IMAGE MATCHING USING A 3-LINE SCANNER

Recently, there is considerable interest in automated extraction of 3- D information through image matching. This paper presents an image mat ching system using Three Line Scanner (TLS) images, The disparity cons traint of the TLS images has been investigated and exploited to refine the initial disparity estimation, which is produced by a relaxation m atching. The effectiveness of our method with TLS is demonstrated by c omparing our results with those of matching only two line scanner imag es, It is shown that more accurate and reliable results are achieved w ith TLS.