Estimating optical flow by tracking contours

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 641-648

  Park, Jong Seung ^a   Han, Joon Hee ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Contour motion; Optical flow; Snake

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CONTOUR MOTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SEQUENCE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031177522     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8655(97)00048-2     Document Type: Article

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