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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2007.23.2.113

Automatic Determination of Matching Window Size Using Histogram of Gradient  

Ye, Chul-Soo (School of Computer Science, Information and Standard, Far East University)
Moon, Chang-Gi (School of Computer Science, Information and Standard, Far East University)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.23, no.2, 2007 , pp. 113-117 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a new method for determining automatically the size of the matching window using histogram of the gradient in order to improve the performance of stereo matching using one-meter resolution satellite imagery. For each pixel, we generate Flatness Index Image by calculating the mean value of the vertical or horizontal intensity gradients of the 4-neighbors of every pixel in the entire image. The edge pixel has high flatness index value, while the non-edge pixel has low flatness index value. By using the histogram of the Flatness Index Image, we find a flatness threshold value to determine whether a pixel is edge pixel or non-edge pixel. If a pixel has higher flatness index value than the flatness threshold value, we classify the pixel into edge pixel, otherwise we classify the pixel into non-edge pixel. If the ratio of the number of non-edge pixels in initial matching window is low, then we consider the pixel to be in homogeneous region and enlarge the size of the matching window We repeat this process until the size of matching window reaches to a maximum size. In the experiment, we used IKONOS satellite stereo imagery and obtained more improved matching results than the matching method using fixed matching window size.
Keywords
IKONOS satellite imagery; stereo matching; histogram analysis; gradient calculation;
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