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This work presents the Large Depth Completion Model (LDCM), a simple, effective, and robust framework for single-view metric depth estimation with sparse observations. Without relying on complex architectural designs, LDCM generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhu Yu , Zhengyi Zhao , Runmin Zhang , Lingteng Qiu , Kejie Qiu , Yisheng He , Siyu Zhu , Zilong Dong , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

In recent years, the emergence of foundation models for depth prediction has led to remarkable progress, particularly in zero-shot monocular depth estimation. These models generate impressive depth predictions; however, their outputs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rizhao Fan , Tianfang Ma , Zhigen Li , Ning An , Jian Cheng

We propose a novel plug-and-play (PnP) module for improving depth prediction with taking arbitrary patterns of sparse depths as input. Given any pre-trained depth prediction model, our PnP module updates the intermediate feature map such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-12 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Fu-En Wang , Juan-Ting Lin , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu , Min Sun

Dense depth cues are important and have wide applications in various computer vision tasks. In autonomous driving, LIDAR sensors are adopted to acquire depth measurements around the vehicle to perceive the surrounding environments. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Zixuan Huang , Junming Fan , Shenggan Cheng , Shuai Yi , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Robust three-dimensional scene understanding is now an ever-growing area of research highly relevant in many real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotic navigation. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Deep learning has led to remarkable strides in scene understanding with panoptic segmentation emerging as a key holistic scene interpretation task. However, the performance of panoptic segmentation is severely impacted in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Rohit Mohan , Kiran Kumaraswamy , Juana Valeria Hurtado , Kürsat Petek , Abhinav Valada

Depth completion, inferring dense depth maps from sparse measurements, is crucial for robust 3D perception. Although deep learning based methods have made tremendous progress in this problem, these models cannot generalize well across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Haotian Wang , Meng Yang , Xinhu Zheng , Gang Hua

We consider the problem of dense depth prediction from a sparse set of depth measurements and a single RGB image. Since depth estimation from monocular images alone is inherently ambiguous and unreliable, to attain a higher level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangchang Ma , Sertac Karaman

Sparse depth measurements are widely available in many applications such as augmented reality, visual inertial odometry and robots equipped with low cost depth sensors. Although such sparse depth samples work well for certain applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Bing Zhou , Matias Aiskovich , Sinem Guven

Depth completion deals with the problem of recovering dense depth maps from sparse ones, where color images are often used to facilitate this task. Recent approaches mainly focus on image guided learning frameworks to predict dense depth.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Zhiqiang Yan , Kun Wang , Xiang Li , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Accurate three-dimensional perception is essential for modern industrial robotic systems that perform manipulation, inspection, and navigation tasks. RGB-D and stereo vision sensors are widely used for this purpose, but the depth maps they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tony Salloom , Dandi Zhou , Xinhai Sun

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial when deploying deep neural networks in the real world to ensure the reliability and safety of their applications. One main challenge in OOD detection is that neural network models often produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jinlun Ye , Zhuohao Sun , Yiqiao Qiu , Qiu Li , Zhijun Tan , Ruixuan Wang

Recovering a dense depth image from sparse LiDAR scans is a challenging task. Despite the popularity of color-guided methods for sparse-to-dense depth completion, they treated pixels equally during optimization, ignoring the uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Yufan Zhu , Weisheng Dong , Leida Li , Jinjian Wu , Xin Li , Guangming Shi

The basic framework of depth completion is to predict a pixel-wise dense depth map using very sparse input data. In this paper, we try to solve this problem in a more effective way, by reformulating the regression-based depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Byeong-Uk Lee , Kyunghyun Lee , In So Kweon

Deep learning has been demonstrated with tremendous success in recent years. Despite so, its performance in practice often degenerates drastically when encountering out-of-distribution (OoD) data, i.e. training and test data are sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Haoyue Bai

Image-guided depth completion aims to generate dense depth maps with sparse depth measurements and corresponding RGB images. Currently, spatial propagation networks (SPNs) are the most popular affinity-based methods in depth completion, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yuankai Lin , Tao Cheng , Qi Zhong , Wending Zhou , Hua Yang

It is widely believed that sparse supervision is worse than dense supervision in the field of depth completion, but the underlying reasons for this are rarely discussed. To this end, we revisit the task of radar-camera depth completion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Huadong Li , Minhao Jing , Jiajun Liang , Haoqiang Fan , Renhe Ji

The main function of depth completion is to compensate for an insufficient and unpredictable number of sparse depth measurements of hardware sensors. However, existing research on depth completion assumes that the sparsity -- the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Jinyoung Jun , Jae-Han Lee , Chang-Su Kim

Depth completion is the task of generating a dense depth map given an image and a sparse depth map as inputs. It has important applications in various downstream tasks. In this paper, we present OGNI-DC, a novel framework for depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yiming Zuo , Jia Deng

Depth Completion can produce a dense depth map from a sparse input and provide a more complete 3D description of the environment. Despite great progress made in depth completion, the sparsity of the input and low density of the ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jiaqi Gu , Zhiyu Xiang , Yuwen Ye , Lingxuan Wang