Statistical Analysis of Inherent Ambiguities in Recovering 3-D Motion From a Noisy Flow Field

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1992, Pages 995-1013

  Young, Gem Sun Jason ^a   Chellappa, Rama ^b  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MOTION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FLOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0026941945     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.159903     Document Type: Article

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