cs.CVAug 28, 2026

NBS: No Bias Stereo

Authors: Vage Taamazyan, Zhuowen Shen, Stefan Hinterstoisser, Alberto Dall'Olio, Agastya Kalra, Aarrushi Shandilya, Xin Li, Wenping Wang, +1 more

Organizations: Intrinsic (Google) · Texas A&M University

Abstract

Stereo reconstruction is one of the last remaining Computer Vision tasks where all state-of-the-art methods employ a heavy architectural inductive bias. Even though it has been demonstrated that the task can be solved using general-purpose methods, it is widely believed that inductive biases in stereo are strictly necessary for both high-quality results and computational efficiency. We challenge this paradigm. In this paper, we demonstrate that both state-of-the-art accuracy and superior runtime efficiency are achievable with a model completely devoid of architectural inductive biases, relying instead on a simple, end-to-end Vision Transformer. By training on massive synthetic datasets, we show that pure data-driven learning can surpass explicitly engineered geometry. This work proves that explicit inductive biases are no longer a prerequisite for stereo matching, ultimately unlocking true scaling laws for continuous improvement in 3D reconstruction.

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