Robust dense optical flow.

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Description:

This tar file contains experimental C-code, and examples, for computing dense optical flow fields robustly.

This code computes a dense optical flow field using a robust estimation technique. The basic method uses a coarse-to-fine gradient-based flow computation much like the Horn and Schunck algorithm. The difference is that the problem is formulated robustly to allow violations of the brightness constancy and spatial coherence assumptions.

This is a very basic version of the code. My hope is that it helps illustrate the main ideas involved with robust regularization. In addition to being illustrative, it actually computes decent flow fields.

References:

Black, M. J. and Anandan, P., The robust estimation of multiple motions: Parametric and piecewise-smooth flow fields, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, CVIU, 63(1), pp. 75-104, Jan. 1996. (abstract)

Black, M. J. and Anandan, P., A framework for the robust estimation of optical flow, Fourth International Conf. on Computer Vision, ICCV-93, Berlin, Germany, May, 1993, pp. 231-236. (postscript)