Robust color correction in stereo vision

The phenomenon of color discrepancy between image pairs happens frequently in stereo vision systems. This inconsistence in color domain may cause difficulties when identifying point correspondence to reconstruct the scene depth. In this paper, we propose a robust algorithm to correct the color discrepancy between images. The proposed algorithm neither requires a color calibration chart/object which is a tedious procedure, nor explicitly compensates for the image as a whole, which possibly give bad correction results in local areas of an image. Instead, we correct the image region by region. Experiments show that the presented color correction algorithm is effective and efficient.