Accurate optical flow computation under non-uniform brightness variations

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 315-346

  Teng, Chin Hung ^a   Lai, Shang Hong ^a   Chen, Yung Sheng ^b   Hsu, Wen Hsing ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brightness variation; Motion analysis; Motion discontinuity; Motion estimation; Optical flow computation; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; MOTION ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BRIGTHNESS VARIATION; MOTION ANALYSIS; MOTION DISCONTINUITY; OPTICAL FLOW COMPUTATION; ROBUST ESTIMATION;

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 9644265344     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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