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. Cross-Modal RGB-D Fusion Transformer for 6D Pose Estimation of Non-Cooperative Spacecraft with Stereo-Derived Depth

    May 9, 2026Yongliang Zhen, Bo LÜ, Hang Yang +1Object Pose EstimationStereo Matching

    School of Physics, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China · Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130033, China

  2. Low-Cost Stereo Vision for Robust 3D Positioning of Thin Radiata Pine Branches in Autonomous Drone Pruning

    May 6, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Aerial RoboticsStereo Matching

    Centre of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence & School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand · Computer Vision Research Lab & Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Canterbury University, PO Box 8041, Christchurch, New Zealand

  3. MLG-Stereo: ViT Based Stereo Matching with Multi-Stage Local-Global Enhancement

    Apr 22, 2026Haoyu Zhang, Jingyi Zhou, Peng Ye +4Vision TransformerMulti-Scale Feature Fusion

    Embedded Deep Learning and Visual Analysis Laboratory, College of Future Information Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China · Embedded Deep Learning and Visual Analysis Laboratory, College of Future Information Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China, and also with Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai 200232, China, and also with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai 200232, China +2

  4. Bidirectional Cross-Modal Prompting for Event-Frame Asymmetric Stereo

    Apr 16, 2026Ninghui Xu, Fabio Tosi, Lihui Wang +5Event-Based VisionCross-Modal Alignment

    School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, State Key Lab of Comprehensive PNT Network and Equipment Technology, Key Lab of Micro-Inertial Instrument and Advanced Navigation Technology, MOE · University of Bologna · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna +2

  5. M3D-Stereo: A Multiple-Medium and Multiple-Degradation Dataset for Stereo Image Restoration

    Apr 14, 2026Deqing Yang, Yingying Liu, Qicong Wang +3Image RestorationStereo Matching

    Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, China

  6. SMFormer: Empowering Self-supervised Stereo Matching via Foundation Models and Data Augmentation

    Apr 11, 2026Yun Wang, Zhengjie Yang, Jiahao Zheng +3Stereo MatchingData Augmentation

    Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China · Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, China +1

  7. Geometry Reinforced Efficient Attention Tuning Equipped with Normals for Robust Stereo Matching

    Apr 10, 2026Jiahao Li, Xinhong Chen, Zhengmin Jiang +3Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationStereo Matching

    Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Department of Computer Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75205, USA · Hon Hai Research Institute

  8. Object-Centric Stereo Ranging for Autonomous Driving: From Dense Disparity to Census-Based Template Matching

    Apr 9, 2026Qihao HuangStereo MatchingAutonomous Driving Perception

  9. SimpleProc: Fully Procedural Synthetic Data from Simple Rules for Multi-View Stereo

    Apr 6, 2026Zeyu Ma, Alexander Raistrick, Jia DengSynthetic Data GenerationMulti-View 3D Reconstruction

    Princeton University

  10. EventHub: Data Factory for Generalizable Event-Based Stereo Networks without Active Sensors

    Apr 2, 2026Luca Bartolomei, Fabio Tosi, Matteo Poggi +2Event-Based VisionStereo Matching

    Advanced Research Center on Electronic System (ARCES) · Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), University of Bologna, Italy · TU Berlin, Robotics Institute Germany, Einstein Center Digital Future, SCIoI Excellence Cluster, Germany

  11. StereoVGGT: A Training-Free Visual Geometry Transformer for Stereo Vision

    Mar 31, 2026Ziyang Chen, Yansong Qu, You Shen +2Stereo VisionStereo Matching

    Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, Xiamen University

  12. BINO: Encoder Centric Self Supervised Stereo With Native Pair Input

    Mar 29, 2026Haokun ZhouVisual Representation LearningStereo Matching

    Imperial College London

  13. Real-Time Branch-to-Tool Distance Estimation for Autonomous UAV Pruning: Benchmarking Five DEFOM-Stereo Variants from Simulation to Jetson Deployment

    Mar 27, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Metric Depth 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

  14. WAFT-Stereo: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Stereo Matching

    Mar 25, 2026Yihan Wang, Jia DengStereo MatchingStereo Vision

    Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

  15. Deep S2P: Integrating Learning Based Stereo Matching Into the Satellite Stereo Pipeline

    Mar 23, 2026Elías Masquil, Thibaud Ehret, Pablo Musé +1Stereo MatchingRemote Sensing

    AMIAD, Pôle Recherche, France · Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, 91190, Gif-sur-Yvette, France · Institut Universitaire de France

  16. Reference-Free Omnidirectional Stereo Matching via Multi-View Consistency Maximization

    Mar 16, 2026Lehuai Xu, Weiming Zhang, Yang Li +2Panoramic Depth EstimationStereo Matching

    Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · HKUST(GZ), Guangzhou, China

  17. UE5-Forest: A Photorealistic Synthetic Stereo Dataset for UAV Forestry Depth Estimation

    Mar 13, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Depth EstimationSynthetic Data Generation for Robotics

    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

  18. PromptStereo: Zero-Shot Stereo Matching via Structure and Motion Prompts

    Mar 2, 2026Xianqi Wang, Hao Yang, Hangtian Wang +4Stereo MatchingVisual Prompt Learning

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Optics Valley Laboratory

  19. Pip-Stereo: Progressive Iterations Pruner for Iterative Optimization based Stereo Matching

    Feb 24, 2026Jintu Zheng, Qizhe Liu, HuangXin Xu +1Stereo MatchingStereo Depth Estimation

    ARIDGE XPENG

  20. Training Deep Stereo Matching Networks on Tree Branch Imagery: A Benchmark Study for Real-Time UAV Forestry Applications

    Feb 23, 2026Yida Lin, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang +2Stereo MatchingStereo Depth Estimation

    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

  21. StereoAdapter-2: Globally Structure-Consistent Underwater Stereo Depth Estimation

    Feb 18, 2026Zeyu Ren, Xiang Li, Yiran Wang +2Depth EstimationStereo Vision

    The University of Melbourne · Peking University · Australian Centre for Robotics

  22. SurfSLAM: Sim-to-Real Underwater Stereo Reconstruction For Real-Time SLAM

    Jan 15, 2026Onur Bagoren, Seth Isaacson, Sacchin Sundar +6Simultaneous Localization and MappingMetric Depth Estimation

    Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

  23. MatchAttention: Embedding Explicit Matching Constraints into Attention for Efficient Stereo Matching

    Oct 16, 2025Tingman Yan, Tao Liu, Chenghao Li +4Image MatchingStereo Matching

    School of Control Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China · Pika Labs · Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China +1

  24. MAGIC: Learning from Visibility Asymmetry for Unsupervised Stereo Matching

    Aug 14, 2025Peng Xu, Zhiyu XiangStereo MatchingOcclusion Reasoning

    College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering (ISEE) Zhejiang University, China

  25. Preserving Guidance in Cost-Volume Retrieval under Extreme LiDAR Sparsity in Iterative Stereo

    Jul 26, 2025Jinsu Yoo, Sooyoung Jeon, Zanming Huang +2Camera-LiDAR FusionStereo Matching

    The Ohio State University

  26. ESMStereo: Enhanced ShuffleMixer Disparity Upsampling for Real-Time and Accurate Stereo Matching

    Jun 26, 2025Mahmoud Tahmasebi, Saif Huq, Kevin Meehan +1Stereo Matching

    Center for Mathematical Modelling and Intelligent Systems for Health and Environment (MISHE) · Department of Engineering and Physics

  27. Motif Channel Opened in a White-Box: Stereo Matching via Motif Correlation Graph

    Nov 19, 2024Ziyang Chen, Yongjun Zhang, Wenting Li +3Representation LearningStereo Matching

    College of Computer Science, the State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China · School of Information Engineering, Guizhou University of Commerce, Guiyang 550021, China · School of Software, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China +2