Full-Image Guided Filtering for Fast Stereo Matching

A novel full-image guided filtering method is proposed. Different with many existing neighborhood filters, all input elements are employed during the proposed filtering approach. In addition, a novel scheme called weight propagation is proposed to compute support weights. It fulfills the requirements of edge preserving and low complexity. It is applied to the cost-volume filtering in the local stereo matching framework. The algorithm utilizing the proposed filtering method is currently one of the best local algorithms on the Middlebury stereo testbed in terms of both speed and accuracy.

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