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Monocular depth foundation models generalize well across scenes, yet they are typically optimized with uniform pixel-wise objectives that do not distinguish user-specified or task-relevant target regions from the surrounding context. We…

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Recent work showed that large diffusion models can be reused as highly precise monocular depth estimators by casting depth estimation as an image-conditional image generation task. While the proposed model achieved state-of-the-art results,…

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Explainable artificial intelligence is increasingly employed to understand the decision-making process of deep learning models and create trustworthiness in their adoption. However, the explainability of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lorenzo Cirillo , Claudio Schiavella , Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini

Monocular depth estimation (MDE), inferring pixel-level depths in single RGB images from a monocular camera, plays a crucial and pivotal role in a variety of AI applications demanding a three-dimensional (3D) topographical scene. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mingyu Sung , Hyeonmin Choe , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae Mo Kang

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 is a crucial task in computer vision. While existing methods have shown impressive results under standard conditions, they often face challenges in reliably performing in scenarios such as low-light or rainy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Yifan Mao , Jian Liu , Xianming Liu

Pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly applied to real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) task. Given the iterative refinement nature of diffusion models, most existing approaches are computationally expensive.…

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Diffusion models have shown remarkable flexibility for solving inverse problems without task-specific retraining. However, existing approaches such as Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion (MPGD) apply only a single gradient update per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Aditya Chakravarty

Diffusion-based approaches have recently driven remarkable progress in real-world image super-resolution (SR). However, existing methods still struggle to simultaneously preserve fine details and ensure high-fidelity reconstruction, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Aro Kim , Myeongjin Jang , Chaewon Moon , Youngjin Shin , Jinwoo Jeong , Sang-hyo Park

Conventional class-guided diffusion models generally succeed in generating images with correct semantic content, but often struggle with texture details. This limitation stems from the usage of class priors, which only provide coarse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Shuyang Sun , Meng Wei , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai , Luping Zhou

Accurate monocular metric depth estimation (MMDE) is crucial to solving downstream tasks in 3D perception and modeling. However, the remarkable accuracy of recent MMDE methods is confined to their training domains. These methods fail to…

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Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (DE) is an approach to learning depth without costly depth ground truths. However, it often struggles with moving objects that violate the static scene assumption during training. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jaeho Moon , Juan Luis Gonzalez Bello , Byeongjun Kwon , Munchurl Kim

In diffusion models, samples are generated through an iterative refinement process, requiring hundreds of sequential model evaluations. Several recent methods have introduced approximations (fewer discretization steps or distillation) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Nikil Roashan Selvam , Amil Merchant , Stefano Ermon

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) from thermal images is a crucial technology for robotic systems operating in challenging conditions such as fog, smoke, and low light. The limited availability of labeled thermal data constrains the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xingxing Zuo , Nikhil Ranganathan , Connor Lee , Georgia Gkioxari , Soon-Jo Chung

Monocular depth estimation is vital for scene understanding and downstream tasks. We focus on the supervised setup, in which ground-truth depth is available only at training time. Based on knowledge about the high regularity of real 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Vaishakh Patil , Christos Sakaridis , Alexander Liniger , Luc Van Gool

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation aims to infer depth information without relying on labeled data. However, the lack of labeled information poses a significant challenge to the model's representation, limiting its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Guodong Sun , Junjie Liu , Mingxuan Liu , Moyun Liu , Yang Zhang

Real-image super-resolution (Real-ISR) seeks to recover HR images from LR inputs with mixed, unknown degradations. While diffusion models surpass GANs in perceptual quality, they under-reconstruct high-frequency (HF) details due to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Seungho Choi , Jeahun Sung , Jihyong Oh

High-precision dichotomous image segmentation (DIS) is a task of extracting fine-grained objects from high-resolution images. Existing methods trade efficiency for accuracy: non-diffusion methods are fast but suffer from weak semantics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xianjie Liu , Keren Fu , Qijun Zhao

Blind face restoration methods have shown remarkable performance, particularly when trained on large-scale synthetic datasets with supervised learning. These datasets are often generated by simulating low-quality face images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Tianshu Kuai , Sina Honari , Igor Gilitschenski , Alex Levinshtein

Monocular depth estimation has applications in many fields, such as autonomous navigation and extended reality, making it an essential computer vision task. However, current methods often produce smooth depth maps that lack the fine…

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