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Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great success on the task of monocular depth estimation. A fundamental yet unanswered question is: how CNNs can infer depth from a single image. Toward answering this question, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Junjie Hu , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

Monocular depth estimation (MDE), inferring pixel-level depths in single RGB images from a monocular camera, plays a crucial and pivotal role in a variety of AI applications demanding a three-dimensional (3D) topographical scene. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mingyu Sung , Hyeonmin Choe , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae Mo Kang

Applying single image Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) models to video sequences introduces significant temporal instability and flickering artifacts. We propose a novel approach that adapts any state-of-the-art image-based (depth)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ivan Sobko , Hayko Riemenschneider , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

With the rise of deep neural networks, the challenge of explaining the predictions of these networks has become increasingly recognized. While many methods for explaining the decisions of deep neural networks exist, there is currently no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ian E. Nielsen , Dimah Dera , Ghulam Rasool , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Ravi P. Ramachandran

This work explores the visual explanation for deep metric learning and its applications. As an important problem for learning representation, metric learning has attracted much attention recently, while the interpretation of such model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Sijie Zhu , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen

In stereo-matching knowledge distillation methods of the self-supervised monocular depth estimation, the stereo-matching network's knowledge is distilled into a monocular depth network through pseudo-depth maps. In these methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Woonghyun Ka , Jae Young Lee , Jaehyun Choi , Junmo Kim

Self-supervised depth estimation has made a great success in learning depth from unlabeled image sequences. While the mappings between image and pixel-wise depth are well-studied in current methods, the correlation between image, depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Rui Li , Xiantuo He , Danna Xue , Shaolin Su , Qing Mao , Yu Zhu , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Self-supervised learning is showing great promise for monocular depth estimation, using geometry as the only source of supervision. Depth networks are indeed capable of learning representations that relate visual appearance to 3D properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Vitor Guizilini , Rui Hou , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

As interpretability has been pointed out as the obstacle to the adoption of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), there is an increasing interest in solving a transparency issue to guarantee the impressive performance. In this paper, we demonstrate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Woo-Jeoung Nam , Seong-Whan Lee

Existing methods for scale-invariant monocular depth estimation (SI MDE) often struggle due to the complexity of the task, and limited and non-diverse datasets, hindering generalizability in real-world scenarios. This is while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 S. Mahdi H. Miangoleh , Mahesh Reddy , Yağız Aksoy

The increasing accuracy reports of metric monocular depth estimation models lead to a growing interest from the automotive domain. Current model evaluations do not provide deeper insights into the models' performance, also in relation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Tim Bader , Leon Eisemann , Adrian Pogorzelski , Namrata Jangid , Attila-Balazs Kis

Image classification models have achieved satisfactory performance on many datasets, sometimes even better than human. However, The model attention is unclear since the lack of interpretability. This paper investigates the fidelity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Wenjia Xu , Jiuniu Wang , Yang Wang , Guangluan Xu , Wei Dai , Yirong Wu

Over the past few years, self-supervised monocular depth estimation that does not depend on ground-truth during the training phase has received widespread attention. Most efforts focus on designing different types of network architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Dingchi Sun , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

Estimating depth from RGB images can facilitate many computer vision tasks, such as indoor localization, height estimation, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Recently, monocular depth estimation has obtained great progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Qing Li , Jiasong Zhu , Jun Liu , Rui Cao , Qingquan Li , Sen Jia , Guoping Qiu

We propose a novel algorithm for monocular depth estimation that decomposes a metric depth map into a normalized depth map and scale features. The proposed network is composed of a shared encoder and three decoders, called G-Net, N-Net, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jinyoung Jun , Jae-Han Lee , Chul Lee , Chang-Su Kim

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely studied, owing to its practical importance and recent promising improvements. However, most works suffer from limited supervision of photometric consistency, especially in weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Hyunyoung Jung , Eunhyeok Park , Sungjoo Yoo

Monocular depth estimation is a highly challenging problem that is often addressed with deep neural networks. While these are able to use recognition of image features to predict reasonably looking depth maps the result often has low metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Patrik Persson , Linn Öström , Carl Olsson

Deep neural networks for medical image diagnosis often achieve high predictive accuracy while relying on spurious or clinically irrelevant visual cues, limiting their trustworthiness in practice. Post-hoc explanation methods are widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zubair Faruqui , Rahul Dubey

Monocular depth estimation from RGB images plays a pivotal role in 3D vision. However, its accuracy can deteriorate in challenging environments such as nighttime or adverse weather conditions. While long-wave infrared cameras offer stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jialei Xu , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Kui Jiang , Rui Li , Kai Cheng , Xiangyang Ji

Traditional monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) systems struggle in low-texture environments where sparse visual features are insufficient for accurate pose estimation. To address this, dense Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Arda Alniak , Sinan Kalkan , Mustafa Mert Ankarali , Afsar Saranli , Abdullah Aydin Alatan