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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2007
Applicants:
Ankur Agarwal, Cambridge, GB;
Andrew Blake, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Ankur Agarwal, Cambridge, GB;
Andrew Blake, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of segmenting image elements into a foreground and background is described, such that only the foreground elements are part of a volume of interest for stereo matching. This reduces computational burden as compared with computing stereo matching over the whole image. An energy function is defined using a probabilistic framework and that energy function approximated to require computation only over foreground disparities. An optimization algorithm is used on the energy function to perform the segmentation.