Optical flow computation using extended constraints

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 720-739

  Del Bimbo, Alberto ^a,b   Nesi, Paolo ^a,b   Sanz, Jorge L C ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EXTENDED OPTICAL FLOW CONSTRAINT; IMAGE BRIGHTNESS; OPTICAL FLOW CONSTRAINT;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 0030151628     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.495956     Document Type: Article

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