Title
Focal Flow: Measuring Distance And Velocity With Defocus And Differential Motion
Abstract
We present the focal flow sensor. It is an unactuated, monocular camera that simultaneously exploits defocus and differential motion to measure a depth map and a 3D scene velocity field. It does so using an optical-flow-like, per-pixel linear constraint that relates image derivatives to depth and velocity. We derive this constraint, prove its invariance to scene texture, and prove that it is exactly satisfied only when the sensor's blur kernels are Gaussian. We analyze the inherent sensitivity of the ideal focal flow sensor, and we build and test a prototype. Experiments produce useful depth and velocity information for a broader set of aperture configurations, including a simple lens with a pillbox aperture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-46487-9_41
COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2016, PT III
Keywords
Field
DocType
Optical Flow,Image Patch,Pinhole Camera,Differential Motion,Sensor Distance
Aperture,Computer vision,Pinhole camera,Simple lens,Image derivatives,Vector field,Computer science,Gaussian,Artificial intelligence,Depth map,Optical flow
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9907
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emma Alexander121.04
Qi Guo24312.11
Sanjeev J. Koppal320017.11
Steven J. Gortler44205366.17
Todd Zickler5155571.72