Covariance estimation for SAD block matching

Authors:
Johan Skoglund;Michael Felsberg
Affiliations:
Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Venue:
SCIA'07 Proceedings of the 15th Scandinavian conference on Image analysis
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The estimation of a patch position in an image is a long established but still relevant topic with many applications, e.g. pose estimation and tracking in image sequences. In most systems the position estimate needs to be fused with other estimates, and hence, covariance information is required to weight the different estimates in the right way. In this paper we address the issue with covariance estimation in the case of sum of absolute difference (SAD) block matching. First, we derive the theory for covariance estimation in the case of SAD matching. Second, we evaluate the suggested method in a virtual 3D patch tracking scenario in order to verify the performance in real-world scenarios.