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Symmetric Bi- and Trinocular Stereo: Tradeoffs between Theoretical Foundations and Heuristics

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Symmetric Bi- and Trinocular Stereo: Tradeoffs between Theoretical Foundations and Heuristics. Tradeoffs between theoretical and heuristic sides of ill-posed problems of the intensity-based computational stereo are discussed, as applied to the previously proposed symmetric approach for solving this problem. The heuristics are needed to deal with discontinuities in stereo images due to partial occlusions of observed surface. Basically, it is these discontinuities that cause the ill-posedness of the stereo problems. Theoretical base of the symmetric stereo is refined here by introducing a novel probabilistic model of the surface geometry and by deducing compound Bayesian decision rules to be implemented by dynamic programming techniques, as in the case of simple MAP-decision with the maximum a posteriori probability. Also, several heuristics are proposed to regularize the binocular stereo.

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Gimel’farb, G.L. (1996). Symmetric Bi- and Trinocular Stereo: Tradeoffs between Theoretical Foundations and Heuristics. In: Kropatsch, W., Klette, R., Solina, F., Albrecht, R. (eds) Theoretical Foundations of Computer Vision. Computing Supplement, vol 11. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6586-7_4

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