The Intrinsic Structure of Optic Flow Incorporating Measurement Duality

International Journal of Computer Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-286

  Florack, Luc ^a   Messen, Wiro ^b   Nielsen, Mads ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; SEMANTICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; OPTICAL FLOWS;

IMAGE STRUCTURES; INTRINSIC STRUCTURES; OPTIC FLOW EXTRACTION; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MEASUREMENT DUALITY;

OPTICAL FLOWS; COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0032074086     PISSN: 09205691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007922215235     Document Type: Article

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