Improvement of stereo disparity estimation through balanced filtering: The sliding-block approach

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 913-920

  Slima, Mohamed Ben ^a   Konrad, Janusz ^b   Barwicz, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disparity and motion estimation; Filtering; Interpolation; Stereoscopic and 3 D imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERPOLATION; MOTION CONTROL; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

STEREO IMAGES;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 0031339247     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/76.644071     Document Type: Article

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