Feature matching based on geometric constraints in weakly calibrated stereo views of curved scenes*

The identification of the correspondences of points of views is an important task. A new feature matching algorithm for weakly calibrated stereo images of curved scenes is proposed, based on mere geometric constraints. After initial correspondences are built via the epipolar constraint, many point-to-point image mappings called homographies are set up to predict the matching position for feature points. To refine the predictions and reject false correspondences, four schemes are proposed. Extensive experiments on simulated data as well as on real images of scenes of variant depths show that the proposed method is effective and robust.