Stereo Matching Using Color Segmentation of Each Scanline
Masami IWATSUKI, Daiji KITAGAWA, Yusuke Kawano · Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers · 2000
This paper proposes a new robust method of stereo matching using coarse to fine hierarchical color segmentation of each scanline in stereo images. The proposed method can unambiguously decide disparity even though repetitive patterns exist in the images, because the longest sequences with same color pattern in both scanlines are simply regarded as matching regions. Furthermore, our matching algorithm does not need the nonreversal constraint in correspondence. Therefore, this method is effective for the scene including narrow occlusion.