# Multi-view stereo and depth estimation

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## Key facts

- Multi-view stereo and depth estimation: 195 papers on arXiv since 2021 (data through 19 Oct 2026).
- 43 of its 195 mapped papers (22%) cite “AA-RMVSNet: Adaptive Aggregation Recurrent Multi-view Stereo Network” (2021, arXiv 2108.03824).
- 37 of its 195 mapped papers (19%) cite “TransMVSNet: Global Context-aware Multi-view Stereo Network with Transformers” (2021, arXiv 2111.14600).

## Most cited here

- [AA-RMVSNet: Adaptive Aggregation Recurrent Multi-view Stereo Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.03824/) (2021), cited by 43 papers here
- [TransMVSNet: Global Context-aware Multi-view Stereo Network with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.14600/) (2021), cited by 37 papers here
- [Rethinking Depth Estimation for Multi-View Stereo: A Unified Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.01501/) (2022), cited by 33 papers here
- [IterMVS: Iterative Probability Estimation for Efficient Multi-View Stereo](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.05126/) (2021), cited by 26 papers here
- [Generalized Binary Search Network for Highly-Efficient Multi-View Stereo](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.02338/) (2021), cited by 25 papers here
- [MVSTER: Epipolar Transformer for Efficient Multi-View Stereo](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.07346/) (2022), cited by 22 papers here
- [MVSFormer: Multi-View Stereo by Learning Robust Image Features and Temperature-based Depth](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.02541/) (2022), cited by 21 papers here
- [MVS2D: Efficient Multi-view Stereo via Attention-Driven 2D Convolutions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.13325/) (2021), cited by 16 papers here
- [MVSFormer++: Revealing the Devil in Transformer's Details for Multi-View Stereo](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.11673/) (2024), cited by 16 papers here
- [PatchMatch-RL: Deep MVS with Pixelwise Depth, Normal, and Visibility](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.08943/) (2021), cited by 14 papers here