A Stereo Machine for Video-rate Dense Depth Mapping and Its New Applications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A Stereo Machine for Video-rate Dense Depth Mapping and Its New Applications

Takeo Kanade, A. Yoshida, K. Oda, H. Kano, and M. Tanaka
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 196 - 202, June, 1996

Abstract

We have developed a video-rate stereo machine that has the capability of generating a dense depth map at the video rate. The performance bench marks of the CMU video-rate stereo machine are: 1) multi-image input of up to 6 cameras; 2) throughput of 30 million point/spl times/disparity measurement per second; 3) frame rate of 30 frame/sec; 4) a dense depth map of up to 256/spl times/240 pixels; 5) disparity search range of up to 60 pixels; 6) high precision of depth output up to 8 bits (with interpolation). The capability of passively producing such a dense depth map (3D representation) of a scene at the video rate can open up a new class of applications of 3D vision: merging real and virtual worlds in real time.

BibTeX

@conference{Kanade-1996-14158,
author = {Takeo Kanade and A. Yoshida and K. Oda and H. Kano and M. Tanaka},
title = {A Stereo Machine for Video-rate Dense Depth Mapping and Its New Applications},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
year = {1996},
month = {June},
pages = {196 - 202},
}