Robust dynamic motion estimation over time, CVPR '91

11 June 2010

03:51

Robust dynamic motion estimation over time, Black, M. J. and Anandan, P., Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR-91, Maui, Hawaii, June 1991, pp. 296-302. (IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper Award.) This paper presents a novel approach to incrementally estimating visual motion over a sequence of images. We start by formulating constraints on image motion to account for the possibility of multiple motions. This is achieved by exploiting the notions of weak continuity and robust statistics in the formulation of the minimization problem. The resulting objective function is non-convex. Traditional stochastic relaxation techniques for minimizing such functions prove inappropriate for the task. We present a highly parallel incremental stochastic minimization algorithm which has a number of advantages over previous approaches. The incremental nature of the scheme makes it truly dynamic and permits the detection of occlusion and disocclusion boundaries.