3 papers
cs.CV2026
Confidence-aware Monocular Depth Estimation for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Muhammad Asad, Emanuele Colleoni, Pritesh Mehta +7
Purpose: Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is vital for scene understanding in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, endoscopic video sequences are often contaminated by smoke,…
cs.CV2026
Comparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge
Tobias Rueckert, David Rauber, Raphaela Maerkl +58
Reliable recognition and localization of surgical instruments in endoscopic video recordings are foundational for a wide range of applications in computer- and robot-assisted minim…
cs.CV2025
Zero-shot Monocular Metric Depth for Endoscopic Images
Nicolas Toussaint, Emanuele Colleoni, Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla +5
Monocular relative and metric depth estimation has seen a tremendous boost in the last few years due to the sharp advancements in foundation models and in particular transformer ba…