Approximating optical flow within the MPEG-2 compressed domain

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-107

  Coimbra, Miguel Tavares ^a   Davies, Michael ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compressed domain information; Motion estimation; Motion vectors; Optical flow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COSINE TRANSFORMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOTION ESTIMATION;

COMPRESSED DOMAIN INFORMATION; MOTION VECTORS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; VIDEO SEGMENTATION;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 12344275383     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2004.837016     Document Type: Article

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