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14 February 1992 Spatiotemporal filtering for visual motion estimation from real images
Patrizia Baraldi, Massimo Tistarelli, Giulio Sandini, Francesca Gandolfo
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Proceedings Volume 1613, Mobile Robots VI; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.135182
Event: Robotics '91, 1991, Boston, MA, United States
Abstract
The effects of regularization techniques applied to the estimation of visual motion are investigated. A new method to compute the optical flow from a sequence of time-varying images is used. It is based on second-order derivatives of the image brightness and it is applied to evaluate 3-D motion parameters like the time-to-impact from translational motion. In particular, quantitative results are presented on the influence that spatio-temporal filtering of real image sequences with 2-D and 3-D (where the third dimension is time) smoothing operators has on the estimation of such parameters. The experiments show that, performing a three-dimensional filtering of the image sequence, remarkable accuracy can be reached, even using a small spatial kernel. Moreover, computing the optical flow only on intensity edges it gives the same 3-D motion parameter estimate as considering the whole field, provided that a small spatial kernel is used. The experiments presented in this paper demonstrate the applicability of the methods to a large number of computer vision applications.
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Patrizia Baraldi, Massimo Tistarelli, Giulio Sandini, and Francesca Gandolfo "Spatiotemporal filtering for visual motion estimation from real images", Proc. SPIE 1613, Mobile Robots VI, (14 February 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.135182
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KEYWORDS
Optical flow

Image filtering

Digital signal processing

Motion estimation

3D image processing

Gaussian filters

Optical filters

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