A Novel Disparity Estimation Method Based on Multi-Block and Adaptive Window

Abstract:

Disparity estimation is a basic analytic method for images and video and is highly used in fields like stereo image coding, video retrieval and stereo image segmentation. This paper proposes a new disparity estimation method. In this paper, the superiority of the multi-block matching is analyzed. The new method based on the idea of block matching constructs a multi-block matching algorithm, thereby improving matching accuracy especially in the disparity discontinuous regions. A adaptive window method based on edge detect is proposed to select the best window.The experimental results based on the Middlebury stereo datasets demonstrate that our method can achieve a better performance.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 571-572)
• Pages: 672-675
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.571-572.672
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Qiang Gao, Yun Peng Lu*, Hong Ye Yang
• Keywords: Difference, Disparity, Measurement, Stereo

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