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Depth estimation from a single image represents a fascinating, yet challenging problem with countless applications. Recent works proved that this task could be learned without direct supervision from ground truth labels leveraging image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Fabio Tosi , Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

Purpose: Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is vital for scene understanding in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, endoscopic video sequences are often contaminated by smoke, specular reflections, blur, and occlusions, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Muhammad Asad , Emanuele Colleoni , Pritesh Mehta , Nicolas Toussaint , Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla , Maria Robu , Faisal Bashir , Rahim Mohammadi , Imanol Luengo , Danail Stoyanov

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

Learning based methods have shown very promising results for the task of depth estimation in single images. However, most existing approaches treat depth prediction as a supervised regression problem and as a result, require vast quantities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Gabriel J. Brostow

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

Monocular depth prediction plays a crucial role in understanding 3D scene geometry. Although recent methods have achieved impressive progress in evaluation metrics such as the pixel-wise relative error, most methods neglect the geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Wei Yin , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen , Youliang Yan

Monocular depth estimation has drawn widespread attention from the vision community due to its broad applications. In this paper, we propose a novel physics (geometry)-driven deep learning framework for monocular depth estimation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

Recent techniques in self-supervised monocular depth estimation are approaching the performance of supervised methods, but operate in low resolution only. We show that high resolution is key towards high-fidelity self-supervised monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Sudeep Pillai , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

Previous monocular depth estimation methods take a single view and directly regress the expected results. Though recent advances are made by applying geometrically inspired loss functions during training, the inference procedure does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yue Luo , Jimmy Ren , Mude Lin , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Hongsheng Li , Liang Lin

Monocular depth estimation is a challenging task in complex compositions depicting multiple objects of diverse scales. Albeit the recent great progress thanks to the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the state-of-the-art monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Mingyi He

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

Using accurate depth priors in 3D Gaussian Splatting helps mitigate artifacts caused by sparse training data and textureless surfaces. However, acquiring accurate depth maps requires specialized acquisition systems. Foundation monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Wenhui Xiao , Ethan Goan , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes , Leo Lebrat

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) has gained attention in the field of deep learning as it estimates depth without requiring ground truth depth maps. This approach typically uses a photometric consistency loss between a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Minwoo Choi , Kiljoon Han , Wonjoon Choi , Mingyu Shin , Sunghoon Im

Estimating depth from a single image is a challenging visual task. Compared to relative depth estimation, metric depth estimation attracts more attention due to its practical physical significance and critical applications in real-life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ruijie Zhu , Chuxin Wang , Ziyang Song , Li Liu , Tianzhu Zhang , Yongdong Zhang

We present a generalised self-supervised learning approach for monocular estimation of the real depth across scenes with diverse depth ranges from 1--100s of meters. Existing supervised methods for monocular depth estimation require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Mertalp Ocal , Armin Mustafa

Depth information is the foundation of perception, essential for autonomous driving, robotics, and other source-constrained applications. Promptly obtaining accurate and efficient depth information allows for a rapid response in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Zhang , Rabab Abdelfattah , Yuqi Song , Samuel A. Dauchert , Xiaofeng wang

360{\deg} cameras can capture complete environments in a single shot, which makes 360{\deg} imagery alluring in many computer vision tasks. However, monocular depth estimation remains a challenge for 360{\deg} data, particularly for high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Manuel Rey-Area , Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt

The recent development of \emph{foundation models} for monocular depth estimation such as Depth Anything paved the way to zero-shot monocular depth estimation. Since it returns an affine-invariant disparity map, the favored technique to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rémi Marsal , Alexandre Chapoutot , Philippe Xu , David Filliat

The self-supervised learning of depth and pose from monocular sequences provides an attractive solution by using the photometric consistency of nearby frames as it depends much less on the ground-truth data. In this paper, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tianwei Shen , Lei Zhou , Zixin Luo , Yao Yao , Shiwei Li , Jiahui Zhang , Tian Fang , Long Quan

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