README.md

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license: bsd-3-clause
pipeline_tag: depth-estimation
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# WAFT-Stereo: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Stereo Matching

WAFT-Stereo is a simple and effective warping-based method for stereo matching. It demonstrates that cost volumes, a common design used in many leading methods, are not necessary for strong performance and can be replaced by warping with improved efficiency. 

WAFT-Stereo ranks first on ETH3D, KITTI and Middlebury public benchmarks, reducing the zero-shot error by 81% on ETH3D benchmark, while being 1.8-6.7x faster than competitive methods.

- **Paper:** [WAFT-Stereo: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Stereo Matching](https://huggingface.co/papers/2603.24836)
- **Repository:** [https://github.com/princeton-vl/WAFT-Stereo](https://github.com/princeton-vl/WAFT-Stereo)

## Citation

If you find WAFT-Stereo useful for your work, please consider citing the paper:

```bibtex
@misc{wang2026waftstereowarpingalonefieldtransforms,
      title={WAFT-Stereo: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Stereo Matching}, 
      author={Yihan Wang and Jia Deng},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2603.24836},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24836}, 
}
```