Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 56, Issue 15, 151501(2019)

Non-Local Stereo Matching Algorithm Based on Edge Constraint Iteration

Ying Luo1, Guanying Huo1,2、*, Jinxin Xu1, and Qingwu Li1,2
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  • 1 College of Internet of Things Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213022, China
  • 2 Changzhou Key Laboratory of Sensor Networks and Environmental Sensing, Changzhou, Jiangsu 213022, China
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    To address the problem of stereo matching algorithms having low matching accuracy in non-occluded regions, especially in the weak-textured regions, a non-local stereo matching algorithm based on edge constraint iteration was proposed. Firstly, the proposed method combined the color and gradient information to construct a matching cost computation function. Secondly, the minimum spanning tree structures of left and right images were constructed, and the cost volumes were aggregated according to the smoothness information of the image. Subsequently, a disparity map obtained by the winner-takes-all strategy was used for edge detection. The image edges were then used as constraints to re-aggregate the cost volumes and optimize the results. Finally, dense disparity maps were obtained by the disparity refinement process. The experimental results demonstrate that, for 31 pairs of images from the Middlebury test platform, the average mismatching rate in non-occluded regions of the proposed algorithm is 8.35%. Compared with five existing methods, the proposed algorithm can effectively improve matching accuracy in non-occluded regions.

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    Ying Luo, Guanying Huo, Jinxin Xu, Qingwu Li. Non-Local Stereo Matching Algorithm Based on Edge Constraint Iteration[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2019, 56(15): 151501

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Jan. 18, 2019

    Accepted: Feb. 27, 2019

    Published Online: Aug. 5, 2019

    The Author Email: Huo Guanying (huoguanying@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP56.151501

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