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Monocular depth estimation and defocus estimation are two fundamental tasks in computer vision. Most existing methods treat depth estimation and defocus estimation as two separate tasks, ignoring the strong connection between them. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Renzhi He , Hualin Hong , Boya Fu , Fei Liu

Monocular depth estimation from RGB images plays a pivotal role in 3D vision. However, its accuracy can deteriorate in challenging environments such as nighttime or adverse weather conditions. While long-wave infrared cameras offer stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jialei Xu , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Kui Jiang , Rui Li , Kai Cheng , Xiangyang Ji

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision with diverse applications. Recent advancements in deep learning have led to powerful depth foundation models (DFMs), yet their evaluation remains challenging due to inconsistencies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhenyu Li , Haotong Lin , Jiashi Feng , Peter Wonka , Bingyi Kang

A long-standing goal in scene understanding is to obtain interpretable and editable representations that can be directly constructed from a raw monocular RGB-D video, without requiring specialized hardware setup or priors. The problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yu-Shiang Wong , Niloy J. Mitra

Depth estimation is an important task, applied in various methods and applications of computer vision. While the traditional methods of estimating depth are based on depth cues and require specific equipment such as stereo cameras and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Pulkit Vyas , Chirag Saxena , Anwesh Badapanda , Anurag Goswami

In self-supervised monocular depth estimation, the depth discontinuity and motion objects' artifacts are still challenging problems. Existing self-supervised methods usually utilize a single view to train the depth estimation network.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jianrong Wang , Ge Zhang , Zhenyu Wu , XueWei Li , Li Liu

Stereo matching plays a crucial role in 3D perception and scenario understanding. Despite the proliferation of promising methods, addressing texture-less and texture-repetitive conditions remains challenging due to the insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Tong Zhao , Mingyu Ding , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Yintao Wei

Accurately estimating depth in 360-degree imagery is crucial for virtual reality, autonomous navigation, and immersive media applications. Existing depth estimation methods designed for perspective-view imagery fail when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ning-Hsu Wang , Yu-Lun Liu

Accurate stereo depth estimation plays a critical role in various 3D tasks in both indoor and outdoor environments. Recently, learning-based multi-view stereo methods have demonstrated competitive performance with a limited number of views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Uday Kusupati , Shuo Cheng , Rui Chen , Hao Su

Neural implicit representations have become a popular choice for modeling surfaces due to their adaptability in resolution and support for complex topology. While previous works have achieved impressive reconstruction quality by training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Lu Sang , Abhishek Saroha , Maolin Gao , Daniel Cremers

Monocular depth estimation and image deblurring are two fundamental tasks in computer vision, given their crucial role in understanding 3D scenes. Performing any of them by relying on a single image is an ill-posed problem. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Saqib Nazir , Lorenzo Vaquero , Manuel Mucientes , Víctor M. Brea , Daniela Coltuc

Spatial visual perception is a fundamental requirement in physical-world applications like autonomous driving and robotic manipulation, driven by the need to interact with 3D environments. Capturing pixel-aligned metric depth using RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Bin Tan , Changjiang Sun , Xiage Qin , Hanat Adai , Zelin Fu , Tianxiang Zhou , Han Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Nan Xue

Extracting depth information from photon-limited, defocused images is challenging because depth from defocus (DfD) relies on accurate estimation of defocus blur, which is fundamentally sensitive to image noise. We present a novel approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wei Xu , Charles James Wagner , Junjie Luo , Qi Guo

Monocular depth estimation is known as an ill-posed task in which objects in a 2D image usually do not contain sufficient information to predict their depth. Thus, it acts differently from other tasks (e.g., classification and segmentation)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Wencheng Han , Junbo Yin , Jianbing Shen

OCR-based image captioning is an important but under-explored task, aiming to generate descriptions containing visual objects and scene text. Recent studies have made encouraging progress, but they are still suffering from a lack of overall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Dongsheng Xu , Qingbao Huang , Xingmao Zhang , Haonan Cheng , Feng Shuang , Yi Cai

In this paper, we study a problem of egocentric scene understanding, i.e., predicting depths and surface normals from an egocentric image. Egocentric scene understanding poses unprecedented challenges: (1) due to large head movements, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Tien Do , Khiem Vuong , Hyun Soo Park

The estimation of depth in two-dimensional images has long been a challenging and extensively studied subject in computer vision. Recently, significant progress has been made with the emergence of Deep Learning-based approaches, which have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Kyriakos Pantoglou , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

Monocular depth estimation has been actively studied in fields such as robot vision, autonomous driving, and 3D scene understanding. Given a sequence of color images, unsupervised learning methods based on the framework of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Songlin Wei , Guodong Chen , Wenzheng Chi , Zhenhua Wang , Lining Sun

State-of-the-art LiDAR-camera 3D object detectors usually focus on feature fusion. However, they neglect the factor of depth while designing the fusion strategy. In this work, we are the first to observe that different modalities play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

Learning model-free object pose estimation for unseen instances remains a fundamental challenge in 3D vision. Existing methods typically fall into two disjoint paradigms: category-level approaches predict absolute poses in a canonical space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Weihang Li , Lorenzo Garattoni , Fabien Despinoy , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam