Depth3DLane: Fusing Monocular 3D Lane Detection with Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13857v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:23:47 GMT
• Title: Depth3DLane: Fusing Monocular 3D Lane Detection with Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation
• Authors: Max van den Hoven, Kishaan Jeeveswaran, Pieter Piscaer, Thijs Wensveen, Elahe Arani, Bahram Zonooz,
• Abstract summary: Multi-modal approaches rely on expensive depth sensors, while fully-supervised depth networks rely on ground-truth depth data that is impractical to collect at scale.<n>We propose Depth3DLane, a novel dual-pathway framework that integrates self-supervised monocular depth estimation.<n>We show that Depth3DLane achieves competitive performance on the OpenLane benchmark dataset.
• Score: 15.904739731978236
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Monocular 3D lane detection is essential for autonomous driving, but challenging due to the inherent lack of explicit spatial information. Multi-modal approaches rely on expensive depth sensors, while methods incorporating fully-supervised depth networks rely on ground-truth depth data that is impractical to collect at scale. Additionally, existing methods assume that camera parameters are available, limiting their applicability in scenarios like crowdsourced high-definition (HD) lane mapping. To address these limitations, we propose Depth3DLane, a novel dual-pathway framework that integrates self-supervised monocular depth estimation to provide explicit structural information, without the need for expensive sensors or additional ground-truth depth data. Leveraging a self-supervised depth network to obtain a point cloud representation of the scene, our bird's-eye view pathway extracts explicit spatial information, while our front view pathway simultaneously extracts rich semantic information. Depth3DLane then uses 3D lane anchors to sample features from both pathways and infer accurate 3D lane geometry. Furthermore, we extend the framework to predict camera parameters on a per-frame basis and introduce a theoretically motivated fitting procedure to enhance stability on a per-segment basis. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Depth3DLane achieves competitive performance on the OpenLane benchmark dataset. Furthermore, experimental results show that using learned parameters instead of ground-truth parameters allows Depth3DLane to be applied in scenarios where camera calibration is infeasible, unlike previous methods.

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