• DocumentCode
    3059046
  • Title

    Detection of small moving object by optical flow

  • Author

    Hirai, Takashi ; Sasakawa, Kouichi ; Kuroda, Shin-Ichi ; Ikebata, Shigeki

  • Author_Institution
    Ind. Electron. & Syst. Labs., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Hyogo, Japan
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    30 Aug-3 Sep 1992
  • Firstpage
    474
  • Lastpage
    478
  • Abstract
    Deals with a method of detecting small moving objects in an image sequence. Although it is difficult to recognize small objects in a single image, if they are moving in an image sequence, it is easy to detect them, no matter how small they are. In order to detect small objects with robotic eyes, The authors propose a new interpretation of optical flow. If a small moving object exists in the scene, a pair of feature points appear. The authors call these points the contraction point and the diffusion point. The paper proposes an extraction method for these points
  • Keywords
    feature extraction; image sequences; motion estimation; contraction point; diffusion point; feature extraction; image sequence; optical flow; small moving object detection; Eyes; Image edge detection; Image motion analysis; Image recognition; Image sequences; Industrial electronics; Laboratories; Object detection; Optical noise; Robots;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition, 1992. Vol.II. Conference B: Pattern Recognition Methodology and Systems, Proceedings., 11th IAPR International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    The Hague
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-2915-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.1992.201821
  • Filename
    201821