Analysis of Error in Depth Perception with Vergence and Spatially Varying Sensing

In stereo vision the depth of a 3-D point is estimated based on the position of its projections on the left and right images. The image plane of cameras that produces the images consists of discrete pixels. This discretization of images generates uncertainty in estimation of the depth at each 3-D point. In this paper, we investigate the effect of vergence and spatially varying resolution on the depth estimation error. First, vergence is studied when pairs of stereo images with uniform resolution are used. Then the problem is studied for a stereo system similar to that of humans, in which cameras have high resolution in the center and nonlinearly decreasing resolution toward the periphery. In this paper we are only concerned with error in depth perception, assuming that stereo matching is already done.

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