Spatio-Temporarily Consistent Video Disparity Estimation Algorithm
The proposed method shows superior speed, accuracy, and consistency compared to state-of-the-art algorithms. We have shown the method to be resilient even in large amounts of noise.Furthermore, we have illustrated that in general our method can be used to refine the results of any disparity estimation technique suffering from impulsive noise or estimation errors.
Our method can be used as a post-processing step to refine noisy estimates or to extend to videos.
We present a novel stereo video disparity estimation method. The proposed method is a two-stage algorithm. During the first stage, initial disparity maps are computed in a frame by-frame basis. In the second stage, the initial estimates are treated as a space-time volume.By setting up an l1-normed minimization problem with a novel three-dimensional total variation regularization, spatial smoothness and temporal consistency are handled simultaneously.
Inventor: NGUYEN, Truong | CHAN, Ho | KHOSHABEH, Ramsin
Priority Number: WO2013173282A1
IPC Current: H04N001300 | H04N001500
Assignee Applicant: The Regents of the University of California
Title: VIDEO DISPARITY ESTIMATE SPACE-TIME REFINEMENT METHOD AND CODEC | PROCÉDÉ D'AFFINAGE SPATIO-TEMPOREL D'ESTIMATION DE DISPARITÉ VIDÉO ET CODEC
Usefulness: VIDEO DISPARITY ESTIMATE SPACE-TIME REFINEMENT METHOD AND CODEC | PROCÉDÉ D'AFFINAGE SPATIO-TEMPOREL D'ESTIMATION DE DISPARITÉ VIDÉO ET CODEC
Summary: Method for disparity estimation of stereo video data by a video codec (claimed) for three-dimensional video processing.
Novelty: Method for disparity estimation of stereo video data by video codec, involves grouping initial disparity estimates into space-time volume, and reducing error in disparity in space-time volume to refine initial disparity estimates
ICT/Telecom
Image Processing
9659372
Tech ID/UC Case 23982/2011-137-0 Related Cases 2011-137-0
USA
