pandora-plugin-libsgm 0.6.0

Pandora plugin to optimize the cost volume with the LibSGM library

Pandora plugin libSGM

Semi-Global Matching algorithm plugin for .

Overview • Install • Usage • Related • References

Overview

Pandora stereo matching framework is designed to provide some state of the art stereo algorithms and to add others one as plugins.
This Pandora plugin aims to optimize the cost volume following Semi-Global Matching algorithm, defined by [Hirschmuller], with the libSGM library .

Install

pandora_plugin_libsgm is available on Pypi and can be installed by:

pip install pandora_plugin_libsgm

This command will installed required dependencies as Pandora and libSGM.

Usage

Let's refer to Pandora's readme or online documentation for further information about Pandora general functionalities.

More specifically, you can find :

• SGM configuration file example
• documentation about SGM theory and parameters

Related

Pandora - A stereo matching framework
libSGM - C++/python implementation of semi-global matching algorithm

References

Please cite the following paper when using Pandora and pandora_plugin_libsgm:
Cournet, M., Sarrazin, E., Dumas, L., Michel, J., Guinet, J., Youssefi, D., Defonte, V., Fardet, Q., 2020. Ground-truth generation and disparity estimation for optical satellite imagery. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences.

[Hirschmuller] H. Hirschmuller, "Stereo Processing by Semiglobal Matching and Mutual Information," in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 328-341, Feb. 2008. doi: 10.1109/TPAMI.2007.1166