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Depth information provides valuable insights into the 3D structure especially the outline of objects, which can be utilized to improve the semantic segmentation tasks. However, a naive fusion of depth information can disrupt feature and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wei Sun , Yuan Li , Qixiang Ye , Jianbin Jiao , Yanzhao Zhou

Whether to attract viewer attention to a particular object, give the impression of depth or simply reproduce human-like scene perception, shallow depth of field images are used extensively by professional and amateur photographers alike. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Benjamin Busam , Matthieu Hog , Steven McDonagh , Gregory Slabaugh

Self-supervised multi-frame monocular depth estimation relies on the geometric consistency between successive frames under the assumption of a static scene. However, the presence of moving objects in dynamic scenes introduces inevitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Sungmin Woo , Wonjoon Lee , Woo Jin Kim , Dogyoon Lee , Sangyoun Lee

360{\deg} depth estimation is a challenging research problem due to the difficulty of finding a representation that both preserves global continuity and avoids distortion in spherical images. Existing methods attempt to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kun Huang , Fang-Lue Zhang , Neil Dodgson

Single-view depth estimation refers to the ability to derive three-dimensional information per pixel from a single two-dimensional image. Single-view depth estimation is an ill-posed problem because there are multiple depth solutions that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Javier Rodriguez-Puigvert

We tackle the problem of automatically reconstructing a complete 3D model of a scene from a single RGB image. This challenging task requires inferring the shape of both visible and occluded surfaces. Our approach utilizes viewer-centered,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Daeyun Shin , Zhile Ren , Erik B. Sudderth , Charless C. Fowlkes

Humans rely on their visual and tactile senses to develop a comprehensive 3D understanding of their physical environment. Recently, there has been a growing interest in exploring and manipulating objects using data-driven approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Mauro Comi , Yijiong Lin , Alex Church , Alessio Tonioni , Laurence Aitchison , Nathan F. Lepora

Monocular and stereo depth estimation offer complementary strengths: monocular methods capture rich contextual priors but lack geometric precision, while stereo approaches leverage epipolar geometry yet struggle with ambiguities such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Tongfan Guan , Jiaxin Guo , Chen Wang , Yun-Hui Liu

Disparity/depth estimation from sequences of stereo images is an important element in 3D vision. Owing to occlusions, imperfect settings and homogeneous luminance, accurate estimate of depth remains a challenging problem. Targetting view…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Majid Geravand , David Braendler , David R. Bull

Over the past few years, monocular depth estimation and completion have been paid more and more attention from the computer vision community because of their widespread applications. In this paper, we introduce novel physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shuwei Shao , Zhongcai Pei , Weihai Chen , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has widely applicable but remains highly challenging due to the inherently ill-posed nature of reconstructing 3D scenes from single 2D images. Modern Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gongshu Wang , Zhirui Wang , Kan Yang

Real-time estimation of actual object depth is an essential module for various autonomous system tasks such as 3D reconstruction, scene understanding and condition assessment. During the last decade of machine learning, extensive deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Christoph Angermann , Matthias Schwab , Markus Haltmeier , Christian Laubichler , Steinbjörn Jónsson

A shallow depth-of-field image keeps the subject in focus, and the foreground and background contexts blurred. This effect requires much larger lens apertures than those of smartphone cameras. Conventional methods acquire RGB-D images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Meng-Lin Wu , Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana , Hau Hwang

Panoramic image enables deeper understanding and more holistic perception of $360^\circ$ surrounding environment, which can naturally encode enriched scene context information compared to standard perspective image. Previous work has made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yuan Dong , Chuan Fang , Liefeng Bo , Zilong Dong , Ping Tan

Accurate surround-view depth estimation provides a competitive alternative to laser-based sensors and is essential for 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving. While empirical studies have proposed various approaches that primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Weimin Liu , Wenjun Wang , Joshua H. Meng

With the advent of deep learning, estimating depth from a single RGB image has recently received a lot of attention, being capable of empowering many different applications ranging from path planning for robotics to computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Enis Simsar , Evin Pınar Örnek , Fabian Manhardt , Helisa Dhamo , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Monocular metric depth estimation has achieved strong progress with large-scale training and universal-camera modeling, yet robust deployment across diverse camera settings, such as perspective, fisheye, and panoramic images, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jie Zhu , Girish Chandar Ganesan , Xiaoming Liu

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

In this paper, a self-supervised model that simultaneously predicts a sequence of future frames from video-input with a novel spatial-temporal attention (ST) network is proposed. The ST transformer network allows constraining both temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Houssem Boulahbal , Adrian Voicila , Andrew Comport

Accurate volume estimation of objects from visual data is a long-standing challenge in computer vision with significant applications in robotics, logistics, and smart health. Existing methods often rely on complex 3D reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Gautham Vinod , Bruce Coburn , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Fengqing Zhu