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Real-time quantized optical flow


Author(s) : Ted Camus, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1997
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : Algorithms based on the correlation of image patches can be robust in practice but are computationally intensive due to the computational complexity of their search-based nature. Performing the search over time instead of over space is linear in nature, rather than quadratic, and results in a very efficient algorithm. This, combined with implementations which are highly efficient on standard computing hardware, yields performance of 9 frames per second on a scientific workstation. Although the resulting velocities are quantized with resulting quantization error, they have been shown to be sufficiently accurate for many robotic vision tasks such as time-to-collision and robotic navigation. Thus, this algorithm is highly suitable for realtime robotic vision research.,