On the Mathematical Foundations of Smoothness Constraints for the Determination of Optical Flow and for Surface Reconstruction

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 1105-1114

  Snyder, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

flow; Minimization techniques; motion analysis; optical; smoothness constraints; tensor analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--APPLICATIONS; SURFACES;

GRAY LEVEL IMAGES; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0026255016     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.103272     Document Type: Article

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