Dense estimation of fluid flows

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 365-380

  Corpetti, Thomas ^a   Mémin, Étienne ^a   Pérez, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuity equation; Div curl regularization; Divergence concentration; Fluid motion; Nonconvex minimization; Trajectories; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID MECHANICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CONTINUITY EQUATION; METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE IMAGE; NONCONVEX MINIMIZATION; QUASI-RIGID MOTION; SECOND-ORDER DIV-CURL REGULARIZATION;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 0036522462     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.990137     Document Type: Article

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