Title :
Stereo correspondence using Hopfield network with multiple constraints
Author :
Huang, Chia-horng ; Wang, Tung-hua
Author_Institution :
Nat. Taiwan Ocean Univ., Keelung, Taiwan
Abstract :
The paper proposes an algorithm to solve the difficult problem of stereo correspondence in stereo vision. This problem can be considered as an optimization process or a constraint satisfaction process. It is found that in the course of the constraint satisfaction process, the more constraints the cost function specifies, the more accurate the result will be. The authors propose a similarity constraint coupled with the uniqueness, smoothing, ordering constraints to formulate the energy function of a Hopfield network to perform the optimum task. Simulation results have verified the effectiveness of our approach
Keywords :
Hopfield neural nets; constraint theory; optimisation; stereo image processing; Hopfield network; constraint satisfaction process; cost function; energy function; multiple constraints; optimization process; optimum task; ordering constraints; similarity constraint; stereo correspondence; stereo vision; Constraint optimization; Cost function; Humans; Image matching; Neurons; Personal communication networks; Pixel; Retina; Smoothing methods; Stereo vision;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2000 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nashville, TN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6583-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2000.886071