Improved stereo matching algorithm based on multi-scale fusion

Abstract

Aiming at the low matching accuracy of local stereo matching algorithm in weak texture or discontinuous disparity areas, a stereo matching algorithm combining multi-scale fusion of convolutional neural network (CNN) and feature pyramid structure (FPN) is proposed. The feature pyramid is applied on the basis of the convolutional neural network to realize the multi-scale feature extraction and fusion of the image, which improves the matching similarity of the image blocks. The guide graph filter is used to quickly and effectively complete the cost aggregation. The disparity selection stage adapts the improvement dynamic programming algorithm to obtain the initial disparity map. The initial disparity map is refined so as to obtain the final disparity map. The algorithm is trained and tested on the image provided by Middlebury data set, and the result shows that the disparity map obtained by the algorithm has good effect.