeneous transformation between a LiDAR and monocular camera is required for sensor fusion tasks, such as SLAM. While determining such a transformation is not considered glamorous in any sense of the word, it is nonetheless crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Jessy W. Grizzle

3D geo-information is of great significance for understanding the living environment; however, 3D perception from remote sensing data, especially on a large scale, is restricted. To tackle this problem, we propose a method for monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Sining Chen , Yilei Shi , Zhitong Xiong , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Monocular visual odometry approaches that purely rely on geometric cues are prone to scale drift and require sufficient motion parallax in successive frames for motion estimation and 3D reconstruction. In this paper, we propose to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Nan Yang , Rui Wang , Jörg Stückler , Daniel Cremers

Estimating a scene's depth to achieve collision avoidance against moving pedestrians is a crucial and fundamental problem in the robotic field. This paper proposes a novel, low complexity network architecture for fast and accurate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shan An , Fangru Zhou , Mei Yang , Haogang Zhu , Changhong Fu , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas