Alternatives to hierarchical techniques in stereo correlation

F. Raye Norvelle

doi:10.1117/12.155802

24 September 1993 Alternatives to hierarchical techniques in stereo correlation

F. Raye Norvelle

Proceedings Volume 1944, Integrating Photogrammetric Techniques with Scene Analysis and Machine Vision; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.155802
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

When digital stereo correlation methods are used to generate elevation data from stereo images of the terrain, the likelihood that the correlation process will be successful throughout the whole of the stereo model can be enhanced significantly by using hierarchical, multi-scale, pyramidal, coarse-to-fine, etc., techniques. One main advantage of these techniques is that the correlation data obtained at a lower resolution in the hierarchical procedure is used to guide and control the correlation process at the next higher resolution and, consequently, the user can be reasonably assured that the correlation process will not get 'lost'. Unfortunately, constraints imposed by results obtained at the lower resolution can also lead to generation of erroneous elevation data in some circumstances. For example, if the terrain is spotted with individual trees, buildings or other structures, the correlation process, when performed on the low resolution images, will include approximations to the heights of these features in the resulting elevation data. These are erroneous elevations compared to the 'bald earth' and their influence will be carried from one step to the next in the hierarchical procedure. The result will be a 'noisy' digital elevation model (DEM) containing approximations to the elevations of trees and structures on the terrain and not just the terrain itself.

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F. Raye Norvelle "Alternatives to hierarchical techniques in stereo correlation", Proc. SPIE 1944, Integrating Photogrammetric Techniques with Scene Analysis and Machine Vision, (24 September 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.155802

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