Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 394-400.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.02.05

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Semi-global matching method based on disparity range estimation and improved cost

Yan PENG1, Junbin GUO1,*, Chuanqiang YU1, Jingbo LI2   

  1. 1. Missile Engineering Institute, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi'an 710025, China
    2. Unit 96873 of the PLA, Baoji 721000, China
  • Received:2021-02-04 Online:2022-02-18 Published:2022-02-24
  • Contact: Junbin GUO

Abstract:

Traditional semi-global method usually sets a disparity range artificially for scenes with unknown disparity range, resulting in a waste of computing resources, and uses the traditional Census transform for cost computation, limiting the lack of parallax aceuracy. A semi-global matching method based on disparity range estimation and improved cost is proposed. First, a variety of feature operators are used to extract the feature points of the image pairs at the same time, and the fast nearest neighbor search method is used to match the feature points, the matching points are filtered by the constraints of stereo matching, and the disparity of the matching point pairs are computed to estimate the disparity range. Then, on this basis, the intensity, gradient and edge information of the image are processed by Census transform respectively to construct a new cost computation function. The experimental results demonstrate that, compared with the traditional method, the average error matching rate of the improved method is reduced by 6.37%, and the computation time is shortened by more than 95%.

Key words: stereo matching, semi-global matching, disparity range estimation, cost computation, Census transform

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