Stereoscopic Learning for Disparity Estimation

In this paper, we propose a learning based approach to estimating pixel disparities from the motion information extracted out of input monoscopic video sequences. We represent each video frame with superpixels, and extract the motion features from the superpixels and the frame boundary. These motion features account for the motion pattern of the superpixel as well as camera motion. In the learning phase, given a pair of stereoscopic video sequences, we employ a state-of-the-art stereo matching method to compute the disparity map of each frame as ground truth. Then a multi-label SVM is trained from the estimated disparities and the corresponding motion features. In the testing phase, we use the learned SVM to predict the disparity for each superpixel in a monoscopic video sequence. Experiment results show that the proposed method achieves low error rate in disparity estimation.