Lite Any Stereo V2: Faster and Stronger Efficient Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
About
Recent advances in stereo matching have achieved remarkable accuracy, but often rely on large models, heavy computation, or additional foundation-model priors, making them difficult to deploy on resource-constrained platforms. In contrast, efficient stereo models offer faster inference but are commonly considered less capable of strong zero-shot generalization. In this paper, we challenge this assumption by introducing Lite Any Stereo V2 (LAS2), an ultra-fast model series designed for efficient zero-shot stereo matching. LAS2 is developed from both architecture and training perspectives. Architecturally, we revisit efficient stereo design under practical deployment settings and propose a 2D-only cost aggregation framework, optimized for real inference latency rather than theoretical MACs alone. For training, we develop a three-stage strategy that combines synthetic supervision, self-distillation, and real-world knowledge distillation. To improve the reliability of real-world pseudo supervision, we further introduce pseudo-label filtering and an error-clamping operation, enabling smoother synthetic-to-real transfer. We instantiate LAS2 as a family of models, including feed-forward variants for different efficiency budgets and an iterative variant for higher accuracy. Extensive experiments show that LAS2 achieves state-of-the-art accuracy among efficient stereo methods while maintaining significantly lower latency. Specifically, LAS2-H achieves stronger overall zero-shot performance than the iterative method Fast-FoundationStereo, with 1.8x and 2.7x faster inference on H200 and Orin, respectively. The project page, demos, and code are available at https://tomtomtommi.github.io/LiteAnyStereoV2/.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stereo Matching | KITTI 2015 | -- | 142 | |
| Stereo Matching | KITTI 2012 | -- | 108 | |
| Stereo Matching | ETH3D | bad 1.01.83 | 95 | |
| Stereo Matching | Middlebury Half resolution (H) | Bad2.0 Error Rate3.71 | 30 | |
| Stereo Matching | DrivingStereo Cloudy | D1 Error2.76 | 27 | |
| Stereo Matching | DrivingStereo (foggy) | D1 Error5.51 | 27 | |
| Stereo Matching | DrivingStereo Rainy | D1 Error17.38 | 27 | |
| Stereo Matching | DrivingStereo Weather Sunny | D1 Error2.99 | 18 | |
| Stereo Matching | DrivingStereo Weather Overall | D1 Error7.23 | 18 | |
| Inference Latency | 384 x 1248 (RTX 4090) | Latency (ms)11.5 | 15 |