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Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a challenging task in computer vision, often hindered by the cost and scarcity of high-quality labeled datasets. We tackle this challenge using auxiliary datasets from related vision tasks for an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alessio Quercia , Erenus Yildiz , Zhuo Cao , Kai Krajsek , Abigail Morrison , Ira Assent , Hanno Scharr

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical component of many medical tracking and mapping algorithms, particularly from endoscopic or laparoscopic video. However, because ground truth depth maps cannot be acquired from real patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 John J. Han , Ayberk Acar , Callahan Henry , Jie Ying Wu

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to infer per-pixel depth from a single RGB image. While diffusion models have advanced MDE with impressive generalization, they often exhibit limitations in accurately reconstructing far-range regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mingxia Zhan , Li Zhang , Yingjie Wang , Xiaomeng Chu , Beibei Wang , Yanyong Zhang

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) has gained popularity for obtaining depth predictions directly from videos. However, these methods often produce scale invariant results, unless additional training signals are provided.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Gasser Elazab , Torben Gräber , Michael Unterreiner , Olaf Hellwich

This paper presents a novel monocular depth estimation method, named ECFNet, for estimating high-quality monocular depth with clear edges and valid overall structure from a single RGB image. We make a thorough inquiry about the key factor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Pengzhi Li , Yikang Ding , Haohan Wang , Chengshuai Tang , Zhiheng Li

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

Explainable artificial intelligence is increasingly employed to understand the decision-making process of deep learning models and create trustworthiness in their adoption. However, the explainability of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lorenzo Cirillo , Claudio Schiavella , Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini

Estimating depth from a monocular image is an ill-posed problem: when the camera projects a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, depth information is inherently and permanently lost. Nevertheless, recent work has shown impressive results in estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jagpreet Chawla , Nikhil Thakurdesai , Anuj Godase , Md Reza , David Crandall , Soon-Heung Jung

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is performed to produce 3D information that can be used in downstream tasks such as those related to on-board perception for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) or driver assistance. Therefore, a relevant arising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Akhil Gurram , Antonio M. Lopez

We present two versatile methods to generally enhance self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) models. The high generalizability of our methods is achieved by solving the fundamental and ubiquitous problems in photometric loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xingyu Chen , Thomas H. Li , Ruonan Zhang , Ge Li

As an essential component for many autonomous driving and robotic activities such as ego-motion estimation, obstacle avoidance and scene understanding, monocular depth estimation (MDE) has attracted great attention from the computer vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

Video depth estimation is crucial in various applications, such as scene reconstruction and augmented reality. In contrast to the naive method of estimating depths from images, a more sophisticated approach uses temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Elena Kosheleva , Sunil Jaiswal , Faranak Shamsafar , Noshaba Cheema , Klaus Illgner-Fehns , Philipp Slusallek

Estimating a scene's depth to achieve collision avoidance against moving pedestrians is a crucial and fundamental problem in the robotic field. This paper proposes a novel, low complexity network architecture for fast and accurate human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shan An , Fangru Zhou , Mei Yang , Haogang Zhu , Changhong Fu , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas

In the last year, universal monocular metric depth estimation (universal MMDE) has gained considerable attention, serving as the foundation model for various multimedia tasks, such as video and image editing. Nonetheless, current approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Yihao Liu , Feng Xue , Anlong Ming , Mingshuai Zhao , Huadong Ma , Nicu Sebe

Although deep neural networks have been widely applied to computer vision problems, extending them into multiview depth estimation is non-trivial. In this paper, we present MVDepthNet, a convolutional network to solve the depth estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

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

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

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

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

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