3-D SCENE RECONSTRUCTION FROM NOISY IMAGE SEQUENCES USING DATA FUSION

The system reconstructs 3-D scenes from sequences of noisy binocular i mages. First, the system establishes possible matches between the feat ure pixels in the first image pair and assigns a confidence value to a possible match. Each possible match is associated with a 3-D volume. The possible matches are used to predict projections of associated 3-D volumes onto the remaining image pairs. The new matches are used to u pdate confidence values using a Kalman filtering related fusion algori thm. Finally, matched pixels with high confidence values are used to r econstruct a 3-D scene.