Task-Aware Monocular Depth Estimation for 3D Object Detection

Understand

Monocular depth estimation enables 3D perception from a single 2D image, thus attracting much research attention for years.

• Almost all methods treat foreground and background regions ("things and stuff") in an image equally.
• However, not all pixels are equal.
• Depth of foreground objects plays a crucial role in 3D object recognition and localization.