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Depth Estimation

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Synonyms

2.5D estimation; Depth imaging, distance estimation and three dimensional estimation; Distance estimation; Three dimensional estimation

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Definition

Depth estimation describes the process of measuring or estimating distances from sensor data, typically in a 2D array of depth range data. The sensors may be either optical camera configurations (monocular, stereo, or multiview stereo camera rigs), active projector-camera configurations, or active range cameras.

Background

Depth estimation is one of the fundamental computer vision tasks, as it involves the inverse problem of reconstructing the three-dimensional scene structure from two-dimensional projections. Given a 2D image of a 3D scene, the goal of depth estimation is to recover, for every image pixel, the distance from the camera center to the nearest...

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

    Reinhard Koch & Johannes Bruenger

  2. Institut für Informatik Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany

    Reinhard Koch

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  1. ETH Zurich - Microsoft, Zurich, Switzerland

    Marc Pollefeys

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Koch, R., Bruenger, J. (2021). Depth Estimation. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_125-1

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