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Self-supervised monocular depth estimation networks are trained to predict scene depth using nearby frames as a supervision signal during training. However, for many applications, sequence information in the form of video frames is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jamie Watson , Oisin Mac Aodha , Victor Prisacariu , Gabriel Brostow , Michael Firman

Monocular depth estimation has become one of the most studied applications in computer vision, where the most accurate approaches are based on fully supervised learning models. However, the acquisition of accurate and large ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Adrian Johnston , Gustavo Carneiro

We introduce MonSter++, a geometric foundation model for multi-view depth estimation, unifying rectified stereo matching and unrectified multi-view stereo. Both tasks fundamentally recover metric depth from correspondence search and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Junda Cheng , Wenjing Liao , Zhipeng Cai , Longliang Liu , Gangwei Xu , Xianqi Wang , Yuzhou Wang , Zikang Yuan , Yong Deng , Jinliang Zang , Yangyang Shi , Jinhui Tang , Xin Yang

We present a self-supervised approach to training convolutional neural networks for dense depth estimation from monocular endoscopy data without a priori modeling of anatomy or shading. Our method only requires sequential data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xingtong Liu , Ayushi Sinha , Mathias Unberath , Masaru Ishii , Gregory Hager , Russell H. Taylor , Austin Reiter

Monocular image-based 3D perception has become an active research area in recent years owing to its applications in autonomous driving. Approaches to monocular 3D perception including detection and tracking, however, often yield inferior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Longlong Jing , Ruichi Yu , Henrik Kretzschmar , Kang Li , Charles R. Qi , Hang Zhao , Alper Ayvaci , Xu Chen , Dillon Cower , Yingwei Li , Yurong You , Han Deng , Congcong Li , Dragomir Anguelov

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

We formulate monocular depth estimation using denoising diffusion models, inspired by their recent successes in high fidelity image generation. To that end, we introduce innovations to address problems arising due to noisy, incomplete depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Saurabh Saxena , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

Continuum robots are promising candidates for interactive tasks in medical and industrial applications due to their unique shape, compliance, and miniaturization capability. Accurate and real-time shape sensing is essential for such tasks…

In this paper, we present a fast monocular depth estimation method for enabling 3D perception capabilities of low-cost underwater robots. We formulate a novel end-to-end deep visual learning pipeline named UDepth, which incorporates domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Boxiao Yu , Jiayi Wu , Md Jahidul Islam

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

Unsupervised depth estimation from a single image is a very attractive technique with several implications in robotic, autonomous navigation, augmented reality and so on. This topic represents a very challenging task and the advent of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Matteo Poggi , Filippo Aleotti , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia

Self-supervised learning for monocular depth estimation is widely investigated as an alternative to supervised learning approach, that requires a lot of ground truths. Previous works have successfully improved the accuracy of depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Noriaki Hirose , Shun Taguchi , Keisuke Kawano , Satoshi Koide

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

Depth estimation plays an important role in the robotic perception system. Self-supervised monocular paradigm has gained significant attention since it can free training from the reliance on depth annotations. Despite recent advancements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Jinfeng Liu , Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been widely adopted in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. However, existing approaches often struggle to maintain temporal consistency in depth estimation across consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Leezy Han , Seunggyu Kim , Dongseok Shim , Hyeonbeom Lee

Unsupervised methods have showed promising results on monocular depth estimation. However, the training data must be captured in scenes without moving objects. To push the envelope of accuracy, recent methods tend to increase their model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Tak-Wai Hui

Current self-supervised methods for monocular depth estimation are largely based on deeply nested convolutional networks that leverage stereo image pairs or monocular sequences during a training phase. However, they often exhibit inaccurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jaehoon Cho , Dongbo Min , Youngjung Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

There have been attempts to detect 3D objects by fusion of stereo camera images and LiDAR sensor data or using LiDAR for pre-training and only monocular images for testing, but there have been less attempts to use only monocular image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Curie Kim , Ue-Hwan Kim , Jong-Hwan Kim

Learning to predict scene depth from RGB inputs is a challenging task both for indoor and outdoor robot navigation. In this work we address unsupervised learning of scene depth and robot ego-motion where supervision is provided by monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Vincent Casser , Soeren Pirk , Reza Mahjourian , Anelia Angelova

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely investigated to estimate depth images and relative poses from RGB images. This framework is attractive for researchers because the depth and pose networks can be trained from just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Noriaki Hirose , Kosuke Tahara