HIERARCHICAL BLOCK-BASED DISPARITY ESTIMATION USING MEAN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE AND DYNAMIC PR.pdfVIP

HIERARCHICAL BLOCK-BASED DISPARITY ESTIMATION USING MEAN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE AND DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING Liang Zhang Communications Research Centre Canada 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8S2, Canada email: liang.zhang@crc.ca, Fax: (613) 990-6488, Tel: (613) 991-6995 ABSTRACT A disparity field is required in many video processing and computer vision applications. Many current approaches to disparity estimation tend to fail in low textured areas unless an additional interpolation step is added. To overcome this problem, an approach based on the hierarchical block-matching technique is pro