Implementation of a robust optical flow method for color images

We analyse the influence of colour information in optical flow methods. Typically, most of these techniques compute their solutions using grayscale intensities due to its simplicity and faster processing, ignoring the colour features. However, the current processing systems have minimized their comp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Monzón López, Nelson, Sánchez, Javier, Salgado de la Nuez, Agustín Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Repositorio:accedaCRIS portal de investigación de la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria
OAI Identifier:oai:accedacris.ulpgc.es:10553/12153
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10553/12153
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:220990 Tratamiento digital. Imágenes
Optical flow
Motion estimation
Variational techniques
Image registration
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Sumario:We analyse the influence of colour information in optical flow methods. Typically, most of these techniques compute their solutions using grayscale intensities due to its simplicity and faster processing, ignoring the colour features. However, the current processing systems have minimized their computational cost and, on the other hand, it is reasonable to assume that a colour image offers more details from the scene which should facilitate finding better flow fields. The aim of this work is to determine if a multi-channel approach supposes a quite enough improvement to justify its use. In order to address this evaluation, we use a multi-channel implementation of a well-known TV-L1 method. Furthermore, we review the state-of-the-art in colour optical flow methods. In the experiments, we study various solutions using grayscale and RGB images from recent evaluation datasets to verify the colour benefits in motion estimation.