STEREOFLOW: Progressive Stereo Matching with StereoDiT and Transition Flow Matching
2607.19986

Authors

Hao Wang,Jing Tang,Songlin Wei,Linlong Lang,Yeying Jin

Abstract

Stereo matching is a fundamental task in 3D reconstruction. Despite remarkable advances, the prevailing paradigms formulate stereo matching as a deterministic regression problem, collapsing the multimodal distribution modeling into a single-point estimation.

This formulation suffers from a regression-to-mean bias, frequently struggling with ambiguous regions. In contrast, we introduce a prior-guided generative framework that integrates deterministic matching regression and generative distribution modeling within a complementary formulation.

Built upon this formulation, we introduce StereoFlow through three key components: (i) a two-stage progressive cascade matching network that progressively produces multi-resolution stereo conditions with complementary matching cues; (ii) a pixel diffusion transformer (termed StereoDiT) with a frequency-decoupled architecture for modeling correspondence ambiguity; (iii) a few-step flow matching objective (termed Transition Flow Matching) for efficient optimization. In summary, \textsc{StereoFlow} achieves strong geometric consistency and rich fine-grained details in ill-posed, discontinuous regions and under zero-shot generalization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed StereoFlow establishes multiple state-of-the-art results across benchmarks, including Scene Flow, KITTI, ETH3D, and Middlebury.

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