The authors proposed recently a matching method of aerial photographs based on a so-called coarse-to-fine method. But it is not provided with a routine for processing images containing occluding areas. They attempt in this pafer to incorporate a routine for finding and processing occlusions. The discussion proceeds along the following outline.
(1) In the authors' method, measured x-parallaxes are low-pass-filtered fo filter the higher frequency noises included in them. But this operation forcibly reproduces the occluding terrain to be of smooth shape.
(2) The low-pass filter is substituted for the median filter which is characterized by preserving abrupt changes of x-parallaxes across the occlusions. The procedure for finding occlusions is carried out by use of this filter.
(3) It is demonstrated that the procedure (2) is valid in principle. But because matching stability of the authors' current method is still insufficient, a few wanderings occur even at other points than occlusions and they disturbe the correct matching.
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