Fast Local Estimation of Optical Flow Using Variational and Wavelet Methods

  • Authors:
  • Kai Neckels

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CAIP '01 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a framework for fast (linear time) local estimation of optical flow in image sequences. Starting from the commonly used brightness constancy assumption, a simple differential technique is derived in a first step. Afterwards, this approach will be extended by the application of a nonlinear diffusion process to the flow field in order to reduce smoothing at motion boundaries. Due to the ill-posedness of the determination of optical flow from the related differential equations, a Wavelet-Galerkin projection method is applied to regularize and linearize the problem.