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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

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 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Beyond depth estimation from a single image, the monocular cue is useful in a broader range of depth inference applications and settings---such as when one can leverage other available depth cues for improved accuracy. Currently, different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Zhihao Xia , Patrick Sullivan , Ayan Chakrabarti

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been widely adopted in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. However, existing approaches often struggle to maintain temporal consistency in depth estimation across consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Leezy Han , Seunggyu Kim , Dongseok Shim , Hyeonbeom Lee

Monocular depth estimation, similar to other image-based tasks, is prone to erroneous predictions due to ambiguities in the image, for example, caused by dynamic objects or shadows. For this reason, pixel-wise uncertainty assessment is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Julia Hornauer , Amir El-Ghoussani , Vasileios Belagiannis

Monocular depth estimation, enabled by self-supervised learning, is a key technique for 3D perception in computer vision. However, it faces significant challenges in real-world scenarios, which encompass adverse weather variations, motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Runze Chen , Haiyong Luo , Fang Zhao , Jingze Yu , Yupeng Jia , Juan Wang , Xuepeng Ma

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental 3D vision problem with numerous applications such as 3D scene reconstruction, autonomous navigation, and AI content creation. However, robust and generalizable MDE remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yunpeng Bai , Qixing Huang

Self-supervised learning for monocular depth estimation is widely investigated as an alternative to supervised learning approach, that requires a lot of ground truths. Previous works have successfully improved the accuracy of depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Noriaki Hirose , Shun Taguchi , Keisuke Kawano , Satoshi Koide

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods are often either too computationally expensive or not accurate enough due to the trade-off between model complexity and inference performance. In this paper, we propose a lightweight network that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Hualie Jiang , Xiyue Guo , Yuan Gao , Xiangyong Lu , Tin Lun Lam

Estimating depth from single RGB images and videos is of widespread interest due to its applications in many areas, including autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, digital entertainment, and robotics. More than 500 deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Uchitha Rajapaksha , Ferdous Sohel , Hamid Laga , Dean Diepeveen , Mohammed Bennamoun

In monocular depth estimation, disturbances in the image context, like moving objects or reflecting materials, can easily lead to erroneous predictions. For that reason, uncertainty estimates for each pixel are necessary, in particular for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Julia Hornauer , Vasileios Belagiannis

Depth estimation (DE) provides spatial information about a scene and enables tasks such as 3D reconstruction, object detection, and scene understanding. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in using deep learning (DL)-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Ali Rohan , Md Junayed Hasan , Andrei Petrovski

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

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 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

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) typically produces depth estimations that are defined up to an unknown scale or shift. When only sparse metric anchors are available, recovering accurate metric depth becomes challenging yet necessary for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuanyan Li , Matthias Althoff

Monocular depth estimation is challenging due to its inherent ambiguity and ill-posed nature, yet it is quite important to many applications. While recent works achieve limited accuracy by designing increasingly complicated networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zizhang Wu , Zhuozheng Li , Zhi-Gang Fan , Yunzhe Wu , Xiaoquan Wang , Rui Tang , Jian Pu

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a fundamental task in many applications such as scene understanding and reconstruction. However, most of the existing methods rely on accurately labeled datasets. A weakly-supervised framework based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Fang Gao , Jiabao Wang , Jun Yu , Yaoxiong Wang , Feng Shuang

Depth estimation is a fundamental knowledge for autonomous systems that need to assess their own state and perceive the surrounding environment. Deep learning algorithms for depth estimation have gained significant interest in recent years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 L. Papa , P. Russo , I. Amerini

Monocular depth estimation has been increasingly adopted in robotics and autonomous driving for its ability to infer scene geometry from a single camera. In self-supervised monocular depth estimation frameworks, the network jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tae-Wook Um , Ki-Hyeon Kim , Hyun-Duck Choi , Hyo-Sung Ahn