Extraction of Object Representations from Stereo Image Sequences Utilizing Statistical and Deterministic Regularities in Visual Data

An explicit and compact coding of geometric and structural image information applied to stereo processing

“…The aim of this paper was to define and investigate a local multi-modal similarity function. A combination of a local matching with more global ordering or smoothness constraints (as for example in Koch, 1994;Pajares and de la Cruz, 2002) or the utilisation of multiple time frames (see, e.g., Schmid and Zisserman, 1997;Kr€ uger et al, 2002b) can be used to further improve performance.…”

“…We show that local methods can be improved by multi-modal matching and we derive statements about the relative importance of these visual sub-modalities. This similarity function is used in a artificial visual system that also makes use of global structural constraints such as Rigid Body Motion (see, e.g., Kr€ uger et al, 2002b).…”