Robust optical flow estimation

In this work, we describe an implementation of the variational method proposed by Brox et al. in 2004, which yields accurate optical flows with low running times. It has several benefits with respect to the method of Horn and Schunck: it is more robust to the presence of outliers, produces piecewise...

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Autores: Sánchez, Javier, Monzón López, Nelson, Salgado de la Nuez, Agustín Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Repositorio:accedaCRIS portal de investigación de la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria
OAI Identifier:oai:accedacris.ulpgc.es:10553/11334
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10553/11334
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:220990 Tratamiento digital. Imágenes
Optical flow
Motion estimation
Variational techniques
PDE
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Sumario:In this work, we describe an implementation of the variational method proposed by Brox et al. in 2004, which yields accurate optical flows with low running times. It has several benefits with respect to the method of Horn and Schunck: it is more robust to the presence of outliers, produces piecewise-smooth flow fields and can cope with constant brightness changes. This method relies on the brightness and gradient constancy assumptions, using the information of the image intensities and the image gradients to find correspondences. It also generalizes the use of continuous L1 functionals, which help mitigate the efect of outliers and create a Total Variation (TV) regularization. Additionally, it introduces a simple temporal regularization scheme that enforces a continuous temporal coherence of the flow fields.