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Monocular and stereo depth estimation offer complementary strengths: monocular methods capture rich contextual priors but lack geometric precision, while stereo approaches leverage epipolar geometry yet struggle with ambiguities such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tongfan Guan , Jiaxin Guo , Chen Wang , Yun-Hui Liu

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

We present ProtoDepth, a novel prototype-based approach for continual learning of unsupervised depth completion, the multimodal 3D reconstruction task of predicting dense depth maps from RGB images and sparse point clouds. The unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Patrick Rim , Hyoungseob Park , S. Gangopadhyay , Ziyao Zeng , Younjoon Chung , Alex Wong

Despite significant progress made in the past few years, challenges remain for depth estimation using a single monocular image. First, it is nontrivial to train a metric-depth prediction model that can generalize well to diverse scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) plays a pivotal role in various computer vision applications, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often fail to meet key requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Andrii Litvynchuk , Ivan Livinsky , Anand Ravi , Nima Kalantari , Andrii Tsarov

We propose SharpDepth, a novel approach to monocular metric depth estimation that combines the metric accuracy of discriminative depth estimation methods (e.g., Metric3D, UniDepth) with the fine-grained boundary sharpness typically achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Duc-Hai Pham , Tung Do , Phong Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

Depth completion involves predicting dense depth maps from sparse LiDAR inputs. However, sparse depth annotations from sensors limit the availability of dense supervision, which is necessary for learning detailed geometric features. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yingping Liang , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Ying Fu

Purpose: Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is vital for scene understanding in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, endoscopic video sequences are often contaminated by smoke, specular reflections, blur, and occlusions, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Muhammad Asad , Emanuele Colleoni , Pritesh Mehta , Nicolas Toussaint , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Maria Robu , Faisal Bashir , Rahim Mohammadi , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

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

Event cameras can record scene dynamics with high temporal resolution, providing rich scene details for monocular depth estimation (MDE) even at low-level illumination. Therefore, existing complementary learning approaches for MDE fuse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Haotian Liu , Sanqing Qu , Fan Lu , Zongtao Bu , Florian Roehrbein , Alois Knoll , Guang Chen

Robust depth estimation under dynamic and adverse lighting conditions is essential for robotic systems. Currently, depth foundation models, such as Depth Anything, achieve great success in ideal scenes but remain challenging under adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shihan Peng , Yuyang Xiong , Hanyu Zhou , Zhiwei Shi , Haoyue Liu , Gang Chen , Luxin Yan , Yi Chang

Zero-shot depth estimation (DE) models exhibit strong generalization performance as they are trained on large-scale datasets. However, existing models struggle with high-resolution images due to the discrepancy in image resolutions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Byeongjun Kwon , Munchurl Kim

We present WorldMirror, an all-in-one, feed-forward model for versatile 3D geometric prediction tasks. Unlike existing methods constrained to image-only inputs or customized for a specific task, our framework flexibly integrates diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yifan Liu , Zhiyuan Min , Zhenwei Wang , Junta Wu , Tengfei Wang , Yixuan Yuan , Yawei Luo , Chunchao Guo

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) models have undergone significant advancements over recent years. Many MDE models aim to predict affine-invariant relative depth from monocular images, while recent developments in large-scale training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Yifan Yu , Shaohui Liu , Rémi Pautrat , Marc Pollefeys , Viktor Larsson

In this paper we consider the task of image-guided depth completion where our system must infer the depth at every pixel of an input image based on the image content and a sparse set of depth measurements. We propose a novel approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Chao Qu , Ty Nguyen , Camillo J. Taylor

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to transform an RGB image of a scene into a pixelwise depth map from the same camera view. It is fundamentally ill-posed due to missing information: any single image can have been taken from many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Depth estimation from images serves as the fundamental step of 3D perception for autonomous driving and is an economical alternative to expensive depth sensors like LiDAR. The temporal photometric constraints enables self-supervised depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yi Wei , Linqing Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Yongming Rao , Guan Huang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

In the field of monocular depth estimation (MDE), many models with excellent zero-shot performance in general scenes emerge recently. However, these methods often fail in predicting non-Lambertian surfaces, such as transparent or mirror…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junrui Zhang , Jiaqi Li , Yachuan Huang , Yiran Wang , Jinghong Zheng , Liao Shen , Zhiguo Cao

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