We have measured the performance of several area-based stereo matching algorithms with noise added to synthetic images. Dense disparity maps were computed and compared with the ground truth using three metrics: the fraction of correctly computed disparities, the mean and the standard deviation of the disparity error distribution. For a noise-free image, S. Birchfield and C. Tomasi's pixel-to-pixel dynamic algorithm performed slightly better than a simple sum-of-absolute-differences algorithm (67% correct matches vs 65%) $considered to be within experimental error. A census algorithm performed worst at only 54%. The dynamic algorithm performed well until the S/N ratio reached 36 dB after which its performance started to drop. However, with correctly chosen parameters, it was superior to correlation and census algorithms until the images became very noisy (/spl sim/15 dB). The dynamic algorithm also ran faster than the fastest correlation algorithms using an optimum window radius of 4, and more than 10 times faster than the census algorithm.


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    Title :

    Robustness to noise of stereo matching


    Contributors:
    Leclercq, P. (author) / Morris, J. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    381104 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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