Variational optical flow estimation based on stick tensor voting

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2589-2599

  Rashwan, Hatem A ^a   Garcia, Miguel A ^b   Puig, Domenec ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Stick tensor voting; variational optical flow; weighted nonlocal term

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION; NONLOCAL TERM; OPTICAL FLOW TECHNIQUES; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; REGULARIZATION TERMS; ROBUSTNESS AGAINST NOISE; TENSOR VOTING; VARIATIONAL OPTICAL FLOW ESTIMATION;

ANISOTROPY; FLOW FIELDS; OPTICAL FLOWS;

TENSORS;

EID: 84877918189     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2013.2253481     Document Type: Article

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