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Anchor-diagonal-based shape adaptive local support region for efficient stereo matching

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Local stereo algorithms are preferred for real-time applications due to their computational efficiency. Deciding the size of the required local support region is a challenging task. It fails to estimate accurate disparity for small support region and introduces fattening effect for big support region. Hence, a shape adaptive local support region is necessary to achieve accurate disparity. This paper proposes an anchor-diagonal-based shape adaptive support region construction for stereo matching. The proposed algorithm dynamically constructs local support region, and the aggregated matching cost is used for Normalized Cross-Correlation-based similarity measure. The algorithm is evaluated using benchmarked Middlebury stereo evaluation, and the obtained disparities are efficient as compared to state-of-the-art methods.

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This research is carried out under the scheme Structural PhD of Manipal University. Authors would like to thank Martin Humenberger from Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria, for providing real-time stereo images.

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  1. Department of Computer Applications, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University, Manipal, 576104, India

    U. Raghavendra & A. K. Karunakar

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University, Manipal, 576104, India

    Krishnamoorthi Makkithaya

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Raghavendra, U., Makkithaya, K. & Karunakar, A.K. Anchor-diagonal-based shape adaptive local support region for efficient stereo matching. SIViP 9, 893–901 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-013-0524-4

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