StereoAdapter: Adapting Stereo Depth Estimation to Underwater Scenes

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Auteurs principaux: Wu, Zhengri, Wang, Yiran, Wen, Yu, Zhang, Zeyu, Wu, Biao, Tang, Hao
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author Wu, Zhengri
Wang, Yiran
Wen, Yu
Zhang, Zeyu
Wu, Biao
Tang, Hao
author_facet Wu, Zhengri
Wang, Yiran
Wen, Yu
Zhang, Zeyu
Wu, Biao
Tang, Hao
contents Underwater stereo depth estimation provides accurate 3D geometry for robotics tasks such as navigation, inspection, and mapping, offering metric depth from low-cost passive cameras while avoiding the scale ambiguity of monocular methods. However, existing approaches face two critical challenges: (i) parameter-efficiently adapting large vision foundation encoders to the underwater domain without extensive labeled data, and (ii) tightly fusing globally coherent but scale-ambiguous monocular priors with locally metric yet photometrically fragile stereo correspondences. To address these challenges, we propose StereoAdapter, a parameter-efficient self-supervised framework that integrates a LoRA-adapted monocular foundation encoder with a recurrent stereo refinement module. We further introduce dynamic LoRA adaptation for efficient rank selection and pre-training on the synthetic UW-StereoDepth-40K dataset to enhance robustness under diverse underwater conditions. Comprehensive evaluations on both simulated and real-world benchmarks show improvements of 6.11% on TartanAir and 5.12% on SQUID compared to state-of-the-art methods, while real-world deployment with the BlueROV2 robot further demonstrates the consistent robustness of our approach. Code: https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/StereoAdapter. Website: https://aigeeksgroup.github.io/StereoAdapter.
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Wu, Zhengri
Wang, Yiran
Wen, Yu
Zhang, Zeyu
Wu, Biao
Tang, Hao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Underwater stereo depth estimation provides accurate 3D geometry for robotics tasks such as navigation, inspection, and mapping, offering metric depth from low-cost passive cameras while avoiding the scale ambiguity of monocular methods. However, existing approaches face two critical challenges: (i) parameter-efficiently adapting large vision foundation encoders to the underwater domain without extensive labeled data, and (ii) tightly fusing globally coherent but scale-ambiguous monocular priors with locally metric yet photometrically fragile stereo correspondences. To address these challenges, we propose StereoAdapter, a parameter-efficient self-supervised framework that integrates a LoRA-adapted monocular foundation encoder with a recurrent stereo refinement module. We further introduce dynamic LoRA adaptation for efficient rank selection and pre-training on the synthetic UW-StereoDepth-40K dataset to enhance robustness under diverse underwater conditions. Comprehensive evaluations on both simulated and real-world benchmarks show improvements of 6.11% on TartanAir and 5.12% on SQUID compared to state-of-the-art methods, while real-world deployment with the BlueROV2 robot further demonstrates the consistent robustness of our approach. Code: https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/StereoAdapter. Website: https://aigeeksgroup.github.io/StereoAdapter.
title StereoAdapter: Adapting Stereo Depth Estimation to Underwater Scenes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16415