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

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 9, 2026 · UTC

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 r

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