Active binocular stereo

Passive binocular stereo tends to produce stereo correspondence errors and require much computation. A method which overcomes these drawbacks by moving the stereo camera actively is presented. The method utilizes a motion parallax acquired by a monocular motion stereo to restrict the search range of binocular disparity. Using only the uniqueness of disparity makes it possible to find reliable binocular disparity and occlusion very efficiently. Experimental results with complicated scenes are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of this method