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Main Authors: Shen, Zhelun, Li, Zhuo, Wu, Chenming, Rao, Zhibo, Liu, Lina, Dai, Yuchao, Zhang, Liangjun
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21302
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author Shen, Zhelun
Li, Zhuo
Wu, Chenming
Rao, Zhibo
Liu, Lina
Dai, Yuchao
Zhang, Liangjun
author_facet Shen, Zhelun
Li, Zhuo
Wu, Chenming
Rao, Zhibo
Liu, Lina
Dai, Yuchao
Zhang, Liangjun
contents Recently, learning-based stereo matching methods have achieved great improvement in public benchmarks, where soft argmin and smooth L1 loss play a core contribution to their success. However, in unsupervised domain adaptation scenarios, we observe that these two operations often yield multimodal disparity probability distributions in target domains, resulting in degraded generalization. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, Constrain Multi-modal Distribution (CMD), to address this issue. Specifically, we introduce \textit{uncertainty-regularized minimization} and \textit{anisotropic soft argmin} to encourage the network to produce predominantly unimodal disparity distributions in the target domain, thereby improving prediction accuracy. Experimentally, we apply the proposed method to multiple representative stereo-matching networks and conduct domain adaptation from synthetic data to unlabeled real-world scenes. Results consistently demonstrate improved generalization in both top-performing and domain-adaptable stereo-matching models. The code for CMD will be available at: \href{https://github.com/gallenszl/CMD}{https://github.com/gallenszl/CMD}.
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spellingShingle CMD: Constraining Multimodal Distribution for Domain Adaptation in Stereo Matching
Shen, Zhelun
Li, Zhuo
Wu, Chenming
Rao, Zhibo
Liu, Lina
Dai, Yuchao
Zhang, Liangjun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Recently, learning-based stereo matching methods have achieved great improvement in public benchmarks, where soft argmin and smooth L1 loss play a core contribution to their success. However, in unsupervised domain adaptation scenarios, we observe that these two operations often yield multimodal disparity probability distributions in target domains, resulting in degraded generalization. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, Constrain Multi-modal Distribution (CMD), to address this issue. Specifically, we introduce \textit{uncertainty-regularized minimization} and \textit{anisotropic soft argmin} to encourage the network to produce predominantly unimodal disparity distributions in the target domain, thereby improving prediction accuracy. Experimentally, we apply the proposed method to multiple representative stereo-matching networks and conduct domain adaptation from synthetic data to unlabeled real-world scenes. Results consistently demonstrate improved generalization in both top-performing and domain-adaptable stereo-matching models. The code for CMD will be available at: \href{https://github.com/gallenszl/CMD}{https://github.com/gallenszl/CMD}.
title CMD: Constraining Multimodal Distribution for Domain Adaptation in Stereo Matching
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21302