Stereo matching by adaptive weighting selection based cost aggregation

Cost aggregation is the most essential step for dense stereo correspondence searching, which measures the similarity between pixels in the stereo images. In this paper, based on the analysis of the optimal adaptive weight, we propose a novel support aggregation strategy by adaptive weighting selection. The proposed method calculates the aggregation cost by the joint optimization of both left and right matching cost. By assigning more reasonable weighting coefficients, we exclude the occlusion pixels while preserving sufficient support region for accurate matching. The proposed optimal strategy can be integrated by any other adaptive weighting based cost aggregation method to generate more reasonable similarity measurement. Experimental results show that, compare with traditional methods, our algorithm can reduce the foreground fatten phenomenon while increasing the accuracy in the high texture regions.