Depth sensing is of paramount importance for countless applications and stereo represents a popular, effective and cheap solution for this purpose. As highlighted by recent works concerned with stereo, uncertainty estimation can be a powerful cue to improve accuracy in stereo. Most confidence measures rely on features, mainly extracted from the cost volume, fed to a random forest or a convolutional neural network trained to estimate match uncertainty. In contrast, we propose a novel strategy for confidence estimation based on features computed in the disparity domain, making our proposal suited for any stereo system including COTS devices, and in constant time. We exhaustively assess the performance of our proposals, referred to as O1 and O2, on KITTI and Middlebury datasets with three popular and different stereo algorithms (CENSUS, MC-CNN and SGM), as well as a deep stereo network (PSM-Net). We also evaluate how well confidence measures generalize to different environments/datasets.

Poggi, M., Tosi, F., Mattoccia, S. (2020). Learning a confidence measure in the disparity domain from O(1) features. COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING, 193(102905), 1-8 [10.1016/j.cviu.2020.102905].

Learning a confidence measure in the disparity domain from O(1) features

Poggi, Matteo;Tosi, Fabio;Mattoccia, Stefano
2020

Abstract

Depth sensing is of paramount importance for countless applications and stereo represents a popular, effective and cheap solution for this purpose. As highlighted by recent works concerned with stereo, uncertainty estimation can be a powerful cue to improve accuracy in stereo. Most confidence measures rely on features, mainly extracted from the cost volume, fed to a random forest or a convolutional neural network trained to estimate match uncertainty. In contrast, we propose a novel strategy for confidence estimation based on features computed in the disparity domain, making our proposal suited for any stereo system including COTS devices, and in constant time. We exhaustively assess the performance of our proposals, referred to as O1 and O2, on KITTI and Middlebury datasets with three popular and different stereo algorithms (CENSUS, MC-CNN and SGM), as well as a deep stereo network (PSM-Net). We also evaluate how well confidence measures generalize to different environments/datasets.
2020
Poggi, M., Tosi, F., Mattoccia, S. (2020). Learning a confidence measure in the disparity domain from O(1) features. COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING, 193(102905), 1-8 [10.1016/j.cviu.2020.102905].
Poggi, Matteo; Tosi, Fabio; Mattoccia, Stefano
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