RT Journal Article T1 Fuzzy cognitive maps for stereovision matching A1 Pajares Martínsanz, Gonzalo A1 Cruz García, Jesús Manuel de la AB This paper outlines a method for solving the stereovision matching problem using edge segments as the primitives. In stereovision matching the following constraints are commonly used: epipolar, similarity, smoothness, ordering and uniqueness. We propose a new matching strategy under a fuzzy context in which such constraints are mapped. The fuzzy context integrates both Fuzzy Clustering and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. With such purpose a network of concepts (nodes) is designed, each concept represents a pair of primitives to be matched. Each concept has associated a fuzzy value which determines the degree of the correspondence. The goal is to achieve high performance in terms of correct matches. The main findings of this paper are reflected in the use of the fuzzy context that allows building the network of concepts where the matching constraints are mapped. Initially, each concept value is loaded via the Fuzzy Clustering and then updated by the Fuzzy Cognitive Maps framework. This updating is achieved through the influence of the remainder neighboring concepts until a good global matching solution is achieved. Under this fuzzy approach we gain quantitative and qualitative matching correspondences. This method works as a relaxation matching approach and its performance is illustrated by comparative analysis against some existing global matching methods. (c) 2006 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. PB Pergamon-Elsevier Science LTD SN 0031-3203 YR 2006 FD 2006-11 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50889 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50889 LA eng NO © 2006 Pattern Recognition Society.Part of the work has been performed under Projects CICYTDPI2002-02924 and CICYT TAP94-0832-C02-01.The authors wish to acknowledge the constructive recommendationsprovided by the reviewers. NO CICYT DS Docta Complutense RD 9 abr 2025