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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2017.54.2.099

Temporal Stereo Matching Using Occlusion Handling  

Baek, Eu-Tteum (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Ho, Yo-Sung (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.54, no.2, 2017 , pp. 99-105 More about this Journal
Abstract
Generally, stereo matching methods are used to estimate depth information based on color and spatial similarity. However, most depth estimation methods suffer from the occlusion region because occlusion regions cause inaccurate depth information. Moreover, they do not consider the temporal dimension when estimating the disparity. In this paper, we propose a temporal stereo matching method, considering occlusion and disregarding inaccurate temporal depth information. First, we apply a global stereo matching algorithm to estimate the depth information, we segment the image to occlusion and non-occlusion regions. After occlusion detection, we fill the occluded region with a reasonable disparity value that are obtained from neighboring pixels of the current pixel. Then, we apply a temporal disparity estimation method using the reliable information. Experimental results show that our method detects more accurate occlusion regions, compared to a conventional method. The proposed method increases the temporal consistency of estimated disparity maps and outperforms per-frame methods in noisy images.
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EM; GMM;
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