Genetic feature selection for highly accurate stereo reconstruction of natural surfaces

Gerhard Paar; Oliver Sidla; Wolfgang Poelzleitner

doi:10.1117/12.325791

6 October 1998 Genetic feature selection for highly accurate stereo reconstruction of natural surfaces

Gerhard Paar, Oliver Sidla, Wolfgang Poelzleitner

Proceedings Volume 3522, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.325791
Event: Photonics East (ISAM, VVDC, IEMB), 1998, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

One approach to stereo matching is to use different local features to find correspondences. The selection of an optimum feature set is the content of this paper. An operational software tool based on the principle of comparing feature vectors is used for stereo matching. A relatively large set of different local features is sought for optimum combinations of 6 - 10 of them. This is done by a genetic process that uses an intrinsic quality criterion that evaluates the correctness of each individual match. The convergence of the genetic feature selection process is demonstrated on a real stereo pair of a tunnel surface. Four areas were used for individual optimization. After several hundred generations for each of the areas, it is shown that the identified feature sets result in a considerably better stereo matching result than the currently used features, which were the result of an initial manual choice. The experiments described in this paper use a `super-set' of 145 features for every pixel, which are created by filtering the image with convolution kernels (averaging, Gaussian filters, bandpass, highpass), median filters and Gabor kernels. From these 145 filters, the genetic feature selection process selects an optimal set of operators. Using the selected filters results in a 15% improvement of the matching accuracy and robustness.

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Gerhard Paar, Oliver Sidla, and Wolfgang Poelzleitner "Genetic feature selection for highly accurate stereo reconstruction of natural surfaces", Proc. SPIE 3522, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, (6 October 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.325791

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