Optical flow for compressive sensing video reconstruction

Although considerable effort has been devoted to the problem of reconstructing compressively sensed video, no existing algorithm achieves results comparable to commonly available video compression methods such as H.264. One possible avenue for improving compressively sensed video reconstruction is the use of optical flow information. Current efforts reported in the literature have not fully utilized optical flow information, instead focusing on limited cases such as stationary backgrounds with sparse foreground motion. In this paper, a reconstruction method is presented which fully utilizes optical flow information to increase the quality of reconstruction. The special cases of known image motion and constant global image motion are presented, and the performance of the algorithm on existing datasets is evaluated.