Stereo Matching

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Stereo matching finds corresponding points in two camera views, usually rectified so their horizontal displacement, or disparity, can be converted into depth. Modern methods build cost volumes or correlation maps and refine disparities with recurrent updates, while attention and transformer models use wider context to handle occlusions, textureless surfaces, and thin structures. Other approaches incorporate monocular depth, geometric or foundation-model priors, self-supervision, and synthetic data to improve transfer across settings such as driving, underwater imaging, satellites, and omnidirectional cameras. The central tension is achieving accurate, generalizable depth under changing appearance and sparse supervision while keeping inference fast and compact enough for deployment.

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  1. E3tereo: Improving Stereo Matching at Depth Boundaries with Learned Geometric Edges

    Oct 24, 2026Qi Xiong, Qinghua Zhao, Yongqiang XiStereo MatchingEdge Detection

    Xidian University · Hefei University

  2. SatUnreal: A High-Precision Synthetic Dataset for Satellite Stereo Matching via Unreal Engine

    Sep 23, 2026Han-Gyeol Kim, JaeWan Park, Junmin Park +1Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationSynthetic Data Generation

    TelePIX, South Korea

  3. Disparity Has a Sign: Stereo Matching Beyond the Zero-Disparity Plane

    Sep 6, 2026Jian Shi, Xinge Yang, Chaoyang Wang +2Stereo MatchingStereo Depth Estimation

    KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

  4. Distilling deep optical flow stereo methods to retrieve dense three-dimensional wind fields

    Sep 2, 2026Thomas J. Vandal, Dong L. Wu, James L. Carr +5Optical FlowStereo Matching

    Zeus AI · NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Carr Astronautics +1

  5. EMCStereo: Attention-Enhanced Stereo Matching for Thin-Structure Depth Estimation with a Synthetic Tree-Branch Benchmark

    Sep 2, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Depth EstimationStereo Matching

    Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand

  6. PhasorNet: Learning Structure from Frequency for Real-Time Stereo Matching

    Aug 30, 2026Md Raqib Khan, Santosh Kumar Vipparthi, Subrahmanyam MuralaFrequency-Domain Feature LearningStereo Matching

    CVPR Lab, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · CVPR Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India

  7. NBS: No Bias Stereo

    Aug 28, 2026Vage Taamazyan, Zhuowen Shen, Stefan Hinterstoisser +6Stereo MatchingStereo Depth Estimation

    Intrinsic (Google) · Texas A&M University

  8. StereoDiffuer: Diffusion-based Progressive Geometry Modeling with Saliency Attention Perception for Stereo Matching

    Aug 22, 2026Bohan LiStereo Matching

    Shanghai Jiaotong University, No.800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240, China · Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology, No. 568, Tongxin Road, Ningbo, 315000, China

  9. Semi-Dense Matching Uncertainty Is Not Just Local Confidence

    Aug 9, 2026Khoa Hoang, Hoang-Tuan Nguyen, Huong Ninh +2Image MatchingStereo Matching

    University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi · Optoelectronics Center, Viettel Aerospace Institute, Viettel Group · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

  10. SeasonStereo: Robust Dense Stereo Matching for Multi-Date Satellite Imagery via Generative AI

    Jul 29, 2026Álvaro Díaz-Laureano, Roger Marí, Elías Masquil +2Remote Sensing Image Understanding3D Reconstruction

    Eurecat, Multimedia Technologies, Barcelona, Spain · IIE, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay · Dept. of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain +2

  11. WHTMix: Efficient Stereo Depth Estimation via Walsh-Hadamard Token Mixing

    Jul 28, 2026Prathyush Sajith, Emadeldeen Hamdan, Ahmet Enis CetinDepth EstimationStereo Matching

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

  12. GeoStereo: A Unified Stereo Geometry Estimation Framework for Disparity and Surface Normal

    Jul 27, 2026Qizhe Wei, Xianda Guo, Shaocong Xu +3Surface Normal EstimationStereo Matching

    Beijing Institute of Technology BAAI Beijing, China · School of Computer Science, Wuhan University Wuhan, China · BAAI Beijing, China +3

  13. Towards Ultrafast Depth Sensing Via Active Event-based Stereo Vision

    Jul 26, 2026Jianing Li, Yunjian Zhang, Haiqian Han +2Event-Based VisionDepth Estimation

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China

  14. STEREOFLOW: Progressive Stereo Matching with StereoDiT and Transition Flow Matching

    Jul 22, 2026Hao Wang, Haoran Geng, Xiaotong Yang +7Flow MatchingDiffusion Transformer

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Google · State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China +3

  15. WAVE-Stereo: Warp-Aligned Volume Encoding for Stereo Matching

    Jul 15, 2026Zehan Liu, Yage He, Xianwu GongStereo MatchingStereo Depth Estimation

    School of Electronics and Control Engineering Chang’an University Xi’an, China

  16. Revisiting Matching Response and Swept Feature Volumes for Wide-baseline Omnidirectional Stereo

    Jul 13, 2026Seungjin Jeon, Jongwoo Lim, Changhee WonSurface Normal EstimationStereo Matching

    UVify Corporate Affiliated Research Institute, Republic of Korea. · Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

  17. Rethinking Monocular Depth Embedding for Generalized Stereo Matching

    Jul 10, 2026Libo Lin, Shuangli Du, Minghua Zhao +3Stereo Matching

    Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Network Computing and Security Technology, Xi’an University of Technology, No. 5, Jinhua South Road, Xi’an, 710048, Shaanxi, China · College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, , Chengdu, 610065, Sichuan, China

  18. URS-Stereo: Uncertainty-Guided Residual Search for Real-Time Stereo Matching

    Jul 7, 2026Pouya Sohrabipour, Chaitanya kumar reddy Pallerla, Dongyi WangStereo Matching

  19. AquaStereo: Enabling Underwater Stereo Matching via Depth-Conditioned Diffusion and Geometry Self-Distillation

    Jul 5, 2026Qizhe Wei, Yingping Liang, Shaodi You +1Underwater ImagingStereo Matching

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  20. LiteMatch: Lightweight Zero-Shot Stereo Matching via Cost Volume Stabilization

    Jun 30, 2026Md Raqib Khan, Santosh Kumar Vipparthi, Subrahmanyam MuralaZero-Shot LearningStereo Matching

    CVPR Lab, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · CVPR Lab, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India

  21. Cross-View Variance Correlation in Path-Traced Stereo:A Hidden Shortcut in Synthetic Training Data

    Jun 24, 2026Po-Ting LinSynthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationStereo Matching

    Independent Researcher · Taiwan,Tainan

  22. LinStereo: Linear-Complexity Global Attention for Multi-Scale Iterative Stereo Matching

    Jun 24, 2026Yiran Wang, Oliver Turner, Viorela IlaMulti-Scale Feature FusionStereo Matching

    Australian Centre for Robotics (ACFR), School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering (AMME), Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  23. Spherical-to-ERP Epipolar Rectification for Single-Axis Disparity in 360 Stereo

    Jun 23, 2026Sahereh Obeidavi, Dieter LandesStereo MatchingStereo Vision

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Coburg University of Applied Science, German

  24. Lite Any Stereo V2: Faster and Stronger Efficient Zero-Shot Stereo Matching

    Jun 23, 2026Junpeng Jing, Ronglai Zuo, Zhelun Shen +5Stereo MatchingStereo Depth Estimation

    Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

  25. StereoFactory: A Unified Merging Framework for Robust Stereo Matching

    Jun 16, 2026Xianda Guo, Pinhan Fu, Ruilin Wang +3Stereo MatchingTask Vector Merging

    School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · D-Star Robotics, Beijing, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China +1

  26. Benchmarking stereo reconstruction for 3D printable Martian terrain models

    Jun 9, 2026Josephine Wang3D ReconstructionStereo Matching

    MIT Cambridge, MA, USA

  27. TransTac: Visuo-Tactile Modality Transition via Ultraviolet-Encoded Transparent Elastomers

    Jun 3, 2026Lingyue Yang, Bin FangVision-Based Tactile Sensing3D Reconstruction

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China.

  28. Non-Learning Low-Light Stereo Vision

    May 29, 2026Jason Wang, Lucas Nguyen, Hyunseung Eom +2Image Corruption RobustnessStereo Matching

    Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University · Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

  29. WideDepth: Millimeter-Accurate Benchmark for Fisheye Depth Estimation

    May 22, 2026Ilia Indyk, Ignat Penshin, Ivan Sosin +3Metric Depth EstimationDepth Estimation

    Robotics Center, Moscow, Russia · AXXX, Moscow, Russia · Trusted AI Research Center, RAS, Moscow, Russia

  30. H-OmniStereo: Zero-Shot Omnidirectional Stereo Matching with Heading-Aligned Normal Priors

    May 14, 2026Chenxing Jiang, Zhe Tong, Pusen Gao +5Stereo Matching

    Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China