Adaptive Support Weight-Based Stereo Matching with Iterative Disparity Refinement
Real-time 3D reconstruction in minimally invasive surgery improves depth perception and supports intraoperative decision-making and navigation. However, endoscopic imaging presents significant challenges, such as specular reflections, low-texture surfaces, and tissue deformation. We present a novel,...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-07-01
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| Series: | Sensors |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/13/4124 |
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| Summary: | Real-time 3D reconstruction in minimally invasive surgery improves depth perception and supports intraoperative decision-making and navigation. However, endoscopic imaging presents significant challenges, such as specular reflections, low-texture surfaces, and tissue deformation. We present a novel, deterministic and iterative stereo-matching method based on adaptive support weights that is tailored to these constraints. The algorithm is implemented in CUDA and C++ to enable real-time performance. We evaluated our method on the Stereo Correspondence and Reconstruction of Endoscopic Data (SCARED) dataset and a custom synthetic dataset using the mean absolute error (MAE), root mean square error (RMSE), and frame rate as metrics. On SCARED datasets 8 and 9, our method achieves MAEs of 3.79 mm and 3.61 mm, achieving 24.9 FPS on a system with an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and NVIDIA RTX 3090. To the best of our knowledge, these results are on par with or surpass existing deterministic stereo-matching approaches. On synthetic data, which eliminates real-world imaging errors, the method achieves an MAE of 140.06 μm and an RMSE of 251.9 μm, highlighting its performance ceiling under noise-free, idealized conditions. Our method focuses on single-shot 3D reconstruction as a basis for stereo frame stitching and full-scene modeling. It provides accurate, deterministic, real-time depth estimation under clinically relevant conditions and has the potential to be integrated into surgical navigation, robotic assistance, and augmented reality workflows. |
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| ISSN: | 1424-8220 |