VLSI array processors
Structural Stereopsis for 3-D Vision
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Active Tracking Strategy for Monocular Depth Inference over Multiple Frames
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
High-speed range estimation based on intensity gradient analysis
High-speed range estimation based on intensity gradient analysis
A novel stereo matching method for wide disparity range detection
ICIAR'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
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Depth recovery from gray-scale images is an important topic in the field of computer and robot vision. Intensity gradient analysis (IGA) is a robust technique for inferring depth information from a sequence of images acquired by a sensor undergoing translational motion. IGA obviates the need for explicitly solving the correspondence problem and hence is an efficient technique for range estimation. Many applications require real time processing at very high frame rates. The design of special purpose hardware could significantly speed up the computations in IGA. In this paper, we propose two VLSI architectures for high-speed range estimation based on IGA. The architectures fully utilize the principles of pipelining and parallelism in order to obtain high speed and throughput. The designs are conceptually simple and suitable for implementation in VLSI.