A correlation-based approach for real-time stereo matching

  • Authors:
  • Raj Kumar Gupta;Siu-Yeung Cho

  • Affiliations:
  • Forensics and Security Laboratory, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;Forensics and Security Laboratory, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • ISVC'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a new area-based stereo matching algorithm that computes dense disparity maps for a real time vision system. While many stereo matching algorithms have been proposed in recent years, correlation-based algorithms still have an edge due to speed and less memory requirements. The selection of appropriate shape and size of the matching window is a difficult problem for correlation-based algorithms. We use two correlation windows (one large and one small size) to improve the performance of the algorithm while maintaining its real-time suitability. Unlike other area-based stereo matching algorithms, our method works very well at disparity boundaries as well as in low textured image areas and computes a sharp disparity map. Evaluation on the benchmark Middlebury stereo dataset has been done to demonstrate the qualitative and quantitative performance of our algorithm.