Abstract-Binocular stereo matching is one of the most important algorithms in the field of computer vision. Adaptive support-weight approaches, the current state-of-the-art local methods, produce results comparable to those generated by global methods. However, excessive time consumption is the main problem of these algorithms since the computational complexity is proportionally related to the support window size. In this paper, we present a novel cost aggregation method inspired by domain transformation, a recently proposed dimensionality reduction technique. This transformation enables the aggregation of 2-D cost data to be performed using a sequence of 1-D filters, which lowers computation and memory costs compared to conventional 2-D filters. Experiments show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art local methods in terms of computational performance, since its computational complexity is independent of the input parameters. Furthermore, according to the experimental results with the Middlebury dataset and realworld images, our algorithm is currently one of the most accurate and efficient local algorithms.
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