Scale invariant optical flow

  • Authors:
  • Li Xu;Zhenlong Dai;Jiaya Jia

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Scale variation commonly arises in images/videos, which cannot be naturally dealt with by optical flow. Invariant feature matching, on the contrary, provides sparse matching and could fail for regions without conspicuous structures. We aim to establish dense correspondence between frames containing objects in different scales and contribute a new framework taking pixel-wise scales into consideration in optical flow estimation. We propose an effective numerical scheme, which iteratively optimizes discrete scale variables and continuous flow ones. This scheme notably expands the practicality of optical flow in natural scenes containing various types of object motion.