arXiv Computer Vision By Bin Zhao, Patrick Chiou, Nakul Garg

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

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GRADE is a method for estimating high‑fidelity metric depth from a single radar frame, even when visual sensors fail due to smoke, fog, or darkness. It first converts raw 4D radar spectra into coarse depth, then uses a latent diffusion model conditioned on this estimate to recover fine structural detail. A pixel‑space adapter incorporates any available camera cues and is trained across clear, smoke‑degraded, and occluded inputs, allowing the output to rely more on radar as visibility worsens. On a dataset of ~95K frames from 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.

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