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Disparity/depth estimation from sequences of stereo images is an important element in 3D vision. Owing to occlusions, imperfect settings and homogeneous luminance, accurate estimate of depth remains a challenging problem. Targetting view…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Majid Geravand , David Braendler , David R. Bull

Estimating depth from RGB images is a long-standing ill-posed problem, which has been explored for decades by the computer vision, graphics, and machine learning communities. Among the existing techniques, stereo matching remains one of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hamid Laga , Laurent Valentin Jospin , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

Stereo matching is one of the most popular techniques to estimate dense depth maps by finding the disparity between matching pixels on two, synchronized and rectified images. Alongside with the development of more accurate algorithms, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Matteo Poggi , Seungryong Kim , Fabio Tosi , Sunok Kim , Filippo Aleotti , Dongbo Min , Kwanghoon Sohn , Stefano Mattoccia

We propose a state-of-the-art method for super-resolution with non-uniform blur. Single-image super-resolution methods seek to restore a high-resolution image from blurred, subsampled, and noisy measurements. Despite their impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Matias Tassano

Traditional stereo algorithms have focused their efforts on reconstruction quality and have largely avoided prioritizing for run time performance. Robots, on the other hand, require quick maneuverability and effective computation to observe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Sudeep Pillai , Srikumar Ramalingam , John J. Leonard

The conventional methods for estimating camera poses and scene structures from severely blurry or low resolution images often result in failure. The off-the-shelf deblurring or super-resolution methods may show visually pleasing results.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Haesol Park , Kyoung Mu Lee

We present a fast and accurate method for dense depth reconstruction from sparsely sampled light fields obtained using a synchronized camera array. In our method, the source images are over-segmented into non-overlapping compact superpixels…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Aleksandra Chuchvara , Attila Barsi , Atanas Gotchev

Many applications of stereo depth estimation in robotics require the generation of accurate disparity maps in real time under significant computational constraints. Current state-of-the-art algorithms force a choice between either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Yan Wang , Zihang Lai , Gao Huang , Brian H. Wang , Laurens van der Maaten , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Stereo superpixel segmentation aims at grouping the discretizing pixels into perceptual regions through left and right views more collaboratively and efficiently. Existing superpixel segmentation algorithms mostly utilize color and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hua Li , Junyan Liang , Ruiqi Wu , Runmin Cong , Junhui Wu , Sam Tak Wu Kwong

Dense, robust and real-time computation of depth information from stereo-camera systems is a computationally demanding requirement for robotics, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. Semi-Global Matching (SGM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Daniel Hernandez-Juarez , Alejandro Chacón , Antonio Espinosa , David Vázquez , Juan Carlos Moure , Antonio Manuel López

Deep learning (DL) methods are widely investigated for stereo image matching tasks due to their reported high accuracies. However, their transferability/generalization capabilities are limited by the instances seen in the training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hessah Albanwan , Rongjun Qin

We present a passive stereo depth system that produces dense and accurate point clouds optimized for human environments, including dark, textureless, thin, reflective and specular surfaces and objects, at 2560x2048 resolution, with 384…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Krishna Shankar , Mark Tjersland , Jeremy Ma , Kevin Stone , Max Bajracharya

Stereo matching provides depth estimation from binocular images for downstream applications. These applications mostly take video streams as input and require temporally consistent depth maps. However, existing methods mainly focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jiaxi Zeng , Chengtang Yao , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Following the earlier verification for Gaussian model in \cite{ASaa2026}, this paper introduces a zero training forward computational framework for the model to realize it in real time applications. The framework is based on discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Akbar Saadat

In this paper, we present a decomposition model for stereo matching to solve the problem of excessive growth in computational cost (time and memory cost) as the resolution increases. In order to reduce the huge cost of stereo matching at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chengtang Yao , Yunde Jia , Huijun Di , Pengxiang Li , Yuwei Wu

Photometric stereo recovers the surface normals of an object from multiple images with varying shading cues, i.e., modeling the relationship between surface orientation and intensity at each pixel. Photometric stereo prevails in superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yakun Ju , Kin-Man Lam , Wuyuan Xie , Huiyu Zhou , Junyu Dong , Boxin Shi

In this paper, we propose a hybrid depth imaging system in which a polarisation camera is augmented by a second image from a standard digital camera. For this modest increase in equipment complexity over conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Dizhong Zhu , William A. P. Smith

Complex blur such as the mixup of space-variant and space-invariant blur, which is hard to model mathematically, widely exists in real images. In this paper, we propose a novel image deblurring method that does not need to estimate blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Chunzhi Gu , Xuequan Lu , Ying He , Chao Zhang

Defocus Blur Detection(DBD) aims to separate in-focus and out-of-focus regions from a single image pixel-wisely. This task has been paid much attention since bokeh effects are widely used in digital cameras and smartphone photography.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun

Event cameras offer a promising avenue for multi-view stereo depth estimation and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) due to their ability to detect blur-free 3D edges at high-speed and over broad illumination conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Diego Hitzges , Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego