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Monocular depth estimation is critical for endoscopists to perform spatial perception and 3D navigation of surgical sites. However, most of the existing methods ignore the important geometric structural consistency, which inevitably leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yongming Yang , Shuwei Shao , Tao Yang , Peng Wang , Zhuo Yang , Chengdong Wu , Hao Liu

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

Accurate and efficient dense metric depth estimation is crucial for 3D visual perception in robotics and XR. In this paper, we develop a monocular visual-inertial motion and depth (VIMD) learning framework to estimate dense metric depth by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Saimouli Katragadda , Guoquan Huang

In autonomous driving, multi-modal perception tasks like 3D object detection typically rely on well-synchronized sensors, both at training and inference. However, despite the use of hardware- or software-based synchronization algorithms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shiming Wang , Holger Caesar , Liangliang Nan , Julian F. P. Kooij

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) aims to infer per-pixel depth from a single RGB image. While diffusion models have advanced MDE with impressive generalization, they often exhibit limitations in accurately reconstructing far-range regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mingxia Zhan , Li Zhang , Yingjie Wang , Xiaomeng Chu , Beibei Wang , Yanyong Zhang

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) has emerged as a pivotal task in computer vision, supporting numerous real-world applications. However, deploying accurate depth estimation models on resource-limited edge devices, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xuan Shen , Weize Ma , Jing Liu , Changdi Yang , Rui Ding , Quanyi Wang , Henghui Ding , Wei Niu , Yanzhi Wang , Pu Zhao , Jun Lin , Jiuxiang Gu

We present Depth Anything at Any Condition (DepthAnything-AC), a foundation monocular depth estimation (MDE) model capable of handling diverse environmental conditions. Previous foundation MDE models achieve impressive performance across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Boyuan Sun , Modi Jin , Bowen Yin , Qibin Hou

Monocular depth estimation aims to recover the depth information of 3D scenes from 2D images. Recent work has made significant progress, but its reliance on large-scale datasets and complex decoders has limited its efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zeyu Ren , Zeyu Zhang , Wukai Li , Qingxiang Liu , Hao Tang

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision, crucial for applications such as 3D reconstruction, free-viewpoint rendering, robotics, autonomous driving, and AR/VR technologies. Traditional methods relying on hardware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhen Xu , Hongyu Zhou , Sida Peng , Haotong Lin , Haoyu Guo , Jiahao Shao , Peishan Yang , Qinglin Yang , Sheng Miao , Xingyi He , Yifan Wang , Yue Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou , Hujun Bao

Bokeh rendering and depth estimation share a fundamental optical connection, yet existing methods fail to fully exploit this reciprocity. Conventional bokeh pipelines rely heavily on noisy depth maps that inevitably introduce visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hangwei Zhang , Armando Fortes , Tianyi Wei , Xingang Pan

Depth estimation plays a important role in SLAM, odometry, and autonomous driving. Especially, monocular depth estimation is profitable technology because of its low cost, memory, and computation. However, it is not a sufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Hyeonsoo Jang , Yeongmin Ko , Younkwan Lee , Moongu Jeon

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

In recent years, foundation models for monocular depth estimation have received increasing attention. Current methods mainly address typical daylight conditions, but their effectiveness notably decreases in low-light environments. There is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Longjian Zeng , Zunjie Zhu , Rongfeng Lu , Ming Lu , Bolun Zheng , Chenggang Yan , Anke Xue

Video depth estimation is crucial in various applications, such as scene reconstruction and augmented reality. In contrast to the naive method of estimating depths from images, a more sophisticated approach uses temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Elena Kosheleva , Sunil Jaiswal , Faranak Shamsafar , Noshaba Cheema , Klaus Illgner-Fehns , Philipp Slusallek

Depth sensors are widely deployed across robotic platforms, and advances in fast, high-fidelity depth simulation have enabled robotic policies trained on depth observations to achieve robust sim-to-real transfer for a wide range of tasks.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Manthan Patel , Jonas Frey , Mayank Mittal , Fan Yang , Alexander Hansson , Amir Bar , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely investigated to estimate depth images and relative poses from RGB images. This framework is attractive for researchers because the depth and pose networks can be trained from just…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Noriaki Hirose , Kosuke Tahara

Multi-frame methods improve monocular depth estimation over single-frame approaches by aggregating spatial-temporal information via feature matching. However, the spatial-temporal feature leads to accuracy degradation in dynamic scenes. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiquan Zhong , Xiaolin Huang , Xiao Yu

Monocular depth estimation can benefit from autoregressive (AR) generation, but direct AR modeling is hindered by the modality gap between RGB and depth, inefficient pixel-wise generation, and instability in continuous depth prediction. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jinchang Zhang , Xinrou Kang , Guoyu Lu

Depth estimation is a cornerstone for autonomous driving, yet acquiring per-pixel depth ground truth for supervised learning is challenging. Self-Supervised Surround Depth Estimation (SSSDE) from consecutive images offers an economical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Laiyan Ding , Hualie Jiang , Jie Li , Yongquan Chen , Rui Huang

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is performed to produce 3D information that can be used in downstream tasks such as those related to on-board perception for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) or driver assistance. Therefore, a relevant arising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Akhil Gurram , Antonio M. Lopez