Optical flow: a curve evolution approach

  • Authors:
  • A. Kumar;A. R. Tannenbaum;G. J. Balas

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Aerosp. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

A novel approach for the computation of optical flow based on an L 1 type minimization is presented. It is shown that the approach has inherent advantages since it does not smooth the flow-velocity across the edges and hence preserves edge information. A numerical approach based on computation of evolving curves is proposed for computing the optical flow field. Computations are carried out on a number of real image sequences in order to illustrate the theory as well as the numerical approach