Stereo matching algorithm based on improved Census transform and texture filtering

Abstract To solve the problem that existing binocular stereo matching algorithms have low matching accuracy in discontinuous disparity and low texture area, a stereo matching algorithm based on Census transform and texture filtering is proposed. The weighted Census transform circular template is used to carry out the matching cost, which reflects the influence of the distance between neighborhood pixels and target pixels on the calculation and expands the perception range of target pixels; the texture filtering method is used for cost aggregation, which highlights the image structure information and smooths the internal texture. The experimental results show that the stereo matching algorithm proposed in this paper can effectively reduce the mismatching rate of images, the disparity map obtained has less noise, and the matching effect is better when the pattern texture is relatively dense.