Dense disparity estimation with a divide-and-conquer disparity space image technique

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-29

  Tsai, Chun Jen ^b   Katsaggelos, Aggelos K ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth map; Disparity estimation; Disparity space image; Divide and conquer stereo matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005289075     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/6046.748168     Document Type: Article

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