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Although considerable advancements have been attained in self-supervised depth estimation from monocular videos, most existing methods often treat all objects in a video as static entities, which however violates the dynamic nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xiuzhe Wu , Xiaoyang Lyu , Qihao Huang , Yong Liu , Yang Wu , Ying Shan , Xiaojuan Qi

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

The lack of labeled datasets in 3D vision for surgical scenes inhibits the development of robust 3D reconstruction algorithms in the medical domain. Despite the popularity of Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting in the general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 John J. Han , Jie Ying Wu

We propose a self-supervised monocular depth estimation network tailored for endoscopic scenes, aiming to infer depth within the gastrointestinal tract from monocular images. Existing methods, though accurate, typically assume consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zebo Huang , Yinghui Wang

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical task to guide autonomous medical robots. However, obtaining absolute (metric) depth from an endoscopy camera in surgical scenes is difficult, which limits supervised learning of depth on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hao Li , Daiwei Lu , Jesse d'Almeida , Dilara Isik , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Nick DiSanto , Ayberk Acar , Susheela Sharma , Jie Ying Wu , Robert J. Webster , Ipek Oguz

Reconstructing surgical scenes from monocular endoscopic video is critical for advancing robotic-assisted surgery. However, the application of state-of-the-art general-purpose reconstruction models is constrained by two key challenges: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kaiyuan Xu , Fangzhou Hong , Daniel Elson , Baoru Huang

Depth and ego-motion estimations are essential for the localization and navigation of autonomous robots and autonomous driving. Recent studies make it possible to learn the per-pixel depth and ego-motion from the unlabeled monocular video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Jiquan Zhong , Shijie Zhao , Wenhua Wu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

We aim to track the endoscope location inside the surgical scene and provide 3D reconstruction, in real-time, from the sole input of the image sequence captured by the monocular endoscope. This information offers new possibilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Nader Mahmoud , Iñigo Cirauqui , Alexandre Hostettler , Christophe Doignon , Luc Soler , Jacques Marescaux , J. M. M. Montiel

Monocular depth and pose estimation play an important role in the development of colonoscopy-assisted navigation, as they enable improved screening by reducing blind spots, minimizing the risk of missed or recurrent lesions, and lowering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xinwei Ju , Rema Daher , Danail Stoyanov , Sophia Bano , Francisco Vasconcelos

Robotic surgery has become a powerful tool for performing minimally invasive procedures, providing advantages in dexterity, precision, and 3D vision, over traditional surgery. One popular robotic system is the da Vinci surgical platform,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Menglong Ye , Edward Johns , Ankur Handa , Lin Zhang , Philip Pratt , Guang-Zhong Yang

Dense 3D reconstruction and ego-motion estimation are key challenges in autonomous driving and robotics. Compared to the complex, multi-modal systems deployed today, multi-camera systems provide a simpler, low-cost alternative. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Aron Schmied , Tobias Fischer , Martin Danelljan , Marc Pollefeys , Fisher Yu

Fluoroscopic imaging that captures X-ray images at video framerates is advantageous for guiding catheter insertions by vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists. Visualizing the dynamical movements non-invasively allows complex…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Jacky C. K. Chow , Steven K. Boyd , Derek D. Lichti , Janet L. Ronsky

In robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, accurate 3D reconstruction from endoscopic video is vital for downstream tasks and improved outcomes. However, endoscopic scenarios present unique challenges, including photometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Taoyu Wu , Yiyi Miao , Jiaxin Guo , Ziyan Chen , Sihang Zhao , Zhuoxiao Li , Zhe Tang , Baoru Huang , Limin Yu

One of the key elements of reconstructing a 3D mesh from a monocular video is generating every frame's depth map. However, in the application of colonoscopy video reconstruction, producing good-quality depth estimation is challenging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Yubo Zhang , Jan-Michael Frahm , Samuel Ehrenstein , Sarah K. McGill , Julian G. Rosenman , Shuxian Wang , Stephen M. Pizer

Monocular depth estimation is crucial for tracking and reconstruction algorithms, particularly in the context of surgical videos. However, the inherent challenges in directly obtaining ground truth depth maps during surgery render…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ange Lou , Yamin Li , Yike Zhang , Jack Noble

Endoscopic surgery is the gold standard for robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery, offering significant advantages in early disease detection and precise interventions. However, the complexity of surgical scenes, characterized by high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Guankun Wang , Rui Tang , Mengya Xu , Long Bai , Huxin Gao , Hongliang Ren

3D reconstruction of depth and motion from monocular video in dynamic environments is a highly ill-posed problem due to scale ambiguities when projecting to the 2D image domain. In this work, we investigate the performance of the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Christian Homeyer , Oliver Lange , Christoph Schnörr

This paper tackles the challenges of self-supervised monocular depth estimation in indoor scenes caused by large rotation between frames and low texture. We ease the learning process by obtaining coarse camera poses from monocular sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Chaoqiang Zhao , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Lei Zhou , Qiyu Sun , Yang Tang , Stefano Mattoccia

Monocular depth estimation in endoscopy videos can enable assistive and robotic surgery to obtain better coverage of the organ and detection of various health issues. Despite promising progress on mainstream, natural image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Akshay Paruchuri , Samuel Ehrenstein , Shuxian Wang , Inbar Fried , Stephen M. Pizer , Marc Niethammer , Roni Sengupta

3D scene reconstruction is a long-standing vision task. Existing approaches can be categorized into geometry-based and learning-based methods. The former leverages multi-view geometry but can face catastrophic failures due to the reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Guangkai Xu , Wei Yin , Hao Chen , Chunhua Shen , Kai Cheng , Feng Zhao