A stereo confidence metric using single view imagery with comparison to five alternative approaches

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 12 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 943-957

  Egnal, Geoffrey ^a,c   Mintz, Max ^a   Wildes, Richard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence metrics; Empirical evaluations; Stereo matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STEREO VISION; SURFACES;

CONFIDENCE METRICES; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; SINGLE VIEW STEREO (SVS); STEREO MATCHING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 4344616129     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2004.03.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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