Robust local stereo matching under varying radiometric conditions

The authors present a local stereo matching algorithm whose performance is insensitive to changes in radiometric conditions between the input images. First, a prior on the disparities is built by combining the DAISY descriptor and Census filtering. Then, a Census-based cost aggregation with a self-adaptive window is performed. Finally, the maximum a-posteriori estimation is carried out to compute the disparity. The authors´ algorithm is compared with both local and global stereo matching algorithms (NLCA, ELAS, ANCC, AdaptWeight and CSBP) by using Middlebury datasets. The results show that the proposed algorithm achieves high-accuracy dense disparity estimations and is more robust to radiometric differences between input images than other algorithms.