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Autonomous field robots operating in unstructured environments require robust perception to ensure safe and reliable operations. Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have demonstrated the potential of low-cost cameras as depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Job , Thomas Stastny , Eleni Kelasidi , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

In this paper we consider the task of image-guided depth completion where our system must infer the depth at every pixel of an input image based on the image content and a sparse set of depth measurements. We propose a novel approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Chao Qu , Ty Nguyen , Camillo J. Taylor

Depth estimation is a fundamental task in 3D geometry. While stereo depth estimation can be achieved through triangulation methods, it is not as straightforward for monocular methods, which require the integration of global and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinchang Zhang , Ningning Xu , Hao Zhang , Guoyu Lu

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

Depth information is the foundation of perception, essential for autonomous driving, robotics, and other source-constrained applications. Promptly obtaining accurate and efficient depth information allows for a rapid response in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Zhang , Rabab Abdelfattah , Yuqi Song , Samuel A. Dauchert , Xiaofeng wang

This paper reports a new continuous 3D loss function for learning depth from monocular images. The dense depth prediction from a monocular image is supervised using sparse LIDAR points, which enables us to leverage available open source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Yuanxin Zhong , Pingping Lu , Zhong Cao , Ryan M. Eustice , Huei Peng

Many standard robotic platforms are equipped with at least a fixed 2D laser range finder and a monocular camera. Although those platforms do not have sensors for 3D depth sensing capability, knowledge of depth is an essential part in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Yiyi Liao , Lichao Huang , Yue Wang , Sarath Kodagoda , Yinan Yu , Yong 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

Depth completion, aiming to predict dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements, plays a crucial role in many computer vision related applications. Deep learning approaches have demonstrated overwhelming success in this task. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yu Cai , Tianyu Shen , Shi-Sheng Huang , Hua Huang

In recent years, the emergence of foundation models for depth prediction has led to remarkable progress, particularly in zero-shot monocular depth estimation. These models generate impressive depth predictions; however, their outputs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rizhao Fan , Tianfang Ma , Zhigen Li , Ning An , Jian Cheng

Perceiving the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the spacecraft is a prerequisite for successfully executing many on-orbit space missions, and it can provide critical input for many downstream vision algorithms. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Xiang Liu , Hongyuan Wang , Zhiqiang Yan , Yu Chen , Xinlong Chen , Weichun Chen

We present an algorithm for estimating consistent dense depth maps and camera poses from a monocular video. We integrate a learning-based depth prior, in the form of a convolutional neural network trained for single-image depth estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Johannes Kopf , Xuejian Rong , Jia-Bin Huang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Luigi Piccinelli , Christos Sakaridis , Yung-Hsu Yang , Mattia Segu , Siyuan Li , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

The depth completion task is a critical problem in autonomous driving, involving the generation of dense depth maps from sparse depth maps and RGB images. Most existing methods employ a spatial propagation network to iteratively refine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ming Yuan , Chuang Zhang , Lei He , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang

Depth Completion can produce a dense depth map from a sparse input and provide a more complete 3D description of the environment. Despite great progress made in depth completion, the sparsity of the input and low density of the ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jiaqi Gu , Zhiyu Xiang , Yuwen Ye , Lingxuan Wang

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of 3D reconstruction and plays a vital role in minimally invasive endoscopic surgeries. However, most current depth estimation networks rely on traditional convolutional neural networks, which are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Bojian Li , Bo Liu , Xinning Yao , Jinghua Yue , Fugen Zhou

While the keypoint-based maps created by sparse monocular simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems are useful for camera tracking, dense 3D reconstructions may be desired for many robotic tasks. Solutions involving depth cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tristan Laidlow , Jan Czarnowski , Stefan Leutenegger

Self-supervised monocular depth prediction provides a cost-effective solution to obtain the 3D location of each pixel. However, the existing approaches usually lead to unsatisfactory accuracy, which is critical for autonomous robots. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ziyue Feng , Longlong Jing , Peng Yin , Yingli Tian , Bing Li

Depth completion aims to predict dense depth maps with sparse depth measurements from a depth sensor. Currently, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based models are the most popular methods applied to depth completion tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Jian Qian , Miao Sun , Ashley Lee , Jie Li , Shenglong Zhuo , Patrick Yin Chiang

Metric depth estimation from visual sensors is crucial for robots to perceive, navigate, and interact with their environment. Traditional range imaging setups, such as stereo or structured light cameras, face hassles including calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Blanca Lasheras-Hernandez , Klaus H. Strobl , Sergio Izquierdo , Tim Bodenmüller , Rudolph Triebel , Javier Civera