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Accurate monocular depth estimation is a fundamental component of vision-based perception systems in intelligent transportation applications. Despite recent progress, unsupervised monocular approaches still suffer from significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yufan Zhu , Chongzhi Ran , Mingtao Feng , Le Dong , Weisheng Dong , Antonio M. López

Monocular depth estimation in the wild inherently predicts depth up to an unknown scale. To resolve scale ambiguity issue, we present a learning algorithm that leverages monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

We present a foundation model for zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation. Our model, Depth Pro, synthesizes high-resolution depth maps with unparalleled sharpness and high-frequency details. The predictions are metric, with absolute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Aleksei Bochkovskii , Amaël Delaunoy , Hugo Germain , Marcel Santos , Yichao Zhou , Stephan R. Richter , Vladlen Koltun

Depth perception is essential for a robot's spatial and geometric understanding of its environment, with many tasks traditionally relying on hardware-based depth sensors like RGB-D or stereo cameras. However, these sensors face practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Soofiyan Atar , Yuheng Zhi , Florian Richter , Michael Yip

Underwater stereo depth estimation provides accurate 3D geometry for robotics tasks such as navigation, inspection, and mapping, offering metric depth from low-cost passive cameras while avoiding the scale ambiguity of monocular methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhengri Wu , Yiran Wang , Yu Wen , Zeyu Zhang , Biao Wu , Hao Tang

Multi-view stereo depth estimation based on cost volume usually works better than self-supervised monocular depth estimation except for moving objects and low-textured surfaces. So in this paper, we propose a multi-frame depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zhuofei Huang , Jianlin Liu , Shang Xu , Ying Chen , Yong Liu

Real-time, high-fidelity monocular depth estimation from remote sensing imagery is crucial for numerous applications, yet existing methods face a stark trade-off between accuracy and efficiency. Although using Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ruizhi Wang , Weihan Li , Zunlei Feng , Haofei Zhang , Mingli Song , Jiayu Wang , Jie Song , Li Sun

This paper presents MonoRelief V2, an end-to-end model designed for directly recovering 2.5D reliefs from single images under complex material and illumination variations. In contrast to its predecessor, MonoRelief V1 [1], which was solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Yu-Wei Zhang , Tongju Han , Lipeng Gao , Mingqiang Wei , Hui Liu , Changbao Li , Caiming Zhang

Passive depth estimation is among the most long-studied fields in computer vision. The most common methods for passive depth estimation are either a stereo or a monocular system. Using the former requires an accurate calibration process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Yotam Gil , Shay Elmalem , Harel Haim , Emanuel Marom , Raja Giryes

Monocular depth estimation has been extensively explored based on deep learning, yet its accuracy and generalization ability still lag far behind the stereo-based methods. To tackle this, a few recent studies have proposed to supervise the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Kyeongseob Song , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Deep learning techniques have enabled rapid progress in monocular depth estimation, but their quality is limited by the ill-posed nature of the problem and the scarcity of high quality datasets. We estimate depth from a single camera by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Rahul Garg , Neal Wadhwa , Sameer Ansari , Jonathan T. Barron

We present a novel monocular localization framework by jointly training deep learning-based depth prediction and Bayesian filtering-based pose reasoning. The proposed cross-modal framework significantly outperforms deep learning-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Priyesh Shukla , Sureshkumar S. , Alex C. Stutts , Sathya Ravi , Theja Tulabandhula , Amit R. Trivedi

Unsupervised deep learning methods have shown promising performance for single-image depth estimation. Since most of these methods use binocular stereo pairs for self-supervision, the depth range is generally limited. Small-baseline stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Saad Imran , Muhammad Umar Karim Khan , Sikander Bin Mukarram , Chong-Min Kyung

There has been tremendous research progress in estimating the depth of a scene from a monocular camera image. Existing methods for single-image depth prediction are exclusively based on deep neural networks, and their training can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Ali Jahani Amiri , Shing Yan Loo , Hong Zhang

UAVs have become an essential photogrammetric measurement as they are affordable, easily accessible and versatile. Aerial images captured from UAVs have applications in small and large scale texture mapping, 3D modelling, object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Logambal Madhuanand , Francesco Nex , Michael Ying Yang

Monocular depth estimation aims at predicting depth from a single image or video. Recently, self-supervised methods draw much attention since they are free of depth annotations and achieve impressive performance on several daytime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Kun Wang , Zhenyu Zhang , Zhiqiang Yan , Xiang Li , Baobei Xu , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Self-supervised deep learning methods have leveraged stereo images for training monocular depth estimation. Although these methods show strong results on outdoor datasets such as KITTI, they do not match performance of supervised methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Benjamin Keltjens , Tom van Dijk , Guido de Croon

Monocular depth estimation aims at estimating a pixelwise depth map for a single image, which has wide applications in scene understanding and autonomous driving. Existing supervised and unsupervised methods face great challenges.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Xiaoyang Guo , Hongsheng Li , Shuai Yi , Jimmy Ren , Xiaogang Wang

With an unprecedented increase in the number of agents and systems that aim to navigate the real world using visual cues and the rising impetus for 3D Vision Models, the importance of depth estimation is hard to understate. While supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Snehal Singh Tomar , Maitreya Suin , A. N. Rajagopalan

Estimating depth from RGB images can facilitate many computer vision tasks, such as indoor localization, height estimation, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Recently, monocular depth estimation has obtained great progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Qing Li , Jiasong Zhu , Jun Liu , Rui Cao , Qingquan Li , Sen Jia , Guoping Qiu