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Monocular depth estimation is an essential task for scene understanding. The underlying structure of objects and stuff in a complex scene is critical to recovering accurate and visually-pleasing depth maps. Global structure conveys scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Xiaotian Chen , Xuejin Chen , Zheng-Jun Zha

Leveraging the rich semantic features of vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP for monocular depth estimation tasks is a promising direction, yet often requires extensive fine-tuning or lacks geometric precision. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Reyhaneh Ahani Manghotay , Jie Liang

Monocular 3D object detection aims to predict the object location, dimension and orientation in 3D space alongside the object category given only a monocular image. It poses a great challenge due to its ill-posed property which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zheyuan Zhou , Liang Du , Xiaoqing Ye , Zhikang Zou , Xiao Tan , Li Zhang , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

Accurate monocular depth estimation is crucial for 3D scene understanding, but existing methods often blur depth at object boundaries, introducing spurious intermediate 3D points. While achieving sharp edges usually requires very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Aurélien Cecille , Stefan Duffner , Franck Davoine , Rémi Agier , Thibault Neveu

We present a novel approach for metric dense depth estimation based on the fusion of a single-view image and a sparse, noisy Radar point cloud. The direct fusion of heterogeneous Radar and image data, or their encodings, tends to yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Han Li , Yukai Ma , Yaqing Gu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

We present an algorithm for estimating consistent dense depth maps and camera poses from a monocular video. We integrate a learning-based depth prior, in the form of a convolutional neural network trained for single-image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Johannes Kopf , Xuejian Rong , Jia-Bin Huang

Using accurate depth priors in 3D Gaussian Splatting helps mitigate artifacts caused by sparse training data and textureless surfaces. However, acquiring accurate depth maps requires specialized acquisition systems. Foundation monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wenhui Xiao , Ethan Goan , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Leo Lebrat

Monocular 3D occupancy prediction, aiming to predict the occupancy and semantics within interesting regions of 3D scenes from only 2D images, has garnered increasing attention recently for its vital role in 3D scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xu Zhao , Pengju Zhang , Bo Liu , Yihong Wu

We propose a novel architecture for depth estimation from a single image. The architecture itself is based on the popular encoder-decoder architecture that is frequently used as a starting point for all dense regression tasks. We build on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Shariq Farooq Bhat , Ibraheem Alhashim , Peter Wonka

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation is an attractive solution that does not require hard-to-source depth labels for training. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently achieved great success in this task. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Chaoqiang Zhao , Youmin Zhang , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Xianda Guo , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Yang Tang , Stefano Mattoccia

Deep learning techniques have enabled rapid progress in monocular depth estimation, but their quality is limited by the ill-posed nature of the problem and the scarcity of high quality datasets. We estimate depth from a single camera by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Sameer Ansari , Jonathan T. Barron

We formulate monocular depth estimation using denoising diffusion models, inspired by their recent successes in high fidelity image generation. To that end, we introduce innovations to address problems arising due to noisy, incomplete depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Saurabh Saxena , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Monocular 3D lane detection aims to estimate the 3D position of lanes from frontal-view (FV) images. However, existing methods are fundamentally constrained by the inherent ambiguity of single-frame input, which leads to inaccurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Huan Zheng , Wencheng Han , Tianyi Yan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

Recently,3DGaussianSplattinghasshowngreatpotentialin visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). Existing methods have achieved encouraging results on RGB-D SLAM, but studies of the monocular case are still scarce. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Tian Lan , Qinwei Lin , Haoqian Wang

Monocular depth estimation is a challenging problem on which deep neural networks have demonstrated great potential. However, depth maps predicted by existing deep models usually lack fine-grained details due to the convolution operations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yaqiao Dai , Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Hongjun He , Kai Xu

While monocular depth estimation (MDE) is an important problem in computer vision, it is difficult due to the ambiguity that results from the compression of a 3D scene into only 2 dimensions. It is common practice in the field to treat it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Event cameras offer distinct advantages over conventional frame-based sensors, including microsecond-level temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low bandwidth. In this paper, we predict per-pixel depth distributions from monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Viktor Bergkvist , Felix Rydell , Per-Erik Forssén , David Gustafsson , Johan Rideg

We present a new learning-based method for multi-frame depth estimation from a color video, which is a fundamental problem in scene understanding, robot navigation or handheld 3D reconstruction. While recent learning-based methods estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Xiaoxiao Long , Lingjie Liu , Christian Theobalt , Wenping Wang

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of 3D reconstruction and plays a vital role in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, most current depth estimation networks rely on traditional convolutional neural networks, which are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bojian Li , Bo Liu , Xinning Yao , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

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