Stereo matching using aggregated likelihood and multi-scale prior

This paper proposes a novel global stereo matching method using aggregated likelihoods and multi-scale priors. The likelihoods of dense stereo correspondences as data term can be robustly expressed by aggregated matching costs based on Weber feature descriptors in an asymmetrical linear filtering model. The multi-scale priors on disparity surface are designed to capture scene smooth term from larger neighborhood besides 4-connected neighborhood. The presented stereo approach being relatively simple does not rely on image segmentation and any scene semantic analysis. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed stereo matching algorithm can produce the dense smooth disparity results comparable to those of excellent stereo matching techniques.