Large deformation diffeomorphisms with application to optic flow

  • Authors:
  • Bo Markussen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science, Universitetsparken 1, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Using standard statistical assumptions we derive a stochastic differential equation generating flows of diffeomorphisms. These stochastic processes provide a generative model for non-rigid registration and image warping problems. We give a mathematically rigorous derivation of the renormalized Brownian density in context of maximum a posteriori estimation of the underlying Brownian motions driving the warp flow. The second part of the paper combines the prior model with a likelihood model for image sequences. The combined model is employed to study the warp field for an image sequence of turbulent smoke.