Bayesian stereo: 3D vision designed for sensor fusion

John Larson; Robert B. Pless

doi:10.1117/12.571537

25 October 2004 Bayesian stereo: 3D vision designed for sensor fusion

John Larson, Robert B. Pless

Proceedings Volume 5608, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.571537
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

Classical stereo algorithms attempt to reconstruct 3D models of a scene by matching points between two images. Finding points that match is an important part of this process, and point matches are most commonly chosen as the minimum of an error function based on color or local texture. Here we motivate a probabilistic approach to this point matching problem, and provide an experimental design for the empirical measurement of the color matching error for corresponding points. We use this prior in a Bayesian scene reconstruction example, and show that we get better 3D reconstruction by not committing to a specific pixel match early in the visual processing. This allows a calibrated stereo camera to be considered as a probabilistic volume sensor -- which allows it to be more easily integrated with scene structure measurements from other kinds of sensors.

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John Larson and Robert B. Pless "Bayesian stereo: 3D vision designed for sensor fusion", Proc. SPIE 5608, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.571537

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