LiteMatch: Lightweight Zero-Shot Stereo Matching via Cost Volume Stabilization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31636v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:20:08 GMT
• Title: LiteMatch: Lightweight Zero-Shot Stereo Matching via Cost Volume Stabilization
• Abstract summary: We present textitLiteMatch, a lightweight stereo matching framework that achieves strong zero-shot generalization without expensive 3D convolutions.<n>LiteMatch employs two complementary encoders: a Cross-View Correspondence (CVCE) to capture global cross-view interactions, and a High-Frequency Driving (HFE) that enhances fine structural details via FFT-based frequency cues.<n>With a flexible design ranging from 3.36M to 9.58M parameters, LiteMatch achieves exceptional zero-shot generalization, delivering competitive EPE and D1 performance across Scene Flow, KITTI, Middlebury, ETH3D
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite rapid progress in learning-based stereo matching, high accuracy is often achieved at the cost of heavy backbones and computationally intensive 3D cost volume processing, resulting in substantial memory and runtime overhead. More critically, these methods frequently struggle to generalize across domains, limiting their practical deployment. We present \textit{LiteMatch}, a lightweight stereo matching framework that achieves strong zero-shot generalization through cost volume stabilization-without expensive 3D convolutions. LiteMatch employs two complementary encoders: a Cross-View Correspondence Encoder (CVCE) to capture global cross-view interactions, and a High-Frequency Encoder (HFE) that enhances fine structural details via FFT-based frequency cues. To stabilize the cost volume, we introduce the \textit{Cost Volume Consistency Loss (CVC-Loss)}, a voxel-wise binary cross-entropy objective applied to softmax-normalized cost distributions. By encouraging sharp and unimodal disparity probabilities, CVC-Loss promotes stable cost distributions and enables rapid convergence. A lightweight refinement module further produces sharp full-resolution disparities with low-iteration updates, avoiding heavy recurrent refinement. With a flexible design ranging from 3.36M to 9.58M parameters, LiteMatch achieves exceptional zero-shot generalization, delivering competitive EPE and D1 performance across Scene Flow, KITTI, Middlebury, ETH3D, and DrivingStereo. Our results establish that lightweight architectures can indeed generalize across domains without sacrificing accuracy. \href{https://mdraqibkhan.github.io/Litematch}{\textcolor{blue}{Code}}

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