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These solutions include a monocular depth estimation method based on uncertainty analysis, which solves the problem in which a neural network has strong expressive ability but cannot evaluate the reliability of an output result. In addition, this paper proposes a photometric loss function based on the Retinex algorithm, which solves the problem of pulling around pixels due to the presence of moving objects. 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