Detection of Intensity and Motion Edges within Optical Flow via Multidimensional Control

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Brune;Helmut Maurer;Marcus Wagner

  • Affiliations:
  • christoph.brune@uni-muenster.de and maurer@math.uni-muenster.de;-;marcus.wagner@uni-graz.at

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new optimization approach for the simultaneous computation of optical flow and edge detection therein. Instead of using an Ambrosio-Tortorelli type energy functional, we reformulate the optical flow problem as a multidimensional control problem. The optimal control problem is solved by discretization methods and large-scale optimization techniques. The edge detector can be immediately built from the control variables. We provide three series of numerical examples. The first shows that the mere presence of a gradient restriction has a regularizing effect, while the second demonstrates how to balance the regularizing effects of a term within the objective and the control restriction. The third series of numerical results is concerned with the direct evaluation of a TV-regularization term by introduction of control variables with sign restrictions.