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Due to the optical properties, transparent objects often lead depth cameras to generate incomplete or invalid depth data, which in turn reduces the accuracy and reliability of robotic grasping. Existing approaches typically input the RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yaofeng Cheng , Xinkai Gao , Sen Zhang , Chao Zeng , Fusheng Zha , Lining Sun , Chenguang Yang

Transparent object perception is indispensable for numerous robotic tasks. However, accurately segmenting and estimating the depth of transparent objects remain challenging due to complex optical properties. Existing methods primarily delve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiangyuan Liu , Hongxuan Ma , Yuxin Guo , Yuhao Zhao , Chi Zhang , Wei Sui , Wei Zou

A key contributor to recent progress in 3D detection from single images is monocular depth estimation. Existing methods focus on how to leverage depth explicitly, by generating pseudo-pointclouds or providing attention cues for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Dennis Park , Jie Li , Dian Chen , Vitor Guizilini , Adrien Gaidon

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

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has witnessed remarkable progress driven by Convolutional Neural Networks and transformer-based architectures. However, these approaches typically treat the problem as a generic image-to-image regression on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Qianlei Wang , Kexun Chen , Shaolin Zhang , Hongli Gao , Chaoning Zhang , Xiaolin Qin

Metric depth estimation from visual sensors is crucial for robots to perceive, navigate, and interact with their environment. Traditional range imaging setups, such as stereo or structured light cameras, face hassles including calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Blanca Lasheras-Hernandez , Klaus H. Strobl , Sergio Izquierdo , Tim Bodenmüller , Rudolph Triebel , Javier Civera

Monocular depth estimation is scale-ambiguous, and thus requires scale supervision to produce metric predictions. Even so, the resulting models will be geometry-specific, with learned scales that cannot be directly transferred across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Vitor Guizilini , Igor Vasiljevic , Dian Chen , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

Depth completion aims to recover dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements. It is of increasing importance for autonomous driving and draws increasing attention from the vision community. Most of existing methods directly train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yan Xu , Xinge Zhu , Jianping Shi , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Hongsheng Li

This paper introduces PatchRefiner, an advanced framework for metric single image depth estimation aimed at high-resolution real-domain inputs. While depth estimation is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving, 3D generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhenyu Li , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Peter Wonka

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

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

Monocular depth estimation is a fundamental computer vision task. Recovering 3D depth from a single image is geometrically ill-posed and requires scene understanding, so it is not surprising that the rise of deep learning has led to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Bingxin Ke , Anton Obukhov , Shengyu Huang , Nando Metzger , Rodrigo Caye Daudt , Konrad Schindler

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation serves as a key task in the development of endoscopic navigation systems. However, performance degradation persists due to uneven illumination inherent in endoscopic images, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mingyang Ou , Haojin Li , Yifeng Zhang , Ke Niu , Zhongxi Qiu , Heng Li , Jiang Liu

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical component of many medical tracking and mapping algorithms, particularly from endoscopic or laparoscopic video. However, because ground truth depth maps cannot be acquired from real patient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 John J. Han , Ayberk Acar , Callahan Henry , Jie Ying Wu

Monocular depth estimation is an interesting and challenging problem as there is no analytic mapping known between an intensity image and its depth map. Recently there has been a lot of data accumulated through depth-sensing cameras, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Yigit Oktar

Depth information is essential for on-board perception in autonomous driving and driver assistance. Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is very appealing since it allows for appearance and depth being on direct pixelwise correspondence without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Akhil Gurram , Ahmet Faruk Tuna , Fengyi Shen , Onay Urfalioglu , Antonio M. López

We propose a method for depth estimation under different illumination conditions, i.e., day and night time. As photometry is uninformative in regions under low-illumination, we tackle the problem through a multi-sensor fusion approach,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Vadim Ezhov , Hyoungseob Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Chethan Chinder Chandrappa , Achuta Kadambi , Yunhao Ba , Julie Dorsey , Alex Wong

The depth completion task is a critical problem in autonomous driving, involving the generation of dense depth maps from sparse depth maps and RGB images. Most existing methods employ a spatial propagation network to iteratively refine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ming Yuan , Chuang Zhang , Lei He , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

Estimating accurate 3D locations of objects from monocular images is a challenging problem because of lacking depth. Previous work shows that utilizing the object's keypoint projection constraints to estimate multiple depth candidates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yingyan Li , Yuntao Chen , Jiawei He , Zhaoxiang Zhang

As processing power has become more available, more human-like artificial intelligences are created to solve image processing tasks that we are inherently good at. As such we propose a model that estimates depth from a monocular image. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Fabian Truetsch , Alfred Schöttl