A method for distance estimation using intra-frame optical flow with an interlace camera

  • Authors:
  • Tsutomu Terada;Yuhki Suzuki;Masahiko Tsukamoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan;Westunitis, Co., Ltd., Kobe, Hyogo, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Mobile Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Recently, there are many researches on location estimation using optical flow, which is a well-known distance estimation method without any infrastructure. However, since the calculation of optical flow needs high computational power, it cannot adapt to high-speed movement. Therefore, in this paper, we propose intra-frame optical flow, which is a new distance estimation method using an interlace camera. It can estimate the high speed moving objects accurately because it uses two successive images with a very short scanning interval extracted from one image captured by an interlace camera. The evaluation result confirmed the effectiveness of our method.