Title
Stdc-Flow: Large Displacement Flow Field Estimation Using Similarity Transformation-Based Dense Correspondence
Abstract
In order to improve the accuracy and robustness of optical flow computation under large displacements and motion occlusions, the authors present in this study a large displacement flow field estimation approach using similarity transformation-based dense correspondence, named STDC-Flow approach. First, the authors compute an initial nearest-neighbour field by using the STDC-Flow of the consecutive two frames, and then extract the consistent regions as the robust nearest-neighbour field and label the inconsistent regions as the occlusion areas. Second, they improve a non-local total variation with the L1 norm optical flow model by using the occlusion information to modify the weighted median filtering optimisation. Third, they fuse the robust nearest-neighbour field and the computed flow field of the improved variational optical flow model to construct the final flow field by using the quadratic pseudo-boolean optimisation fusion algorithm. Finally, the authors compare the proposed STDC-Flow method with several state-of-the-art approaches including the variational and deep learning-based optical flow models by using the MPI-Sintel and KITTI evaluation databases. The comparison results demonstrate that the proposed STDC-Flow method has a high accuracy for flow field computation, especially the capacity of dealing with large displacements and motion occlusions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1049/iet-cvi.2019.0321
IET COMPUTER VISION
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
14
5
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1751-9632
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhen Chen1305.97
Congxuan Zhang243.78
Xiong Fan364.65
Wen Liu401.35
Ming Li507.44
Liyue Ge611.36