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<p>Multi-view stereo (MVS) is the general term
given to a group of techniques that use stereo correspondence as their
main cue and use more than two images.</p>
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<p>A quote from <a href="http://www.cse.wustl.edu/%7Efurukawa/papers/fnt_mvs.pdf" rel="noreferrer">'Multi-View Stereo: A Tutorial'</a> by Yasutaka Furukawa and Carlos Hernández.</p>
<p>So to paraphrase: We have a set of images that is larger than two, and use them in a pairwise manner by applying techniques that finde stereo correspondences to reconstruct the object shown in them.</p>
<p>If you want to know more about MVS algorithms that paper I linked seems to be pretty good and at least Furukawa is a name that I know and have read papers from, so he seems to know the topic.</p>

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<p>What 3D scene reconstruction methods does the term "multi-view stereo" encompass? Is it only used for methods that apply binocular stereo algorithms (taking 2 views as input) in a pairwise manner? Or only methods based on disparity estimation? If not why is the term "stereo" used?</p>

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Where have you seen that term? Stereo 3D reconstruction is a special case of multi-view reconstruction as far as I know. I have never seen the term "multi-view stereo".
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For example http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1153518
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What is stereo about multi-view stereo?
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# What is stereo about multi-view stereo?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-11)

What 3D scene reconstruction methods does the term "multi-view stereo" encompass? Is it only used for methods that apply binocular stereo algorithms (taking 2 views as input) in a pairwise manner? Or only methods based on disparity estimation? If not why is the term "stereo" used?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Where have you seen that term? Stereo 3D reconstruction is a special case of multi-view reconstruction as far as I know. I have never seen the term "multi-view stereo".  
> **username_0**: For example http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1153518  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-11. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

> Multi-view stereo (MVS) is the general term
> given to a group of techniques that use stereo correspondence as their
> main cue and use more than two images.

A quote from ['Multi-View Stereo: A Tutorial'](http://www.cse.wustl.edu/%7Efurukawa/papers/fnt_mvs.pdf) by Yasutaka Furukawa and Carlos Hernández.

So to paraphrase: We have a set of images that is larger than two, and use them in a pairwise manner by applying techniques that finde stereo correspondences to reconstruct the object shown in them.

If you want to know more about MVS algorithms that paper I linked seems to be pretty good and at least Furukawa is a name that I know and have read papers from, so he seems to know the topic.


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