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We propose a novel approach for fast and accurate stereo visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) independent of feature detection and matching. We extend monocular Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) to a stereo system by optimizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jiawei Mo , Md Jahidul Islam , Junaed Sattar

Although convolution neural network based stereo matching architectures have made impressive achievements, there are still some limitations: 1) Convolutional Feature (CF) tends to capture appearance information, which is inadequate for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Biyang Liu , Huimin Yu , Yangqi Long

Purpose: Stereo matching methods that enable depth estimation are crucial for visualization enhancement applications in computer-assisted surgery (CAS). Learning-based stereo matching methods are promising to predict accurate results on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Zixin Yang , Richard Simon , Cristian A. Linte

A major focus of recent developments in stereo vision has been on how to obtain accurate dense disparity maps in passive stereo vision. Active vision systems enable more accurate estimations of dense disparity compared to passive stereo.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Laurent Valentin Jospin , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid , Mohammed Bennamoun

Binocular stereo vision is an important branch of machine vision, which imitates the human eye and matches the left and right images captured by the camera based on epipolar constraints. The matched disparity map can be calculated according…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Yimin Peng , Yunlong Li , Zijing Fang

Depth estimation is one of the key technologies in some fields such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. However, the traditional method of using a single sensor is inevitably limited by the performance of the sensor. Therefore, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Guangyao Xu , Junfeng Fan , En Li , Xiaoyu Long , Rui Guo

We present a stereo-matching method for depth estimation from high-resolution images using visual hulls as priors, and a memory-efficient technique for the correlation computation. Our method uses object masks extracted from supplementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Markus Plack , Hannah Dröge , Leif Van Holland , Matthias B. Hullin

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

We present a method for extracting depth information from a rectified image pair. We train a convolutional neural network to predict how well two image patches match and use it to compute the stereo matching cost. The cost is refined by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Jure Žbontar , Yann LeCun

State-of-the-art supervised stereo matching methods have achieved remarkable performance on various benchmarks. However, their generalization to real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the scarcity of annotated real-world stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xianqi Wang , Hao Yang , Gangwei Xu , Junda Cheng , Min Lin , Yong Deng , Jinliang Zang , Yurui Chen , Xin Yang

The matching formulation makes it naturally hard for the stereo matching to handle ill-posed regions like occlusions and non-Lambertian surfaces. Fusing monocular priors has been proven helpful for ill-posed matching, but the biased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chengtang Yao , Lidong Yu , Zhidan Liu , Jiaxi Zeng , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

Stereo vision between images faces a range of challenges, including occlusions, motion, and camera distortions, across applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and face analysis. Due to parameter sensitivity, further complications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Antonin Clerc , Michael Quellmalz , Moritz Piening , Philipp Flotho , Gregor Kornhardt , Gabriele Steidl

The complementary characteristics of active and passive depth sensing techniques motivate the fusion of the Li-DAR sensor and stereo camera for improved depth perception. Instead of directly fusing estimated depths across LiDAR and stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Hou-Ning Hu , Chieh Hubert Lin , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu , Min Sun

Despite the remarkable progress facilitated by learning-based stereo-matching algorithms, disparity estimation in low-texture, occluded, and bordered regions still remains a bottleneck that limits the performance. To tackle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zihua Liu , Songyan Zhang , Zhicheng Wang , Masatoshi Okutomi

Stereo matching is a fundamental building block for many vision and robotics applications. An informative and concise cost volume representation is vital for stereo matching of high accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we present a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Gangwei Xu , Junda Cheng , Peng Guo , Xin Yang

Efficient real-time disparity estimation is critical for the application of stereo vision systems in various areas. Recently, stereo network based on coarse-to-fine method has largely relieved the memory constraints and speed limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 He Dai , Xuchong Zhang , Yongli Zhao , Hongbin Sun

In this work, we propose a novel event based stereo method which addresses the problem of motion blur for a moving event camera. Our method uses the velocity of the camera and a range of disparities to synchronize the positions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Alex Zihao Zhu , Yibo Chen , Kostas Daniilidis

We present an approach to depth estimation that fuses information from a stereo pair with sparse range measurements derived from a LIDAR sensor or a range camera. The goal of this work is to exploit the complementary strengths of the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Shreyas S. Shivakumar , Kartik Mohta , Bernd Pfrommer , Vijay Kumar , Camillo J. Taylor

Depth estimation under adverse conditions remains a significant challenge. Recently, multi-spectral depth estimation, which integrates both visible light and thermal images, has shown promise in addressing this issue. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Zihan Qin , Jialei Xu , Wenbo Zhao , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

With the advent of aerial image datasets, dense stereo matching has gained tremendous progress. This work analyses dense stereo correspondence analysis on aerial images using different techniques. Traditional methods, optimization based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ishan Narayan , Shashi Poddar