Iterative semi-global matching for robust driver assistance systems

  • Authors:
  • Simon Hermann;Reinhard Klette

  • Affiliations:
  • The .enpeda.. Project, Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand;The .enpeda.. Project, Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • ACCV'12 Proceedings of the 11th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Semi-global matching (SGM) is a technique of choice for dense stereo estimation in current industrial driver-assistance systems due to its real-time processing capability and its convincing performance. In this paper we introduce iSGM as a new cost integration concept for semi-global matching. In iSGM, accumulated costs are iteratively evaluated and intermediate disparity results serve as input to generate semi-global distance maps. This novel data structure supports fast analysis of spatial disparity information and allows for reliable search space reduction in consecutive cost accumulation. As a consequence horizontal costs are stabilized which improves the robustness of the matching result. We demonstrate the superiority of this iterative integration concept against a standard configuration of semi-global matching and compare our results to current state-of-the-art methods on the KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite.