GRADE: Single-Frame Generative Radar Depth Estimation Under Visual Degradation

📅 2026-09-09
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为解决烟雾、雾霾和黑暗条件下光学传感器无法准确感知3D深度的问题,GRADE通过结合单帧雷达数据与生成模型估计高精度深度。
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Dense 3D depth perception fails under smoke, fog, and darkness because optical sensors cannot penetrate airborne particulates. mmWave radar remains usable and measures range accurately under these conditions, but its small aperture limits angular resolution. We present GRADE, which grounds a pretrained generative prior in single-frame radar geometry to estimate high-fidelity metric depth. GRADE first maps raw 4D radar spectra to coarse metric depth. A latent diffusion backbone then recovers structural detail while conditioning every denoising step on this estimate. A pixel-space adapter uses residual camera cues when available and is trained across clear, smoke-degraded, and occluded inputs so the full output approaches the radar-conditioned path as visibility degrades. Trained and evaluated on ~95K frames across 12 buildings with real smoke, GRADE achieves an MAE of 0.303 m in clear scenes and 0.313 m under smoke, outperforming existing baselines. Code and datasets are available at https://phi-lab-rice.github.io/GRADE.
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3D depth perception
visual degradation
mmWave radar
angular resolution
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single-frame radar geometry
latent diffusion backbone
pixel-space adapter
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