Title
3D motion estimation of bubbles of gas in fluid glass, using an optical flow gradient technique extended to a third dimension
Abstract
To solve the problem of estimating velocities of gas bubbles in melted glass, a method based on optical flow constraint (OFC) has been extended to the 3D case. A single camera, whose distance to the fluid is variable in time, is used to capture a sequence of frames at different depths. Since objects are not static, we cannot obtain two frames of different height values at the same time, and to our knowledge, this prevents the use of common 3D motion estimation techniques. Since the information will be rather sparse, our estimation takes several measures around a given pixel and discards the erroneous ones, using a robust estimator. Along with the exposition of the practical application, the estimation proposed here is first contrasted in the 2D case to common benchmarks and then evaluated for a synthetic problem where velocities are known.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/s00138-002-0117-7
Mach. Vis. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
3d motion parameter,motion estimation technique,optical flow constraint,fluid glass,gas bubble,different depth,synthetic problem,optical flow,depth computation,robust estimation,3d reconstruction,melted glass,robust estimator,common benchmarks,practical application,different height value,optical flow gradient technique,motion estimation
Computer vision,Computer science,Robust statistics,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Motion estimation,Optical flow,3D reconstruction
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
3
0932-8092
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
José Otero155224.66
A. Otero200.34
Sanchez, L.337723.74