A statistical approach to sparse multi-scale phase-based stereo

Ilkay Ulusoy, Edwin R. Hancock

Abstract: In this study, a multi-scale phase based sparse disparity algorithm and a probabilistic model for matching uncertain phase are proposed. The features used are oriented edges extracted using steerable filters. Feature correspondences are estimated using phase-similarity at multiple scale using a magnitude weighting scheme. In order to achieve sub-pixel accuracy in disparity, we use a fine tuning procedure which employs the phase difference between corresponding feature points. We also derive a probabilistic model, where phase uncertainty is trained using data from a single image pair. The model is used to provide stable matches. The disparity algorithm and the probabilistic phase uncertainty model are verified on various stereo image pairs.