An objective function for 3-D motion estimation from optical flow with lower error variance than maximum likelihood estimator

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 2, Issue , 1994, Pages 252-256

  Tagawa, N ^a   Toriu, T ^b   Endoh, T ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FLOWS;

ARBITRARY WEIGHTING; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; ERROR VARIANCE; GENERALIZED RAYLEIGH QUOTIENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 84998717604     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.1994.413570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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