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Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Amodal depth estimation aims to predict the depth of occluded (invisible) parts of objects in a scene. This task addresses the question of whether models can effectively perceive the geometry of occluded regions based on visible cues. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Zhenyu Li , Mykola Lavreniuk , Jian Shi , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Peter Wonka

Dense and accurate depth estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, grasping, and navigation, yet currently available depth sensors are prone to errors on transparent, specular, and general non-Lambertian surfaces. To mitigate these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Simon Dorer , Martin Büchner , Nick Heppert , Abhinav Valada

Monocular depth estimation is vital for scene understanding and downstream tasks. We focus on the supervised setup, in which ground-truth depth is available only at training time. Based on knowledge about the high regularity of real 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vaishakh Patil , Christos Sakaridis , Alexander Liniger , Luc Van Gool

In the area of self-supervised monocular depth estimation, models that utilize rich-resource inputs, such as high-resolution and multi-frame inputs, typically achieve better performance than models that use ordinary single image input.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Wencheng Han , Jianbing Shen

We present a method for depth estimation with monocular images, which can predict high-quality depth on diverse scenes up to an affine transformation, thus preserving accurate shapes of a scene. Previous methods that predict metric depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Wei Yin , Xinlong Wang , Chunhua Shen , Yifan Liu , Zhi Tian , Songcen Xu , Changming Sun , Dou Renyin

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation aims to infer depth information without relying on labeled data. However, the lack of labeled information poses a significant challenge to the model's representation, limiting its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Guodong Sun , Junjie Liu , Mingxuan Liu , Moyun Liu , Yang Zhang

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

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Luigi Piccinelli , Yung-Hsu Yang , Christos Sakaridis , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Luc Van Gool , Fisher Yu

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

Accurately estimating depth in 360-degree imagery is crucial for virtual reality, autonomous navigation, and immersive media applications. Existing depth estimation methods designed for perspective-view imagery fail when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ning-Hsu Wang , Yu-Lun Liu

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

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous navigation, yet deep learning approaches often predict only relative depth without a consistent metric scale. This limitation reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiuling Zhang

Monocular depth estimation has recently progressed beyond ordinal depth to provide metric depth predictions. However, its reliability in underwater environments remains limited due to light attenuation and scattering, color distortion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zijie Cai , Christopher Metzler

We introduce Stereo Anywhere, a novel stereo-matching framework that combines geometric constraints with robust priors from monocular depth Vision Foundation Models (VFMs). By elegantly coupling these complementary worlds through a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Luca Bartolomei , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

While recent depth foundation models exhibit strong zero-shot generalization, achieving accurate metric depth across diverse camera types-particularly those with large fields of view (FoV) such as fisheye and 360-degree cameras-remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuliang Guo , Sparsh Garg , S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Xinyu Huang , Liu Ren

We present Buffer Anytime, a framework for estimation of depth and normal maps (which we call geometric buffers) from video that eliminates the need for paired video--depth and video--normal training data. Instead of relying on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Zhengfei Kuang , Tianyuan Zhang , Kai Zhang , Hao Tan , Sai Bi , Yiwei Hu , Zexiang Xu , Milos Hasan , Gordon Wetzstein , Fujun Luan

Monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is a crucial task to solve for indoor scene reconstruction on edge devices. Despite this importance, existing models are sensitive to factors such as boundary frequency of objects in the scene and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sanghyun Byun , Jacob Song , Woo Seong Chung

Indoor robot navigation is often compromised by glass surfaces, which severely corrupt depth sensor measurements. While foundation models like Depth Anything 3 provide excellent geometric priors, they lack an absolute metric scale. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiamin Zheng , Jingwen Yu , Guangcheng Chen , Hong Zhang

By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficient detail. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit a superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang Zhang , Bingxin Ke , Hayko Riemenschneider , Nando Metzger , Anton Obukhov , Markus Gross , Konrad Schindler , Christopher Schroers