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Enhancing Glass Surface Reconstruction via Depth Prior for Robot Navigation

Robotics 2026-05-07 v2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Indoor robot navigation is often compromised by glass surfaces, which severely corrupt depth sensor measurements. While foundation models like Depth Anything 3 provide excellent geometric priors, they lack an absolute metric scale. We propose a training-free framework that leverages depth foundation models as a structural prior, employing a robust local RANSAC-based alignment to fuse it with raw sensor depth. This naturally avoids contamination from erroneous glass measurements and recovers an accurate metric scale. Furthermore, we introduce \ti{GlassRecon}, a novel RGB-D dataset with geometrically derived ground truth for glass regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, especially under severe sensor depth corruption. The dataset and related code will be released at https://github.com/jarvisyjw/GlassRecon.

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@article{arxiv.2604.18336,
  title  = {Enhancing Glass Surface Reconstruction via Depth Prior for Robot Navigation},
  author = {Jiamin Zheng and Jingwen Yu and Guangcheng Chen and Hong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18336},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, 8 figures

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