Depth Estimation

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Depth estimation studies how to recover per-pixel distance and scene geometry from images, video, stereo pairs, and sensors such as LiDAR, radar, event, thermal, and time-of-flight cameras. Methods range from stereo and multi-view geometry to self-supervised monocular learning, sparse-to-dense depth completion, and pretrained vision or video models guided by sparse metric measurements. Current systems increasingly use temporal consistency, uncertainty estimates, camera-aware adaptation, and sensor fusion in settings such as driving, endoscopy, panoramas, and transparent scenes. A central challenge is generalizing across cameras, domains, lighting, and motion while balancing metric accuracy, geometric consistency, and real-time efficiency; benchmarks such as KITTI and NYUv2 also highlight the limits of evaluation when reliable ground-truth depth is scarce.

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198 papers12 papers in the last four weeks, down 25% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Reliability-Aware Reconstruction of V-Shaped Surfaces with a Low-Cost Multi-Zone SPAD Sensor

    Oct 20, 2026Yohanssen PratamaDepth EstimationPoint Cloud Surface Reconstruction

    Institute for International Strategy and Emerging Technologies, Tokyo International University, 1-13-1 Matoba-Kita, Kawagoe, 350-1197, Japan

  2. SAP-Depth: Scene-Adaptive Probability Framework for Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

    Oct 17, 2026Bowen He, Li Zhang, Yujie Chen +1Depth EstimationSelf-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

    Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China.

  3. Gen4P: Video Generators are 4D Perceivers

    Oct 15, 2026Yitong Xia, Zeren Jiang, Chuanxia ZhengVideo Depth Estimation4D Scene Understanding

    PVG, Nanyang Technological University · VGG, University of Oxford

  4. Adversarial Robustness of Camera-Radar Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving

    Oct 12, 2026Ce Zhou, Yubo Wu, Khang Nguyen +3Camera-Radar FusionAdversarial Robustness

    Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA · Virginia Tech, USA · Michigan State University, USA

  5. Harnessing SPAD Noise: Test-Time Gated Attention for Indoor Depth Estimation

    Oct 11, 2026Yiquan GaoDepth EstimationMetric Depth Estimation

    Heriot-Watt University

  6. GeoBridge: Evolving Transferable Decoder Topologies for Geometric Vision

    Oct 11, 2026Rui Wang, Haoyu Zhang, Ran ChengNeural Architecture SearchDepth Estimation

    School of Information Science and Technology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, P.R. China · Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

  7. HumanPhys: A Human-Centric Physical-World Perception Benchmark for Real-World Visual Reasoning

    Oct 10, 2026Yiming Zhang, Enzhi Zhou, Junan Lin +4Human Motion UnderstandingVLM Reasoning

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Ant Group, Hangzhou, China

  8. Depth-to-RGB: Repurposing a Frozen Depth Estimator for Geometry-Guided Compositing

    Oct 6, 2026Sanghyun Jo, Chae Yeon Lim, Donghwan Lee +3Image EditingCompositional Image Generation

    OGQ · Seoul National University · Adobe Research

  9. DepthWorld: 3D World Model for Robot Manipulation

    Oct 6, 2026Jai Bardhan, Josef Sivic, Vladimir PetrikMulti-View Depth EstimationWorld Models for Robotics

    Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics Czech Technical University in Prague

  10. RoboCap: A New Platform for Egocentric Robot Learning

    Oct 5, 2026Qasim Ali, Nikash Bhardwaj, Kheri Hughes +15Robotic Data CollectionDepth Estimation

  11. EagleDepth: Efficient Fine-Grained Depth Estimation via Pixel Diffusion Decoder

    Oct 3, 2026Bowen Chai, Tianbao Zhang, Shuyu Wu +3Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Beihang University

  12. Decoupling Spherical Reasoning from Dense Prediction for 360 Depth Estimation

    Sep 30, 2026Zhijie Shen, Chunyu Lin, Shuai Zheng +4Graph Neural NetworksDepth Estimation

    Beijing Jiaotong University · Hefei University of Technology · Shandong University

  13. EpiTransfer: Sparse, Training-Free Long-Range Depth Estimation from Temporal Monocular Aerial Frames

    Sep 27, 2026Diksha Aggarwal, Rutvik Dagadkhair, Sanjana Srivastava +2Multi-View GeometryDepth Estimation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. · Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

  14. FoundDSR: A Generalizable Foundation Model with Guided 2D Gaussian Splatting for Depth Super-Resolution

    Sep 26, 2026Zhengxue Wang, Zhiqiang Yan, Yuan Wu +3Depth Estimation3D Gaussian Splatting

    PCA Lab, Nanjing University of Science and Technology · National University of Singapore · Nankai University +1

  15. Depth Any Seen: Which Surfaces and How Far?

    Sep 25, 2026Xiaohao Xu, Xiaonan HuangDepth EstimationMetric Depth Estimation

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  16. Quadruped Obstacle Avoidance and Footstep Planning with Distributed Low-cost Time-of-Flight Sensors

    Sep 25, 2026Giammarco Caroleo, Timothée Mahamoodally, Matteo Manzardo +6Quadruped LocomotionRobot Collision Avoidance

    Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford, UK. · Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. · University of Edinburgh, UK. +1

  17. Self-Supervised Perceptually Interpretable Monocular Depth Estimation

    Sep 25, 2026Zain Ul Abidin, George Dimas, Dimitris K. IakovidisDepth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, School of Science, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece

  18. AnalogDepth: Multi-view Geometry from FPV drones under Analog Video Transmission

    Sep 21, 2026André Amorim, Pedro F. ProençaDepth EstimationMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal.

  19. Info3R: Information-Adaptive Test-Time Training for 3D Reconstruction

    Sep 18, 2026Sunghyun Baek, Hanna Bae, Minchan Kwon +1Video Depth EstimationStreaming 3D Reconstruction

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

  20. Underwater Visual Target Tracking with Target-Specific Depth Estimation and Adaptive Model-Fusion Predictive Control

    Sep 17, 2026Yuheng Zhou, Haiyang Cheng, Yanqi Feng +5Adaptive MPCDepth Estimation

    Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada · University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  21. GRADE: Single-Frame Generative Radar Depth Estimation Under Visual Degradation

    Sep 9, 2026Bin Zhao, Patrick Chiou, Nakul GargMetric Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Rice University

  22. Disparity Has a Sign: Stereo Matching Beyond the Zero-Disparity Plane

    Sep 6, 2026Jian Shi, Xinge Yang, Chaoyang Wang +2Stereo MatchingStereo Depth Estimation

    KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  23. Weather-Conditioned Depth Anything

    Sep 4, 2026Zhaoming Xu, Chan-Wei Hu, Kuan-Ru Huang +4Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

  24. EMCStereo: Attention-Enhanced Stereo Matching for Thin-Structure Depth Estimation with a Synthetic Tree-Branch Benchmark

    Sep 2, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Depth EstimationStereo Matching

    Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand

  25. What Does the Encoder Actually Decide? A Controlled Comparison of Vision Backbones on Joint Tree Segmentation and Stereo Depth

    Sep 2, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Stereo Depth EstimationImage Segmentation

    Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand

  26. Monocular Depth Estimation from a Single Image: Progress and Opportunities

    Sep 1, 2026Muxin Liu, Xiaoyang Lyu, Yang-Tian Sun +4Metric Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077.

  27. RealOOB: A Definition-Consistent Real-World Oriented Occlusion Boundary Benchmark

    Aug 31, 2026Lintao Xu, Yinghao Wang, Chenchu Rong +2Depth Estimation

    LIGM, UGE, ENPC, CNRS, France · INFRES, T´el´ecom Paris, IP Paris, France · MathMagic, China +1

  28. Arctic Dispersion Interruption Phenomenon and Sound Source Depth Estimation

    Aug 31, 2026Weng Jinbao, Yang Yanming, Chen Benqing +2Depth EstimationUnderwater Acoustics

    Laboratory of ocean acoustic and remote sensing, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, China

  29. OptiGeo: Efficient Monocular Geometry for Embodied Perception in Optically Challenging Scenes

    Aug 30, 2026Muxin Liu, Tianbo Liu, Jing Xia +7Depth EstimationMonocular Depth Estimation

    The University of Hong Kong · Voyager Research, DiDi Chuxing · Southern University of Science and Technology

  30. Computational Depth Measurement in Thermographic Video: Overcoming Spatial Overfitting via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling

    Aug 29, 2026Zain Ul Abidin, Habeeban Memon, Junaid AhmedNon-Destructive TestingDepth Estimation

    Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan