CCNeXt: An Effective Self-Supervised Stereo Depth Estimation Approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22627v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:51:28 GMT
• Title: CCNeXt: An Effective Self-Supervised Stereo Depth Estimation Approach
• Authors: Alexandre Lopes, Roberto Souza, Helio Pedrini,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel self-supervised convolutional approach for depth estimation.<n>The proposed CCNeXt architecture employs a modern CNN feature extractor with a novel windowed epipolar cross-attention module in the encoder.<n>Our experiments demonstrate that CCNeXt achieves competitive metrics while being 10.18$times$ faster than the current best model.
• Score: 44.23836177312291
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Depth Estimation plays a crucial role in recent applications in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality. These scenarios commonly operate under constraints imposed by computational power. Stereo image pairs offer an effective solution for depth estimation since it only needs to estimate the disparity of pixels in image pairs to determine the depth in a known rectified system. Due to the difficulty in acquiring reliable ground-truth depth data across diverse scenarios, self-supervised techniques emerge as a solution, particularly when large unlabeled datasets are available. We propose a novel self-supervised convolutional approach that outperforms existing state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) while balancing computational cost. The proposed CCNeXt architecture employs a modern CNN feature extractor with a novel windowed epipolar cross-attention module in the encoder, complemented by a comprehensive redesign of the depth estimation decoder. Our experiments demonstrate that CCNeXt achieves competitive metrics on the KITTI Eigen Split test data while being 10.18$\times$ faster than the current best model and achieves state-of-the-art results in all metrics in the KITTI Eigen Split Improved Ground Truth and Driving Stereo datasets when compared to recently proposed techniques. To ensure complete reproducibility, our project is accessible at \href{https://github.com/alelopes/CCNext}{\texttt{https://github.com/alelopes/CCNext}}.

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