Deep stereo confidence prediction for depth estimation

Sunok Kim, Dongbo Min, Bumsub Ham, Seungryong Kim, Kwanghoon Sohn

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Abstract

We present a novel method that predicts a confidence to improve the accuracy of an estimated depth map in stereo matching. In contrast to existing learning based approaches relying on hand-crafted confidence features, we cast this problem into a convolutional neural network, learned using both a matching cost volume and its associated disparity map. As the size of the matching cost volume varies depending on a search range of stereo image pairs, we propose to use a top-K matching probability volume layer so that an input size for convolutional layers remains unchanged. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art confidence estimation approaches on various benchmarks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages992-996
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509021758
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2017
Event24th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017 - Beijing, China
Duration: 17 Sep 201720 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2017-September
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference24th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period17/09/1720/09/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Confidence prediction
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Depth refinement
  • Matching probability
  • Stereo matching

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