Title
Hierarchical Stereo Matching in Two-Scale Space for Cyber-Physical System.
Abstract
Dense disparity map estimation from a high-resolution stereo image is a very difficult problem in terms of both matching accuracy and computation efficiency. Thus, an exhaustive disparity search at full resolution is required. In general, examining more pixels in the stereo view results in more ambiguous correspondences. When a high-resolution image is down-sampled, the high-frequency components of the fine-scaled image are at risk of disappearing in the coarse-resolution image. Furthermore, if erroneous disparity estimates caused by missing high-frequency components are propagated across scale space, ultimately, false disparity estimates are obtained. To solve these problems, we introduce an efficient hierarchical stereo matching method in two-scale space. This method applies disparity estimation to the reduced-resolution image, and the disparity result is then up-sampled to the original resolution. The disparity estimation values of the high-frequency (or edge component) regions of the full-resolution image are combined with the up-sampled disparity results. In this study, we extracted the high-frequency areas from the scale-space representation by using difference of Gaussian (DoG) or found edge components, using a Canny operator. Then, edge-aware disparity propagation was used to refine the disparity map. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms previous methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/s17071680
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
stereo matching,scale space image,disparity map,difference of Gaussian,Canny edge detector,cost aggregation
Stereo matching,Canny edge detector,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Scale space,Cyber-physical system,Pixel,Operator (computer programming),Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Computation,Difference of Gaussians
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
17
7.0
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eunah Choi120.38
Sangyoon Lee221638.71
Hyun-ki Hong36414.17