GRADE: Single-Frame Generative Radar Depth Estimation Under Visual Degradation
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 inpu...
| Authors | Bin Zhao, Patrick Chiou, Nakul Garg |
|---|---|
| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 9 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 9 September 2026 |
Connected in the knowledge graph
- phi-lab-rice/GRADE_DatasetDataset · cited by
Models and datasets referencing this paper
- phi-lab-rice/GRADE_DatasetDataset
Silytics shows public metadata from arXiv and links to the original. Information may be incomplete or out of date. Last refreshed 17 October 2026. Licenses and terms of the original apply to the work itself. Not financial, legal or professional advice.