Spatio-temporal interactions that promote the smoothness constraint for binocular matches

Clifton M. Schor; Zhi-Lei Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.602941

18 March 2005 Spatio-temporal interactions that promote the smoothness constraint for binocular matches

Clifton M. Schor, Zhi-Lei Zhang

Proceedings Volume 5666, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602941
Event: Electronic Imaging 2005, 2005, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Early in his career, Bela Julesz introduced the stereo matching problem while working at Bell Labs on an encryption project. The common belief at that time was based on Wheatstone’s proposal that 2-D space perception of form preceded coding of disparity for 3-D space perception. However, with the random-dot stereogram, Julesz demonstrated that stereoscopic depth could be perceived in the absence of any identifiable objects or perspective cues available to either eye alone. This work inspired many algorithms for binocular matching including the smoothness constraint. Wheatstone’s and Julesz’s proposals as to whether binocular matches are solved at a low level, prior to form perception, or after form is perceived are still debated. We have examined spatio-temporal interactions that promote binocular matches and yield percepts of smooth surfaces in depth. We identified low-level processes for estimating depth differences between surface patches that require their proximity in both time and space, and a high level process that minimizes their depth differences when surface texture of adjacent patches appears to belong to the same surface. This suggests that the stereo-matching solution is influenced by a priori assumptions about the surface configuration of the scene and by monocular and binocular spatial cues.

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Clifton M. Schor and Zhi-Lei Zhang "Spatio-temporal interactions that promote the smoothness constraint for binocular matches", Proc. SPIE 5666, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X, (18 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602941

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