08.B-Spline Modeling of Road Surfaces for Freespace Estimation
96.A space-sweep approach to true multi-image matching.
98.Detection of Small Obstacles at Long Range Using Multibaseline Stereo
07.
It is based on
the plane sweep idea,
He applied an edge filter on the
input images and provided a geometric reconstruction of
the scene. For every disparity value d the pixel (u;v) in
the left image is compared with the pixel (u+d;v) in the
right image. This corresponds to shifting the right image
over the left image,
Clearly, only obstacles with
the correct disparity value are in focus and the gray values
in the right and left images coincide. All other regions of the
A global optimiazion
algorithm for real-time on-board stereo obstacle detection systems
The goal of free space calculation is to find the disparity value d of the obstacles which bound the free space. This disparity value may be different for every image column. For the image row, where the foot point of an obstacle touches the ground, this disparity becomes the same as the disparity value of the road surface.
The goal is to find the boundary v(d) respectively disparity
d for every image column u which describes the free space
as consistently as possible.
The best boundary is given
by a maximal matching score. The key idea is to sum up a
matching score for the road surface from the image bottom
to the boundary and to sum up the matching score for objects
with disparity d from the boundary in the image on upwards.
The total score for row u and disparity d therefore writes as: