Stereo by Two-Level Dynamic Programming

August 1985

Stereo by Two-Level Dynamic Programming

Authors:

Y. Ohta and Takeo Kanade

Abstract:

This paper presents a stereo algorithm using dynamic programming technique. The stereo matching problem, that is, obtaining a correspondence between right and left images, can be cast as a search problem. When a pair of stereo images is rectified, pairs of corresponding points can be searched for within the same scanlines. We call this search intra-scanline search. This intra-scanline search can be treated as the problem of finding a matching path on a two dimensional (2D) search plane whose axes are the right and left scanlines. Vertically connected edges in the images provide consistency constraints across the 2D search planes. Inter-scanline search in a three-dimensional (3D) search space, which is a stack of the 2D search planes, is needed to utilize this constraint. Our stereo matching algorithm uses edge-delimited intervals as elements to be matched, and employs the above mentioned two searches: one is inter-scanline search for possible correspondences of connected edges in right and left images and the other is intra-scanline search for correspondences of edge-delimited intervals on each scanline pair. Dynamic programming is used for both searches which proceed simultaneously in two levels: the former supplies the consistency constraints to the latter while the latter supplies the matching score to the former. An interval-based similarity metric is used to compute the score.
@conference{Ohta-1985-15635,
author = {Y. Ohta And Takeo Kanade},
title = {Stereo by Two-Level Dynamic Programming},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '85)},
year = {1985},
month = {August},
volume = {2},
pages = {1120 - 1126},
}
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