Integration of multiple temporal and spatial scales for robust optic flow estimation in a biologically inspired algorithm

Authors:
Cornelia Beck;Thomas Gottbehuet;Heiko Neumann
Affiliations:
Inst. for Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany;Inst. for Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany;Inst. for Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany
Venue:
CAIP'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computer analysis of images and patterns
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We present a biologically inspired iterative algorithm for motion estimation that combines the integration of multiple temporal and spatial scales. This work extends a previously developed algorithm that is based on mechanisms of motion processing in the human brain [1]. The temporal integration approach realizes motion detection using one reference frame and multiple past and/or future frames leading to correct motion estimates at positions that are temporarily occluded. In addition, this mechanism enables the detection of subpixel movements and therefore achieves smoother and more precise flow fields. We combine the temporal integration with a recently proposed spatial multi scale approach [2]. The combination further improves the optic flow estimates when the image contains regions of different spatial frequencies and represents a very robust and efficient algorithm for optic flow estimation, both on artificial and real-world sequences.