Bayesian stereo matching

  • Authors:
  • Li Cheng;Terry Caelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta., Canada T6G 2E8 and National ICT Australia, Research School of Information Science and Engineering, Australian National Univ ...;National ICT Australia, Research School of Information Science and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A Bayesian framework is proposed for stereo vision where solutions to both the model parameters and the disparity map are posed in terms of predictions of latent variables, given the observed stereo images. A mixed sampling and deterministic strategy is adopted to balance between effectiveness and efficiency: the parameters are estimated via Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling techniques and the Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) disparity map is inferred by a deterministic approximation algorithm. Additionally, a new method is provided to evaluate the partition function of the associated Markov random field model. Encouraging results are obtained on a standard set of stereo images as well as on synthetic forest images.