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New Global Formulation for a Bilateral based Stereo Matching Algorithm

by Doaa A. Altantawy, Marwa Obbaya, Sherif S. Kishk
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 98 - Number 8
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Doaa A. Altantawy, Marwa Obbaya, Sherif S. Kishk
10.5120/17205-7419

Doaa A. Altantawy, Marwa Obbaya, Sherif S. Kishk . New Global Formulation for a Bilateral based Stereo Matching Algorithm. International Journal of Computer Applications. 98, 8 ( July 2014), 21-28. DOI=10.5120/17205-7419

@article{ 10.5120/17205-7419,
author = { Doaa A. Altantawy, Marwa Obbaya, Sherif S. Kishk },
title = { New Global Formulation for a Bilateral based Stereo Matching Algorithm },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { July 2014 },
volume = { 98 },
number = { 8 },
month = { July },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 21-28 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume98/number8/17205-7419/ },
doi = { 10.5120/17205-7419 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Marwa Obbaya
%A Sherif S. Kishk
%T New Global Formulation for a Bilateral based Stereo Matching Algorithm
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 98
%N 8
%P 21-28
%D 2014
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

In this paper, a new hybrid local-global stereo matching algorithm (BFGc) is proposed. BFGc makes the maximum benefit from both the introduced local and the global approaches representing the main two stage of the algorithm. Globally, a new energy formulation of the stereo problem in segment domain is proposed which basically depends on the reliability of the disparity estimates results from the adopted local approach, unlike what is typical in global methods. For increasing reliability of the local approach, a new gradient masks is supporting the adopted similarity measure and Bilateral filter, with its edge preserving sense, is adopted for more proper disparity assignment. In segment domain, a plan fitting technique is introduced which aims at inferring all valid planes in disparity space and producing a good initialization for the global optimization space which aims at assigning memberships to the these planes to all pixels in the reference image. The experimental results on the Middleburry dataset demonstrate that our approach stands as a strong candidate with the modern stereo matching algorithms.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Stereo matching Self-adapting similarity measure Color segmentation Graph cuts