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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

Real-time depth reconstruction from ultra-high-resolution UAV imagery is essential for time-critical geospatial tasks such as disaster response, yet remains challenging due to wide-baseline parallax, large image sizes, low-texture or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Selim Ahmet Iz , Francesco Nex , Norman Kerle , Henry Meissner , Ralf Berger

Depth completion aims at predicting dense pixel-wise depth from an extremely sparse map captured from a depth sensor, e.g., LiDARs. It plays an essential role in various applications such as autonomous driving, 3D reconstruction, augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Junjie Hu , Chenyu Bao , Mete Ozay , Chenyou Fan , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

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

The Depth from Defocus (DFD) imaging technique for measuring the size and number concentration of particles in a dispersed two-phase flow has up to now been restricted to relatively sparse particle densities and to identifying only…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-01 Rixin Xua , Zuojie Huanga , Wenchao Gonga , Wu Zhoua , Cameron Tropea

Estimating the 3D world from 2D monocular images is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the labour-intensive nature of 3D annotations. To simplify label acquisition, this work proposes a novel approach that bridges 2D vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sihao Lin , Daqi Liu , Ruochong Fu , Dongrui Liu , Andy Song , Hongwei Xie , Zhihui Li , Bing Wang , Xiaojun Chang

Focus stacking is widely used in micro, macro, and landscape photography to reconstruct all-in-focus images from multiple frames obtained with focus bracketing, that is, with shallow depth of field and different focus planes. Existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Alexandre Araujo , Jean Ponce , Julien Mairal

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

Though there exists a reasonable forward model for blur based on optical physics, recovering depth from a collection of defocused images remains a computationally challenging optimization problem. In this paper, we show that with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Holly Jackson , Caleb Adams , Ignacio Lopez-Francos , Benjamin Recht

Shape-from-Focus (SFF) is a passive depth estimation technique that infers scene depth by analyzing focus variations in a focal stack. Most recent deep learning-based SFF methods typically operate in two stages: first, they extract focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Khurram Ashfaq , Muhammad Tariq Mahmood

This paper tackles the problem of depth estimation from a single image. Existing work either focuses on generalization performance disregarding metric scale, i.e. relative depth estimation, or state-of-the-art results on specific datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Shariq Farooq Bhat , Reiner Birkl , Diana Wofk , Peter Wonka , Matthias Müller

Detecting AI-generated images has become an extraordinarily difficult challenge as new generative architectures emerge on a daily basis with more and more capabilities and unprecedented realism. New versions of many commercial tools, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Matthias Nießner , Luisa Verdoliva

We propose HYBRIDDEPTH, a robust depth estimation pipeline that addresses key challenges in depth estimation,including scale ambiguity, hardware heterogeneity, and generalizability. HYBRIDDEPTH leverages focal stack, data conveniently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ashkan Ganj , Hang Su , Tian Guo

One practical approach to infer 3D scene structure from a single image is to retrieve a closely matching 3D model from a database and align it with the object in the image. Existing methods rely on supervised training with images and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Pattaramanee Arsomngern , Sasikarn Khwanmuang , Matthias Nießner , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Defocus Blur Detection(DBD) aims to separate in-focus and out-of-focus regions from a single image pixel-wisely. This task has been paid much attention since bokeh effects are widely used in digital cameras and smartphone photography.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun

Current Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) approaches are restricted to recognition of a single dominant unseen object category in a test image. We hypothesize that this setting is ill-suited for real-world applications where unseen objects appear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Shafin Rahman , Salman Khan , Fatih Porikli

We introduce SpiderCam, an FPGA-based snapshot depth-from-defocus camera which produces 480x400 sparse depth maps in real-time at 32.5 FPS over a working range of 52 cm while consuming 624 mW of power in total. SpiderCam comprises a custom…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Marcos A. Ferreira , Tianao Li , John Mamish , Josiah Hester , Yaman Sangar , Qi Guo , Emma Alexander

In this project, we propose a novel approach for estimating depth from RGB images. Traditionally, most work uses a single RGB image to estimate depth, which is inherently difficult and generally results in poor performance, even with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Eric Cristofalo , Zijian Wang

Modern cameras with large apertures often suffer from a shallow depth of field, resulting in blurry images of objects outside the focal plane. This limitation is particularly problematic for fixed-focus cameras, such as those used in smart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xinge Yang , Chuong Nguyen , Wenbin Wang , Kaizhang Kang , Wolfgang Heidrich , Xiaoxing Li

Human visual system relies on both binocular stereo cues and monocular focusness cues to gain effective 3D perception. In computer vision, the two problems are traditionally solved in separate tracks. In this paper, we present a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Xinqing Guo , Zhang Chen , Siyuan Li , Yang Yang , Jingyi Yu