Finding the focus of expansion and estimating range using optical flow images and a matched filter

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 229-236

  Sazbon, Didi ^a   Rotstein, Héctor ^a   Rivlin, Ehud ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Focus of expansion; Normal flow; Optical flow; Range estimation; Time to impact

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

FOCUS OF EXPANSION; LEAST-SQUARE MINIMIZATION; RANGE ESTIMATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 10044251403     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-004-0152-7     Document Type: Article

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