Abstract: New kind of adaptive multiple windows stereo matching algorithm was presented, which can solve that easily appeared with error matching in textureless image in stereo matching. The algorithm adopts 8 same windows according the smooth situation of images to find appropriate support area by 8 direction, and this method is very suitable for parallel processing. Then presented a kind of adaptive region growing algorithm to solve that the obtained result by the above steps,which leaves something to be desired. Experimental results show that this method is whether in textureless regions or texture regions has greatly improved, and running time close to the traditional local fixed window method,which is suitable for real-time processing.

Key words: Stereo matching, Textureless, Adaptive multiple windows, Adaptive region growing, Parallel processing, Real-time matching