Title :
Regularization of optic flow estimates by means of weighted vector median filtering
Author :
Alparone, Luciano ; Barni, Mauro ; Bartolini, Franco ; Caldelli, Roberto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Florence Univ., Italy
fDate :
10/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Vector median filtering has been recently proposed as an effective method to refine estimated velocity fields. Here, the use of a weighted vector median filtering is suggested to improve the regularization of the optic flow field across motion boundaries. Information about the confidence of the estimated pixel velocities is exploited for the choice of the filter weights. Experimental results, on both synthetic and real-world sequences, show the effectiveness of the proposed procedure
Keywords :
filtering theory; image sequences; least squares approximations; median filters; motion estimation; confidence; estimated pixel velocities; estimated velocity fields refinement; experimental results; filter weights; least squares estimation algorithm; motion boundaries; optic flow estimates; optic flow field regularization; real-world sequences; synthetic sequences; weighted vector median filtering; Diversity reception; Filtering; Gaussian distribution; Histograms; Image motion analysis; Image texture analysis; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Signal processing; Wrapping;
Journal_Title :
Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on