The performance of camera translation direction estimators from optical flow: Analysis, comparison, and theoretical limits

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 927-932

  Earnshaw, A Mark ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Linear constraints; Optical flow; Performance comparison; Translation direction estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PERFORMANCE;

CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; IMAGE SEQUENCES; LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; TRANSLATION DIRECTION ESTIMATORS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030246263     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.537346     Document Type: Article

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