Global parametric image alignment via high-order approximation

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 244-259

  Keller, Y ^a   Averbuch, A ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Large motions; Motion estimation; Non linear optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PIXELS;

LARGE MOTIONS; NON LINEAR OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 38949167126     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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