Parallel implementation of a robust optical flow technique

The accuracy and performance of current variational optical ow methods have considerably increased during the last years. The complexity of these techniques is high and enough care has to be taken for the implementation. The aim of this work is to present a comprehensible implementation of recent va...

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Autores: Sánchez, Javier, Monzón López, Nelson Manuel, Salgado de la Nuez, Agustín Javier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Repositorio:accedaCRIS portal de investigación de la Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria
OAI Identifier:oai:accedacris.ulpgc.es:10553/7429
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10553/7429
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:220990 Tratamiento digital. Imágenes
Optical flow
Variational methods
PDE
Multicore
OpenMP
Flujo óptico
Imágenes
Métodos variacionales
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Sumario:The accuracy and performance of current variational optical ow methods have considerably increased during the last years. The complexity of these techniques is high and enough care has to be taken for the implementation. The aim of this work is to present a comprehensible implementation of recent variational optical flow methods. We start with an energy model that relies on brightness and gradient constancy terms and a ow-based smoothness term. We minimize this energy model and derive an e cient implicit numerical scheme. In the experimental results, we evaluate the accuracy and performance of this implementation with the Middlebury benchmark database. We show that it is a competitive solution with respect to current methods in the literature. In order to increase the performance, we use a simple strategy to parallelize the execution on multi-core processors.