Color to gray conversions in the context of stereo matching algorithms: An analysis and comparison of current methods and an ad-hoc theoretically-motivated technique for image matching

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 327-348

  Benedetti, Luca ^a   Corsini, Massimiliano ^a   Cignoni, Paolo ^a   Callieri, Marco ^a   Scopigno, Roberto ^a  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Color to grayscale conversion; Dense stereo matching; Dimensionality reduction; Unsharp masking

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; GRAY SCALE; STEREO MATCHING; UNSHARP MASKING;

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COLOR MATCHING; STEREO VISION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 84861643249     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-010-0304-x     Document Type: Article

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