Depth estimation from a single image in the wild remains a challenging problem. One main obstacle is the lack of high-quality training data for images in the wild. In this paper we propose a method to automatically generate such data through Structure-from-Motion (SfM) on Internet videos. The core of this method is a Quality Assessment Network that identifies high-quality reconstructions obtained from SfM. Using this method, we collect single-view depth training data from a large number of YouTube videos and construct a new dataset called YouTube3D. Experiments show that YouTube3D is useful in training depth estimation networks and advances the state of the art of single-view depth estimation in the wild.

@inproceedings{Chen:2019:LSD,
   author = "Weifeng Chen and Shengyi Qian and Jia Deng",
   title = "Learning Single-Image Depth from Videos using Quality Assessment
      Networks",
   booktitle = "IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)",
   year = "2019",
   month = jun
}