Stereo Matching Using Optic Flow

A method for the determination of pixel correspondence in stereo image pairs is presented. The optic flow vectors that result from the displacement of the point of projection are obtained and the correspondence between pixels of the various objects in the scene is derived from the optic flow vectors. The proposed algorithm is implemented and the correspondence vectors are obtained. Various specialized improvements of the method are implemented and thoroughly tested on sequences of image pairs giving rise to interesting conclusions. The algorithm is highly-parallelizable and therefore suitable for real-time applications.

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