Semi-global matching: A principled derivation in terms of message passing

Amnon Drory, Carsten Haubold, Shai Avidan, Fred A. Hamprecht

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Abstract

Semi-global matching, originally introduced in the context of dense stereo, is a very successful heuristic to minimize the energy of a pairwise multi-label Markov Random Field defined on a grid. We offer the first principled explanation of this empirically successful algorithm, and clarify its exact relation to belief propagation and tree-reweighted message passing. One outcome of this new connection is an uncertainty measure for the MAP label of a variable in a Markov Random Field.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition - 36th German Conference, GCPR 2014, Proceedings
EditorsJoachim Hornegger, Xiaoyi Jiang, Reinhard Koch
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages43-53
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9783319117515
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event36th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, GCPR 2014 - Münster, Germany
Duration: 2 Sep 20145 Sep 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8753

Conference

Conference36th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, GCPR 2014
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMünster
Period2/09/145/09/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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