The Stability Principle in Stereo Matching

Matching M (full circles) is stable if each match p from M has no other competitors q besides those that have a competitor r from M. Match q is a competitor to a match p if they cannot be both members of M (due to uniqueness or ordering constraints, for instance) and the correlation of q is greater than that of p. Obviously, the q would be a better match candidate than p on account of its correlation value alone.

Stable monotonic matching is stable and preserves ordering.

Confidently stable matching uses confidence intervals instead of single-valued correlation values.

For exact definition and properties see the paper.


Radim Sara
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