Regularization of optic flow estimates by means of weighted vector median filtering

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1462-1467

  Alparone, Luciano ^a   Barni, Mauro ^b   Bartolini, Franco ^a   Caldelli, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ESTIMATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTICAL FLOWS; VECTORS;

PIXEL VELOCITY; VECTOR MEDIAN FILTERING; VECTORFIELD POSTPROCESSING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0033323399     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.791974     Document Type: Article

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