Title
Symmetrical Dense Optical Flow Estimation with Occlusions Detection
Abstract
Traditional techniques of dense optical flow estimation don't generally yield symmetrical solutions: the results will differ if they are applied between images I1 and I2 or between images I2 and I1. In this work, we present a method to recover a dense optical flow field map from two images, while explicitely taking into account the symmetry across the images as well as possible occlusions and discontinuities in the flow field. The idea is to consider both displacements vectors from I1 to I2 and I2 to I1 and to minimise an energy functional that explicitely encodes all those properties. This variational problem is then solved using the gradient flow defined by the Euler-Lagrange equations associated to the energy. In order to reduce the risk to be trapped within some irrelevant minimum, a focusing strategy based on a multi-resolution technique is used to converge toward the solution. Promising experimental results on both synthetic and real images are presented to illustrate the capabilities of this symmetrical variational approach to recover accurate optical flow.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/s11263-007-0041-4
International Journal of Computer Vision
Keywords
DocType
Volume
optical flow,PDEs,anisotropic diffusion,occlusion
Conference
75
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
3
1573-1405
3-540-43745-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
81
4.27
37
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis Álvarez112913.58
Rachid Deriche24903633.65
Théodore Papadopoulo332426.84
Javier Sánchez438331.84