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Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) models universally suffer from the notorious edge-fattening issue. Triplet loss, as a widespread metric learning strategy, has largely succeeded in many computer vision applications. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Xingyu Chen , Ruonan Zhang , Ji Jiang , Yan Wang , Ge Li , Thomas H. Li

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is a critical task to guide autonomous medical robots. However, obtaining absolute (metric) depth from an endoscopy camera in surgical scenes is difficult, which limits supervised learning of depth on real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Hao Li , Daiwei Lu , Jesse d'Almeida , Dilara Isik , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Nick DiSanto , Ayberk Acar , Susheela Sharma , Jie Ying Wu , Robert J. Webster , Ipek Oguz

While monocular depth estimation (MDE) is an important problem in computer vision, it is difficult due to the ambiguity that results from the compression of a 3D scene into only 2 dimensions. It is common practice in the field to treat it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Dylan Auty , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has been widely studied, owing to its practical importance and recent promising improvements. However, most works suffer from limited supervision of photometric consistency, especially in weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Hyunyoung Jung , Eunhyeok Park , Sungjoo Yoo

Robust three-dimensional scene understanding is now an ever-growing area of research highly relevant in many real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotic navigation. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a fundamental 3D vision problem with numerous applications such as 3D scene reconstruction, autonomous navigation, and AI content creation. However, robust and generalizable MDE remains challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yunpeng Bai , Qixing Huang

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

Monocular depth estimation is a crucial task to measure distance relative to a camera, which is important for applications, such as robot navigation and self-driving. Traditional frame-based methods suffer from performance drops due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tianbo Pan , Zidong Cao , Lin Wang

It has long been an ill-posed problem to predict absolute depth maps from single images in real (unseen) indoor scenes. We observe that it is essentially due to not only the scale-ambiguous problem but also the focal-ambiguous problem that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Chengrui Wei , Meng Yang , Lei He , Nanning Zheng

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) has received increasing interests in the last few years. The objects in the scene, including the object size and relationship among different objects, are the main clues to extract the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yanbo Gao , Huibin Bai , Huasong Zhou , Xingyu Gao , Shuai Li , Xun Cai , Hui Yuan , Wei Hua , Tian Xie

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has attracted intense study due to its low cost and critical functions for robotic tasks such as localization, mapping and obstacle detection. Supervised approaches have led to great success with the advance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Shao-Yuan Lo , Wei Wang , Jim Thomas , Jingjing Zheng , Vishal M. Patel , Cheng-Hao Kuo

Monocular depth estimation enables 3D perception from a single 2D image, thus attracting much research attention for years. Almost all methods treat foreground and background regions ("things and stuff") in an image equally. However, not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xinlong Wang , Wei Yin , Tao Kong , Yuning Jiang , Lei Li , Chunhua Shen

In this work, we address the problem of real-time dense depth estimation from monocular images for mobile underwater vehicles. We formulate a deep learning model that fuses sparse depth measurements from triangulated features to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Luca Ebner , Gideon Billings , Stefan Williams

Monocular depth estimation and defocus estimation are two fundamental tasks in computer vision. Most existing methods treat depth estimation and defocus estimation as two separate tasks, ignoring the strong connection between them. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Renzhi He , Hualin Hong , Boya Fu , Fei Liu

Monocular depth estimation is a critical function in computer vision applications. This paper shows that large language models (LLMs) can effectively interpret depth with minimal supervision, using efficient resource utilization and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhongyi Xia , Tianzhao Wu

Occlusion Boundary Estimation (OBE) identifies boundaries arising from both inter-object occlusions and self-occlusion within individual objects. This task is closely related to Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE), which infers depth from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Lintao Xu , Yinghao Wang , Chaohui Wang

State-of-the-art monocular depth estimation (MDE) models often struggle in challenging environments, primarily because they overlook robust physical information. To demonstrate this, we first conduct an empirical study by computing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Kebin Peng , Haotang Li , Zhenyu Qi , Huashan Chen , Zi Wang , Wei Zhang , Sen He , Huanrui Yang , Qing Guo

As an essential component for many autonomous driving and robotic activities such as ego-motion estimation, obstacle avoidance and scene understanding, monocular depth estimation (MDE) has attracted great attention from the computer vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

Object pose estimation is a fundamental task in 3D vision with applications in robotics, AR/VR, and scene understanding. We address the challenge of category-level 9-DoF pose estimation (6D pose + 3Dsize) from RGB-D input, without relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Rachit Agarwal , Abhishek Joshi , Sathish Chalasani , Woo Jin Kim

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has widely applicable but remains highly challenging due to the inherently ill-posed nature of reconstructing 3D scenes from single 2D images. Modern Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), pre-trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Gongshu Wang , Zhirui Wang , Kan Yang