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In this paper, we propose a novel method for monocular depth estimation in dynamic scenes. We first explore the arbitrariness of object's movement trajectory in dynamic scenes theoretically. To overcome the arbitrariness, we use assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kebin Peng , John Quarles , Kevin Desai

The advent of autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems necessitates continuous developments in computer vision for 3D scene understanding. Self-supervised monocular depth estimation, a method for pixel-wise distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Arnav Varma , Hemang Chawla , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Depth from a monocular video can enable billions of devices and robots with a single camera to see the world in 3D. In this paper, we present an approach with a differentiable flow-to-depth layer for video depth estimation. The model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Jiaxin Xie , Chenyang Lei , Zhuwen Li , Li Erran Li , Qifeng Chen

As an inherently ill-posed problem, depth estimation from single images is the most challenging part of monocular 3D object detection (M3OD). Many existing methods rely on preconceived assumptions to bridge the missing spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Zhuoling Li , Zhan Qu , Yang Zhou , Jianzhuang Liu , Haoqian Wang , Lihui Jiang

Despite significant progress made in the past few years, challenges remain for depth estimation using a single monocular image. First, it is nontrivial to train a metric-depth prediction model that can generalize well to diverse scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

We present a novel method to train machine learning algorithms to estimate scene depths from a single image, by using the information provided by a camera's aperture as supervision. Prior works use a depth sensor's outputs or images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Pratul P. Srinivasan , Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Ren Ng , Jonathan T. Barron

Existing monocular depth estimation methods have achieved excellent robustness in diverse scenes, but they can only retrieve affine-invariant depth, up to an unknown scale and shift. However, in some video-based scenarios such as video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Guangkai Xu , Wei Yin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen , Kai Cheng , Feng Wu , Feng Zhao

Nowadays, the majority of state of the art monocular depth estimation techniques are based on supervised deep learning models. However, collecting RGB images with associated depth maps is a very time consuming procedure. Therefore, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Andrea Pilzer , Stéphane Lathuilière , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Self-supervised depth estimation for indoor environments is more challenging than its outdoor counterpart in at least the following two aspects: (i) the depth range of indoor sequences varies a lot across different frames, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Pan Ji , Runze Li , Bir Bhanu , Yi Xu

Depth Estimation has wide reaching applications in the field of Computer vision such as target tracking, augmented reality, and self-driving cars. The goal of Monocular Depth Estimation is to predict the depth map, given a 2D monocular RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mayank Poddar , Akash Mishra , Mohit Kewlani , Haoyang Pei

Monocular depth estimation is a recurring subject in the field of computer vision. Its ability to describe scenes via a depth map while reducing the constraints related to the formulation of perspective geometry tends to favor its use.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Marc Blanchon , Désiré Sidibé , Olivier Morel , Ralph Seulin , Daniel Braun , Fabrice Meriaudeau

Depth completion, the technique of estimating a dense depth image from sparse depth measurements, has a variety of applications in robotics and autonomous driving. However, depth completion faces 3 main challenges: the irregularly spaced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Fangchang Ma , Guilherme Venturelli Cavalheiro , Sertac Karaman

Remarkable progress has been made in self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SS-MDE) by exploring cross-view consistency, e.g., photometric consistency and 3D point cloud consistency. However, they are very vulnerable to illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haimei Zhao , Jing Zhang , Zhuo Chen , Bo Yuan , Dacheng Tao

As a flexible passive 3D sensing means, unsupervised learning of depth from monocular videos is becoming an important research topic. It utilizes the photometric errors between the target view and the synthesized views from its adjacent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hualie Jiang , Laiyan Ding , Zhenglong Sun , Rui Huang

Accurate depth estimation is at the core of many applications in computer graphics, vision, and robotics. Current state-of-the-art monocular depth estimators, trained on extensive datasets, generalize well but lack 3D consistency needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , Bernhard Egger , Joachim Keinert , Marc Stamminger

In this paper, we address the problem of monocular depth estimation when only a limited number of training image-depth pairs are available. To achieve a high regression accuracy, the state-of-the-art estimation methods rely on CNNs trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Rongrong Ji , Ke Li , Yan Wang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Feng Guo , Xiaowei Guo , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Jiebo Luo

Learning single image depth estimation model from monocular video sequence is a very challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a novel training loss which enables us to include more images for supervision during the training process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zhenwei Luo

Dense depth estimation from a single image is a key problem in computer vision, with exciting applications in a multitude of robotic tasks. Initially viewed as a direct regression problem, requiring annotated labels as supervision at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Vitor Guizilini , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Sudeep Pillai , Adrien Gaidon

Depth estimation from images serves as the fundamental step of 3D perception for autonomous driving and is an economical alternative to expensive depth sensors like LiDAR. The temporal photometric constraints enables self-supervised depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yi Wei , Linqing Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Yongming Rao , Guan Huang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) aims to predict the dense depth map of a monocular image, by learning depth from RGB image sequences, eliminating the need for ground-truth depth labels. Although this approach simplifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Wei Peng , Minwoo Choi , Sunghoon Im