Incremental estimation of image flow using a Kalman filter

  • Authors:
  • Ajit Singh

  • Affiliations:
  • Advanced Image Processing Project, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Many applications of visual motion, such as navigation and tracking, require that image flow be estimated in an on-line, incremental fashion. Kalman filtering provides a robust and efficient mechanism for recording image-flow estimates along with their uncertainty and for integrating new measurements with the existing estimates. In this paper, the fundamental form of motion information in time-varying imagery-conservation information-is recovered along with its uncertainty from a pair of images using a correlation-based approach. As more images are acquired, this information is integrated temporally and spatially using a Kalman filter. The uncertainty in the estimates decreases with the progress of time. This framework is shown to behave very well at the discontinuities of the flow field. Algorithms based on this framework are used to recover image flow from a variety of image sequences.