Weakly Supervised Learning for Depth Estimation in Monocular Images

So-called depth estimation serves the three-dimensional perception of scenes in photographs and plays an important role in various areas of application, such as robotics or autonomous driving. Since 2019, scientists at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of Paderborn University have been collaborating with the L3S Research Department of Leibniz University Hannover (Visual Analytics working group, Professor Ralph Ewerth) on machine learning methods, which are intended to make this process more universal and more cost-effective. Two years into the project entitled “Weakly Supervised Learning of Depth Estimation in Monocular Images”, promoted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), the project group is now able to see results for various areas of application.