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The visual perception of depth is a striking ability of the human visual system and an active part of research in fields like neurobiology, psychology, robotics, or computer vision. In real world scenarios, many different cues, such as shading, occlusion, or disparity are combined to perceive depth. As can be shown using random dot stereograms, however, disparity alone is sufficient for the generation of depth perception [1]. To compute the disparity map of an image, matching image regions in both images have to be found, i.e. the correspondence problem has to be solved. After this, it is possible to infer the depth of the scene. Specifically, we address the correspondence problem by inferring the transformations between image patches of the left and the right image. The transformations are modeled as Lie groups which can be learned efficiently [3]. First, we start from the assumption that horizontal disparity is caused by a horizontal shift only. In that case, the transformation matrix can be constructed analytically according to the Fourier shift theorem. The correspondence problem is then solved locally by finding the best matching shift for a complete image patch. The infinitesimal generators of a Lie group allow us to determine shifts smoothly down to subpixel resolution. In a second step, we use the general Lie group framework to allow for more general transformations. In this way, we infer a number of transform coefficients per image patch. We finally obtain the disparity map by combining the coefficients of (overlapping) image patches to a global disparity map. The stereo images were created using our 3D natural stereo image rendering system [2]. The advantage of these images is that we have ground truth information of the depth maps and full control over the camera parameters for the given scene. Finally, we explore how the obtained disparity maps can be used to compute accurate depth maps.
