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16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) - Volume 3
Multibaseline Stereo in the Presence of Specular Reflections
Quebec City, QC, Canada
August 11-August 15
ISBN: 0-7695-1695-X
Yuanzhen Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Stephen Lin, Microsoft Research, Asia
Hanqing Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sing Bing Kang, Microsoft Research
Heung-Yeung Shum, Microsoft Research, Asia
We address the problem of accurate depth estimation using multibaseline stereo in the presence of specular reflections. Specular reflections can cause the intensity and color of corresponding points to change dramatically according to different viewpoints, thus producing severe matching errors for various stereo algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new method to deal with this problem by treating specular reflections as occlusions. Our idea is to first detect specular pixels by computing the uncertainty of depth estimates. Then we combine the use of flexible windows and an adaptively selected subset of images to avoid these specular areas in all the multibaseline stereo images. Even though specularities may exist in the reference image, accurate depth is nevertheless estimated for all pixels. Experiments show that our consideration of specular reflections leads to improved stereo results.
Citation:
Yuanzhen Li, Stephen Lin, Hanqing Lu, Sing Bing Kang, Heung-Yeung Shum, "Multibaseline Stereo in the Presence of Specular Reflections," icpr, vol. 3, pp.30573, 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) - Volume 3, 2002
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