A novel method of stereo matching based on hierarchical belief-propagation[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2011, 16(1): 103-109. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20110105.
Aiming at the problem of low efficiency and mismatching caused by occlusion in global stereo matching
this paper proposes a novel method of stereo matching with high efficiency
which is based on hierarchical belief-propagation. First
this method obtains initial matching cost from local stereo matching
and occlusion and mismatched pixels are checked out by initial disparity. Then
the result of plane estimation is used to correct the initial cost
thus pixels in occlusion region can be refined. At last
in order to reduce the mismatching in low texture region and enhance the smoothness
an improved hierarchical belief-propagation is used to estimate the minimal global energy. Experimental results demonstrate the outstanding performance of the proposed method in accuracy and matching speed.