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arxiv: 2605.09989 · v2 · pith:HL2AJVZVnew · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.CV

StereoPolicy: Improving Robotic Manipulation Policies via Stereo Perception

Evans Han , Yunfan Jiang , Yingke Wang , Haoyue Xiao , Huang Huang , Jianwen Xie , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei
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StereoPolicy improves robotic manipulation by fusing stereo image pairs through cross-attention instead of building explicit depth maps or point clouds.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents a visuomotor policy framework that takes synchronized left and right camera images as input. Pretrained 2D encoders extract features from each view, and a cross-attention Stereo Transformer merges them to recover spatial correspondence and disparity cues implicitly. The resulting policy is then plugged into existing diffusion or vision-language-action architectures. Experiments report gains over RGB-only, RGB-D, point-cloud, and multi-view baselines on three simulation suites plus seven real-robot tabletop and bimanual tasks. A sympathetic reader would care because the method promises more reliable geometric reasoning for manipulation without the fragility of explicit 3D reconstruction pipelines.

Core claim

StereoPolicy processes each image with pretrained 2D vision encoders and fuses left-right features through a cross-attention-based Stereo Transformer, capturing spatial correspondence and disparity cues implicitly. The framework integrates with diffusion-based and pretrained vision-language-action policies and delivers consistent improvements over RGB, RGB-D, point cloud, and multi-view baselines across three simulation benchmarks and seven real-robot tabletop and bimanual mobile manipulation tasks.

What carries the argument

The Stereo Transformer, a cross-attention module that fuses left-right image features to recover spatial correspondence and disparity cues implicitly without explicit 3D reconstruction.

If this is right

  • The same stereo-fusion block can be inserted into both diffusion policies and pretrained vision-language-action models.
  • Performance gains appear in both simulated and real-world tabletop and bimanual mobile manipulation.
  • Stereo input outperforms RGB-D and point-cloud representations that rely on explicit depth estimation.
  • No additional depth supervision or 3D reconstruction step is required during training or inference.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The approach may generalize to any setting where stereo cameras are already mounted but explicit depth sensors are unreliable.
  • If the implicit cues remain stable under lighting changes or partial occlusions, stereo could become a lighter-weight substitute for depth cameras in many manipulation pipelines.
  • A natural next test would be whether the same cross-attention block improves policies that must reason about deformable objects or transparent surfaces.

Load-bearing premise

That fusing left-right features through cross-attention is sufficient to capture the spatial correspondence and disparity cues needed for precise manipulation.

What would settle it

Run the same policy with the left and right images deliberately swapped or decorrelated; if task success rates fall to the level of a single-image baseline, the claim that the fusion extracts useful stereo cues would be supported.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.09989 by Evans Han, Haoyue Xiao, Huang Huang, Jiajun Wu, Jianwen Xie, Li Fei-Fei, Ruohan Zhang, Yingke Wang, Yunfan Jiang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Compared to traditional visual modalities for robot learning, stereo input provides certain [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: StereoPolicy Pipeline. Stereo inputs are encoded by a vision backbone, fused with a Stereo Transformer, and applied to both diffusion-policy training and finetuning VLA baselines. datasets. To mitigate the limited availability of 3D data, some recent approaches aim to “lift” pre￾trained 2D vision representations into 3D representations (e.g. NeRF [57]) for 3D scene understand￾ing [58–61]. Stereo Vision in … view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Real-World Task Visualization. Top: Tabletop tasks. Bottom: Mobile manipulation tasks. 3.3 STEREOPOLICY-VLA: Adapting Monocular VLA to Stereo Inputs Pre-trained VLA models exhibit strong semantic understanding through VLM pretraining, but their depth reasoning is limited by monocular inputs. To improve spatial perception, we extend the visual input from monocular to stereo by introducing a lightweight ster… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Real-World Task Visualizations. Top: Five tabletop tasks, with the final state shown for each. Tasks 3–5 vary by cup texture. Bottom: Two mobile manipulation tasks. 2.2 STEREOPOLICY-DP: Diffusion Policy with StereoPolicy For imitation learning, we primarily adopt a diffusion policy [8] as the policy backbone. The policy predicts a sequence of continuous actions at:t+H−1 = [at, at+1, . . . , at+H−1] over a … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Simulation Task Visualization, from three benchmarks: OMNIGIBSON (4 tasks), ROBO￾CASA (24 tasks), and ROBOMIMIC (3 tasks). Real-World We consider 7 tasks spanning tabletop manipulation (Banana PnP, Toast Insert, Cup Hang, Steel Cup Hang, Glass Cup Hang) and mobile manipulation (PnP Toast, Turn on Radio), visualized in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Simulation Task Visualization, from three benchmarks: OMNIGIBSON (4 tasks), ROBO￾CASA (24 tasks), and ROBOMIMIC (3 tasks). Q1. How does StereoPolicy perform compared to monocular RGB, RGB-D, point cloud, and multi￾view-based policies? Q2. Can StereoPolicy be readily combined with large pre-trained policy models, such as vision￾language-action (VLA) models, although these models are trained on monocular RGB… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: RGB-D and PCD are fragile in real. Glass cup is entirely missing. Evaluation For real-robot evaluation, we report the average success rate over 20 trials, with ran￾domized initial poses. For simulation tasks, we perform 50 rollouts at every 50 training epochs for Robomimic tasks, and every 250 training epochs for Omnigibson tasks. The highest suc￾cess rate achieved across training is reported. 6 [PITH_FUL… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: RGB-D and PCD are fragile in real environment. Glass cup is entirely missing. However, point cloud–based methods perform poorly overall: real-world depth measurements are often noisy (See [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: STEREOPOLICY-VLA (Pi0.5) Per￾formance on Bimanual Mobile Manipulation Tasks in both real-world and simulation. (Q2) StereoPolicy enhances pretrained VLA models, despite these models are trained on monocular data. We next examine the STEREOPOLICY-VLA, where StereoPolicy is incorpo￾rated into a state-of-the-art pre-trained VLA model, Pi0.5 and GR00T-N1.5 for fine-tuning. As summarized in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:fi… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: STEREOPOLICY-VLA (Pi0.5) Perfor￾mance on bimanual mobile manipulation tasks in both real-world and simulation. summarized in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Performance of STEREOPOLICY-DP across different camera angles. (Q3) STEREOPOLICY-DP is most effective when the baseline is approximately 10% of the tar￾get object distance. We vary the stereo baseline distance (2cm, 6cm, 10cm) and camera–object distance (0.6m–1.0m) while keeping other conditions fixed. Results show that performance is gov￾erned not by either factor alone, but by their ratio: r = stereo bas… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Performance of STEREOPOLICY-DP across different camera angles. (Q3) STEREOPOLICY-DP is most effective when the baseline is approximately 10% of the tar￾get object distance. We vary the stereo baseline distance (2cm, 6cm, 10cm) and camera–object distance (0.6m–1.0m) while keeping other conditions fixed. Results show that performance is gov￾erned not by either factor alone, but by their ratio: r = stereo bas… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Vision Encoder and Component Ablation. Ex￾periments on ToolHang task with 100 demos. (Q4) The choice of vision backbone significantly influences STEREOPOLICY-DP ’s perfor￾mance, particularly in low-data regimes. To explore the most effective vision backbone for robot manipulation, we evaluate several architectures on the TOOLHANG task. As shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Effect of Stereo Baseline and Distance on Task Success Rate [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Trajectory of Real-world Tabletop Tasks. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Stereo camera views across different baselines and distances. Baseline indicates the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Camera angle view visualization. Experimental results are [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Camera angle view visualization. Experimental results are [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Failure cases of baseline visual modalities on real-world tabletop tasks. RGB, RGB-D, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Monocular RGB failures in bimanual mobile manipulation. In the T [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Monocular RGB failures in bimanual mobile manipulation. In the T [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_15.png] view at source ↗
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Recent advances in robot imitation learning have produced powerful visuomotor policies that manipulate diverse objects from visual inputs. However, monocular observations lack depth information, which is critical for precise manipulation in cluttered or geometrically complex scenes. Explicit depth maps and point clouds are often noisy and fragile in real-world manipulation. We introduce StereoPolicy, a visuomotor policy learning framework that directly leverages synchronized stereo image pairs to improve geometric reasoning without constructing explicit 3D representations. StereoPolicy processes each image with pretrained 2D vision encoders and fuses left-right features through a cross-attention-based Stereo Transformer, capturing spatial correspondence and disparity cues implicitly. The framework integrates with diffusion-based and pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policies, delivering consistent improvements over RGB, RGB-D, point cloud, and multi-view baselines across three simulation benchmarks and seven real-robot tabletop and bimanual mobile manipulation tasks. Our results show that stereo vision bridges 2D pretrained representations and 3D geometric understanding for robotic manipulation.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces StereoPolicy, a visuomotor policy framework that processes synchronized stereo image pairs using pretrained 2D vision encoders whose features are fused via a cross-attention Stereo Transformer. It claims this implicit capture of spatial correspondence and disparity yields consistent improvements over RGB, RGB-D, point-cloud, and multi-view baselines when integrated with diffusion-based and VLA policies, demonstrated across three simulation benchmarks and seven real-robot tabletop and bimanual tasks without explicit 3D reconstruction or depth supervision.

Significance. If the performance gains are shown to arise specifically from stereo correspondence rather than extra capacity or dataset correlations, the approach would offer a lightweight route to geometric reasoning that avoids the noise and calibration issues of explicit depth sensors, bridging pretrained 2D representations with manipulation needs.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Stereo Transformer): the architecture description provides no epipolar constraint, correspondence loss, or verification that cross-attention aligns left-right features to corresponding points rather than learning spurious correlations; without such a mechanism the attribution of gains over RGB-D baselines to stereo geometry remains unverified.
  2. [§4] §4 (Experiments): the reported improvements lack error bars, statistical significance tests, or controls (e.g., shuffled stereo pairs) that would isolate whether the cross-attention exploits disparity cues; this directly affects the central claim that stereo input is responsible for outperformance.
  3. [Table 2] Table 2 (real-robot results): the comparison to RGB-D and point-cloud baselines does not report whether those baselines used the same pretrained encoders or identical training protocols, making it impossible to attribute differences solely to the stereo fusion module.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states 'consistent improvements' without any quantitative values; move at least one key metric (e.g., success-rate delta) into the abstract for immediate clarity.
  2. [Eq. (3)] Notation for the cross-attention operation in Eq. (3) uses undefined symbols for query/key projections; add an explicit definition or reference to the standard multi-head attention formula.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and outline revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Stereo Transformer): the architecture description provides no epipolar constraint, correspondence loss, or verification that cross-attention aligns left-right features to corresponding points rather than learning spurious correlations; without such a mechanism the attribution of gains over RGB-D baselines to stereo geometry remains unverified.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the Stereo Transformer relies on cross-attention to capture correspondences implicitly without explicit epipolar constraints or auxiliary losses. This design choice preserves the use of pretrained 2D encoders without additional supervision. To verify the role of alignment, we will add an ablation with shuffled stereo pairs in the revised experiments to show that gains require correct left-right pairing rather than spurious correlations. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): the reported improvements lack error bars, statistical significance tests, or controls (e.g., shuffled stereo pairs) that would isolate whether the cross-attention exploits disparity cues; this directly affects the central claim that stereo input is responsible for outperformance.

    Authors: We agree that greater statistical rigor and controls are needed. In the revision we will report means and standard deviations over multiple random seeds, include appropriate significance tests, and add the shuffled-pairs control experiment to isolate disparity exploitation. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Table 2] Table 2 (real-robot results): the comparison to RGB-D and point-cloud baselines does not report whether those baselines used the same pretrained encoders or identical training protocols, making it impossible to attribute differences solely to the stereo fusion module.

    Authors: The RGB-D and point-cloud baselines used identical pretrained encoders, training protocols, and hyperparameters as StereoPolicy (detailed in §4.1). We will explicitly state this equivalence in the experimental setup and add a clarifying sentence to the Table 2 caption. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper presents StereoPolicy as an empirical framework that processes stereo pairs via pretrained 2D encoders and cross-attention fusion, then reports performance gains on simulation benchmarks and real-robot tasks. No derivation chain, equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation load-bearing steps appear in the provided text. The central claim is externally falsifiable via direct comparison to RGB, RGB-D, point-cloud, and multi-view baselines, making the result self-contained rather than reducing to its own inputs by construction.

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Abstract-only review supplies no equations, fitted constants, or new entities; the central claim rests on the unstated assumption that cross-attention on stereo pairs yields usable disparity information.

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