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Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a fundamental 3D vision task for recovering camera parameters and scene geometry from multi-view images. While recent deep learning advances enable accurate Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) from single images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shengjie Zhu , Ahmed Abdelkader , Mark J. Matthews , Xiaoming Liu , Wen-Sheng Chu

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods have been increasingly given much attention due to the benefit of not requiring large, labelled datasets. Such self-supervised methods require high-quality salient features and consequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xiaotong Guo , Huijie Zhao , Shuwei Shao , Xudong Li , Baochang Zhang

By training over large-scale datasets, zero-shot monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods show robust performance in the wild but often suffer from insufficient detail. Although recent diffusion-based MDE approaches exhibit a superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Xiang Zhang , Bingxin Ke , Hayko Riemenschneider , Nando Metzger , Anton Obukhov , Markus Gross , Konrad Schindler , Christopher Schroers

Monocular depth estimation is the base task in computer vision. It has a tremendous development in the decade with the development of deep learning. But the boundary blur of the depth map is still a serious problem. Research finds the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Xin Yang , Qingling Chang , Xinlin Liu , Yan Cui

Recent years have witnessed substantial progress on monocular depth estimation, particularly as measured by the success of large models on standard benchmarks. However, performance on standard benchmarks does not offer a complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jack Nugent , Siyang Wu , Zeyu Ma , Beining Han , Meenal Parakh , Abhishek Joshi , Lingjie Mei , Alexander Raistrick , Xinyuan Li , Jia Deng

We present two versatile methods to generally enhance self-supervised monocular depth estimation (MDE) models. The high generalizability of our methods is achieved by solving the fundamental and ubiquitous problems in photometric loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xingyu Chen , Thomas H. Li , Ruonan Zhang , Ge Li

Stereo matching is a key technique for metric depth estimation in computer vision and robotics. Real-world challenges like occlusion and non-texture hinder accurate disparity estimation from binocular matching cues. Recently, monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hualie Jiang , Zhiqiang Lou , Laiyan Ding , Rui Xu , Minglang Tan , Wenjie Jiang , Rui Huang

Foundation-model-based monocular depth estimation offers a viable alternative to active sensors for robot perception, yet its computational cost often prohibits deployment on edge platforms. Existing methods perform independent per-frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Lianjie Ma , Yuquan Li , Bingzheng Jiang , Ziming Zhong , Han Ding , Lijun Zhu

Estimating depth from a monocular image is an ill-posed problem: when the camera projects a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, depth information is inherently and permanently lost. Nevertheless, recent work has shown impressive results in estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jagpreet Chawla , Nikhil Thakurdesai , Anuj Godase , Md Reza , David Crandall , Soon-Heung Jung

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

Spatial scene understanding, including monocular depth estimation, is an important problem in various applications, such as robotics and autonomous driving. While improvements in unsupervised monocular depth estimation have potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Hemang Chawla , Arnav Varma , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SSMDE) aims to predict the dense depth map of a monocular image, by learning depth from RGB image sequences, eliminating the need for ground-truth depth labels. Although this approach simplifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Wonhyeok Choi , Kyumin Hwang , Wei Peng , Minwoo Choi , Sunghoon Im

Depth Estimation has wide reaching applications in the field of Computer vision such as target tracking, augmented reality, and self-driving cars. The goal of Monocular Depth Estimation is to predict the depth map, given a 2D monocular RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mayank Poddar , Akash Mishra , Mohit Kewlani , Haoyang Pei

Predicting accurate depth with monocular images is important for low-cost robotic applications and autonomous driving. This study proposes a comprehensive self-supervised framework for accurate scale-aware depth prediction on autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yuxuan Liu , Zhenhua Xu , Huaiyang Huang , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

Multi-frame depth estimation generally achieves high accuracy relying on the multi-view geometric consistency. When applied in dynamic scenes, e.g., autonomous driving, this consistency is usually violated in the dynamic areas, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Rui Li , Dong Gong , Wei Yin , Hao Chen , Yu Zhu , Kaixuan Wang , Xiaozhi Chen , Jinqiu Sun , Yanning Zhang

Remarkable progress has been made in self-supervised monocular depth estimation (SS-MDE) by exploring cross-view consistency, e.g., photometric consistency and 3D point cloud consistency. However, they are very vulnerable to illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haimei Zhao , Jing Zhang , Zhuo Chen , Bo Yuan , Dacheng Tao

Depth estimation is one of the key technologies for realizing 3D perception in unmanned systems. Monocular depth estimation has been widely researched because of its low-cost advantage, but the existing methods face the challenges of poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Chang Liu , Juan Li , Sheng Zhang , Chang Liu , Jie Li , Xu Zhang

Generalizing metric monocular depth estimation presents a significant challenge due to its ill-posed nature, while the entanglement between camera parameters and depth amplifies issues further, hindering multi-dataset training and zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Karlo Koledić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

Monocular depth inference is a fundamental problem for scene perception of robots. Specific robots may be equipped with a camera plus an optional depth sensor of any type and located in various scenes of different scales, whereas recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Haotian Wang , Meng Yang , Nanning Zheng

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