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

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 ? disparity measurement per second; 3) frame rate of 30 frame/sec; 4) a dense depth map of up to 256 ? 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CVPR
• Authors: Takeo Kanade, Atsushi Yoshida, Kazuo Oda, Hiroshi Kano, Masaya Tanaka
• Keywords: Computer Vision, CVPR 1996, Dense Depth Map, Depth Output, Disparity Search Range, Video Rate, Video-rate Stereo Machine