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Scaling has powered recent advances in vision foundation models, yet extending this paradigm to metric depth estimation remains challenging due to heterogeneous sensor noise, camera-dependent biases, and metric ambiguity in noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Baorui Ma , Jiahui Yang , Donglin Di , Xuancheng Zhang , Jianxun Cui , Hao Li , Yan Xie , Wei Chen

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

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) from thermal images is a crucial technology for robotic systems operating in challenging conditions such as fog, smoke, and low light. The limited availability of labeled thermal data constrains the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xingxing Zuo , Nikhil Ranganathan , Connor Lee , Georgia Gkioxari , Soon-Jo Chung

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

Learning-based monocular depth estimation leverages geometric priors present in the training data to enable metric depth perception from a single image, a traditionally ill-posed problem. However, these priors are often specific to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Karlo Koledić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Petrović , Ivan Marković

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

Accurate depth estimation under adverse night conditions has practical impact and applications, such as on autonomous driving and rescue robots. In this work, we studied monocular depth estimation at night time in which various adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Jianing Qiu , Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Benny Lo

Recent monocular foundation models excel at zero-shot depth estimation, yet their outputs are inherently relative rather than metric, limiting direct use in robotics and autonomous driving. We leverage the fact that relative depth preserves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jaehyeon Cho , Jhonghyun An

Recent years have witnessed substantial progress on monocular depth estimation, particularly as measured by the success of large models on standard benchmarks. However, performance on standard benchmarks does not offer a complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jack Nugent , Siyang Wu , Zeyu Ma , Beining Han , Meenal Parakh , Abhishek Joshi , Lingjie Mei , Alexander Raistrick , Xinyuan Li , Jia Deng

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) 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

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

We propose PureCLIP-Depth, a completely prompt-free, decoder-free Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) model that operates entirely within the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) embedding space. Unlike recent models that rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ryutaro Miya , Kazuyoshi Fushinobu , Tatsuya Kawaguchi

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

The problem of depth completion involves predicting a dense depth image from a single sparse depth map and an RGB image. Unsupervised depth completion methods have been proposed for various datasets where ground truth depth data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sangmin Hong , Suyoung Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is a salient task for 3D scene understanding. Learned jointly with monocular ego-motion estimation, several methods have been proposed to predict accurate pixel-wise depth without using labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Hemang Chawla , Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Accurate, dense depth estimation is crucial for robotic perception, but commodity sensors often yield sparse or incomplete measurements due to hardware limitations. Existing RGBD-fused depth completion methods learn priors jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zhiyuan Zhou , Ruofeng Liu , Taichi Liu , Weijian Zuo , Shanshan Wang , Zhiqing Hong , Desheng Zhang

Foundation-model-based monocular depth estimation offers a viable alternative to active sensors for robot perception, yet its computational cost often prohibits deployment on edge platforms. Existing methods perform independent per-frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Lianjie Ma , Yuquan Li , Bingzheng Jiang , Ziming Zhong , Han Ding , Lijun Zhu

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

Different environments pose a great challenge to the outdoor robust visual perception for long-term autonomous driving, and the generalization of learning-based algorithms on different environments is still an open problem. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Hanjiang Hu , Baoquan Yang , Zhijian Qiao , Shiqi Liu , Jiacheng Zhu , Zuxin Liu , Wenhao Ding , Ding Zhao , Hesheng Wang