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Depth is a vital piece of information for autonomous vehicles to perceive obstacles. Due to the relatively low price and small size of monocular cameras, depth estimation from a single RGB image has attracted great interest in the research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

Mobile robots require accurate and robust depth measurements to understand and interact with the environment. While existing sensing modalities address this problem to some extent, recent research on monocular depth estimation has leveraged…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Marco Job , Thomas Stastny , Tim Kazik , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) plays a pivotal role in various computer vision applications, such as robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous driving. Despite recent advancements, existing methods often fail to meet key requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Andrii Litvynchuk , Ivan Livinsky , Anand Ravi , Nima Kalantari , Andrii Tsarov

Estimating depth from a single image represents an attractive alternative to more traditional approaches leveraging multiple cameras. In this field, deep learning yielded outstanding results at the cost of needing large amounts of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Lorenzo Andraghetti , Panteleimon Myriokefalitakis , Pier Luigi Dovesi , Belen Luque , Matteo Poggi , Alessandro Pieropan , Stefano Mattoccia

We study how autonomous robots can learn by themselves to improve their depth estimation capability. In particular, we investigate a self-supervised learning setup in which stereo vision depth estimates serve as targets for a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Diogo Martins , Kevin van Hecke , Guido de Croon

Underwater navigation presents several challenges, including unstructured unknown environments, lack of reliable localization systems (e.g., GPS), and poor visibility. Furthermore, good-quality obstacle detection sensors for underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Pengzhi Yang , Haowen Liu , Monika Roznere , Alberto Quattrini Li

Depth estimation is an active area of research in the field of computer vision, and has garnered significant interest due to its rising demand in a large number of applications ranging from robotics and unmanned aerial vehicles to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Linda Wang , Mahmoud Famouri , Alexander Wong

Supervised learning based methods for monocular depth estimation usually require large amounts of extensively annotated training data. In the case of aerial imagery, this ground truth is particularly difficult to acquire. Therefore, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Max Hermann , Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann , Stefan Hinz

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 a single 2D image is a challenging task due to the lack of stereo or multi-view data, which are typically required for depth perception. In state-of-the-art architectures, the main challenge is to efficiently capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Dabbrata Das , Argho Deb Das , Farhan Sadaf

The field of monocular depth estimation is continually evolving with the advent of numerous innovative models and extensions. However, research on monocular depth estimation methods specifically for underwater scenes remains limited,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wenxiang Gua , Lin Qia

Learning accurate depth is essential to multi-view 3D object detection. Recent approaches mainly learn depth from monocular images, which confront inherent difficulties due to the ill-posed nature of monocular depth learning. Instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zengran Wang , Chen Min , Zheng Ge , Yinhao Li , Zeming Li , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

Monocular depth estimation has recently progressed beyond ordinal depth to provide metric depth predictions. However, its reliability in underwater environments remains limited due to light attenuation and scattering, color distortion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zijie Cai , Christopher Metzler

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

Depth estimation from a single image is an active research topic in computer vision. The most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models, which rely on a large amount of dense and high-resolution (HR) ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Jialei Xu , Yuanchao Bai , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has seen significant progress in recent years, especially in outdoor environments. However, depth prediction results are not satisfying in indoor scenes where most of the existing data are captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Runze Li , Pan Ji , Yi Xu , Bir Bhanu

Monocular depth estimation using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has shown impressive performance in outdoor driving scenes. However, self-supervised learning of indoor depth from monocular sequences is quite challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Chao Fan , Zhenyu Yin , Yue Li , Feiqing Zhang

Monocular (relative or metric) depth estimation is a critical task for various applications, such as autonomous vehicles, augmented reality and image editing. In recent years, with the increasing availability of mobile devices, accurate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Mehmet Kerim Yucel , Valia Dimaridou , Anastasios Drosou , Albert Saà-Garriga

Depth estimation from a single image is an important task that can be applied to various fields in computer vision, and has grown rapidly with the development of convolutional neural networks. In this paper, we propose a novel structure and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Doyeon Kim , Woonghyun Ka , Pyungwhan Ahn , Donggyu Joo , Sehwan Chun , Junmo Kim

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