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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

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

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

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

Monocular depth estimation is an important step in many downstream tasks in machine vision. We address the topic of estimating monocular depth from defocus blur which can yield more accurate results than the semantic based depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Lahiru Wijayasingha , Homa Alemzadeh , John A. Stankovic

Monocular depth estimation is a crucial task to measure distance relative to a camera, which is important for applications, such as robot navigation and self-driving. Traditional frame-based methods suffer from performance drops due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tianbo Pan , Zidong Cao , Lin Wang

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

Estimating depth from a monocular image is an ill-posed problem: when the camera projects a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, depth information is inherently and permanently lost. Nevertheless, recent work has shown impressive results in estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jagpreet Chawla , Nikhil Thakurdesai , Anuj Godase , Md Reza , David Crandall , Soon-Heung Jung

This work delves into unsupervised monocular depth estimation in endoscopy, which leverages adjacent frames to establish a supervisory signal during the training phase. For many clinical applications, e.g., surgical navigation, temporally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhong Liu

Stereo matching is a key technique for metric depth estimation in computer vision and robotics. Real-world challenges like occlusion and non-texture hinder accurate disparity estimation from binocular matching cues. Recently, monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hualie Jiang , Zhiqiang Lou , Laiyan Ding , Rui Xu , Minglang Tan , Wenjie Jiang , Rui Huang

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

Self-supervised depth estimation algorithms rely heavily on frame-warping relationships, exhibiting substantial performance degradation when applied in challenging circumstances, such as low-visibility and nighttime scenarios with varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Madhu Vankadari , Samuel Hodgson , Sangyun Shin , Kaichen Zhou Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

The ability to accurately estimate depth information is crucial for many autonomous applications to recognize the surrounded environment and predict the depth of important objects. One of the most recently used techniques is monocular depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ahmed Zaitoon , Hossam El Din Abd El Munim , Hazem Abbas

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 in endoscopy videos can enable assistive and robotic surgery to obtain better coverage of the organ and detection of various health issues. Despite promising progress on mainstream, natural image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Akshay Paruchuri , Samuel Ehrenstein , Shuxian Wang , Inbar Fried , Stephen M. Pizer , Marc Niethammer , Roni Sengupta

Monocular depth estimation is a rudimentary task in robotic perception. Recently, with the development of more accurate and robust neural network models and different types of datasets, monocular depth estimation has significantly improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhichao Zheng , Henry Williams , Bruce A MacDonald

With the development of computational intelligence algorithms, unsupervised monocular depth and pose estimation framework, which is driven by warped photometric consistency, has shown great performance in the daytime scenario. While in some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Chaoqiang Zhao , Yang Tang , Qiyu Sun

Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jialei Xu , Yuanchao Bai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

In this paper, we explore the possibility of achieving a more accurate depth estimation by fusing monocular images and Radar points using a deep neural network. We give a comprehensive study of the fusion between RGB images and Radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Juan-Ting Lin , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Nighttime self-supervised monocular depth estimation has received increasing attention in recent years. However, using night images for self-supervision is unreliable because the photometric consistency assumption is usually violated in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Haolin Yang , Chaoqiang Zhao , Lu Sheng , Yang Tang