StereoAdapter: Adapting Stereo Depth Estimation to
Underwater Scenes

Zhengri Wu1* Yiran Wang2* Yu Wen1* Zeyu Zhang3*† Biao Wu1 Hao Tang3‡
1 AI Geeks    2 Australian Centre for Robotics    3 Peking University
* Equal contribution.    Project lead.    Corresponding author.

[Paper]      [Code]     [Dataset]     [Model]

TL;DR: StereoAdapter is a self-supervised adaptive model that allows robust underwater depth estimation.

Real World Results

We evaluate StereoAdapter on a BlueROV2 across three obstacle layouts and three motion trajectories.

BEV
Right Camera
Left Camera
Ground Truth
StereoAdapter

Layout #1

Layout #2

Layout #3

Method

Detailed architecture of the StereoAdapter: (a) two-stage self-supervised training pipeline; (b) update mechanism with LoRA.

Benchmark Results

Visualization results of Stereo Depth Estimation Methods on SQUID and TartanAir.

UW-StereoDepth-40K

Example from the high-quality UW-StereoDepth-40K dataset.

StereoAdapter: Adapting Stereo Depth Estimation to Underwater Scenes