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Depth estimation is a critical topic for robotics and vision-related tasks. In monocular depth estimation, in comparison with supervised learning that requires expensive ground truth labeling, self-supervised methods possess great potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jinchang Zhang , Praveen Kumar Reddy , Xue-Iuan Wong , Yiannis Aloimonos , Guoyu Lu

Despite recent improvement of supervised monocular depth estimation, the lack of high quality pixel-wise ground truth annotations has become a major hurdle for further progress. In this work, we propose a new unsupervised depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Huan Liu , Junsong Yuan , Chen Wang , Jun Chen

Depth cameras are frequently used in robotic manipulation, e.g. for visual servoing. The quality of small and compact depth cameras is though often not sufficient for depth reconstruction, which is required for precise tracking in and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Claudius Kienle , David Petri

Previous methods on estimating detailed human depth often require supervised training with `ground truth' depth data. This paper presents a self-supervised method that can be trained on YouTube videos without known depth, which makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Feitong Tan , Hao Zhu , Zhaopeng Cui , Siyu Zhu , Marc Pollefeys , Ping Tan

We present a novel algorithm for self-supervised monocular depth completion. Our approach is based on training a neural network that requires only sparse depth measurements and corresponding monocular video sequences without dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Jaehoon Choi , Dongki Jung , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Inferring the depth of transparent or mirror (ToM) surfaces represents a hard challenge for either sensors, algorithms, or deep networks. We propose a simple pipeline for learning to estimate depth properly for such surfaces with neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Alex Costanzino , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia , Luigi Di Stefano

This paper focuses on self-supervised monocular depth estimation in dynamic scenes trained on monocular videos. Existing methods jointly estimate pixel-wise depth and motion, relying mainly on an image reconstruction loss. Dynamic regions1…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Tianyu Wang , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Transparent and reflective objects in everyday environments pose significant challenges for depth sensors due to their unique visual properties, such as specular reflections and light transmission. These characteristics often lead to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Guanghu Xie , Zhiduo Jiang , Yonglong Zhang , Yang Liu , Zongwu Xie , Baoshi Cao , Hong Liu

Transparent objects are a very challenging problem in computer vision. They are hard to segment or classify due to their lack of precise boundaries, and there is limited data available for training deep neural networks. As such, current…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mehdi Mousavi , Rolando Estrada

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

Confidence-aware learning is proven as an effective solution to prevent networks becoming overconfident. We present a confidence-aware camouflaged object detection framework using dynamic supervision to produce both accurate camouflage map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Jiawei Liu , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

Pseudo depth maps are depth map predicitions which are used as ground truth during training. In this paper we leverage pseudo depth maps in order to segment objects of classes that have never been seen during training. This renders our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Robin Schön , Katja Ludwig , Rainer Lienhart

Progress in self-supervised learning has brought strong general image representation learning methods. Yet so far, it has mostly focused on image-level learning. In turn, tasks such as unsupervised image segmentation have not benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Adrian Ziegler , Yuki M. Asano

Transparent objects are common in our daily life and frequently handled in the automated production line. Robust vision-based robotic grasping and manipulation for these objects would be beneficial for automation. However, the majority of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Hongjie Fang , Hao-Shu Fang , Sheng Xu , Cewu Lu

Estimating the depth of objects from a single image is a valuable task for many vision, robotics, and graphics applications. However, current methods often fail to produce accurate depth for objects in diverse scenes. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Manel Baradad , Yuanzhen Li , Forrester Cole , Michael Rubinstein , Antonio Torralba , William T. Freeman , Varun Jampani

Majority of the perception methods in robotics require depth information provided by RGB-D cameras. However, standard 3D sensors fail to capture depth of transparent objects due to refraction and absorption of light. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Luyang Zhu , Arsalan Mousavian , Yu Xiang , Hammad Mazhar , Jozef van Eenbergen , Shoubhik Debnath , Dieter Fox

Depth estimation features are helpful for 3D recognition. Commodity-grade depth cameras are able to capture depth and color image in real-time. However, glossy, transparent or distant surface cannot be scanned properly by the sensor. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Yu-Kai Huang , Tsung-Han Wu , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Winston H. Hsu

Transparent objects are ubiquitous in industry, pharmaceuticals, and households. Grasping and manipulating these objects is a significant challenge for robots. Existing methods have difficulty reconstructing complete depth maps for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Bardienus P. Duisterhof , Yuemin Mao , Si Heng Teng , Jeffrey Ichnowski

In this work we present a self-supervised learning framework to simultaneously train two Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to predict depth and surface normals from a single image. In contrast to most existing frameworks which represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Huangying Zhan , Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Ravi Garg , Ian Reid

In recent years, deep neural networks have emerged as a solution for inverse imaging problems. These networks are generally trained using pairs of images: one degraded and the other of high quality, the latter being called 'ground truth'.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Victor Sechaud , Patrice Abry , Laurent Jacques , Julián Tachella