17.2.3 Optical Flow Along Contours

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Contours. Optical Flow. Optical Flow, Contours.

Bergholm, F., and Carlsson, S.,
A 'Theory' of Optical Flow,
CVGIP(53), No. 2, March 1991, pp. 171-188.
WWW Version. BibRef 9103
Earlier: A1 only: ISRN KTH/NA/P--88/10--SE, 1988. BibRef
Earlier:
Global Structure of Velocity Fields and the Aperture Problem in the Large,
ISRN KTH/NA/P-87/15-SE, 1987. Analysis of curves in motion with normal flow and a few estimates at feature points, produce a catalog of ambiguous curves and also derive field lines of optical flow. Theory is appropriate in the title. BibRef

Bergholm, F.,
Motion from Flow Along Contours: A Note on Robustness and Ambiguous Cases,
IJCV(2), No. 4, April 1989, pp. 395-415.
WWW Version. BibRef 8904
And: ` ISRN KTH/NA/P--87/07--SE. Ambiguous curves: contours without unique motion from normal velocity. Must use more global information since local information is almost always ambiguous. BibRef

Bergholm, F.,
On the Content of Information in Edges and Optical Flow,
Ph.D.Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science, Royal Institute of Technology, May 1989. BibRef 8905 ISRN KTH/NA/P--89/04--SE. BibRef

Bergholm, F.,
Decomposition Theory and Transformations of Visual Directions,
ICCV90(85-90).
IEEE DOI may work or IEEE-CS DOI may work. BibRef 9000

Hildreth, E.C., (MIT),
Computing the Velocity Field along Contours,
Motion83(26-32). BibRef 8300
Earlier:
The Integration of Motion Information along Contours,
CVWS82(83-91). Requires application of local constraints, since the problem is inherently ambiguous. The use of the moving contour is important. Compare to Davis paper. See also Computation of the Velocity Field, The. BibRef

Davis, L.S.[Larry S.], Wu, Z.Q.[Zhong-Quan], and Sun, H.[Hanfang],
Contour-Based Motion Estimation,
CVGIP(23), No. 3, September 1983, pp. 313-326.
WWW Version. BibRef 8309
And: Correction: CVGIP(28), No. 1, October 1984, pp. 134. BibRef
Earlier: DARPA82(124-131). A contour based approach to motion, compute motion at corners, then propagate along the contours to reach a steady state based on a local 2.5-D motion assumption. Compare to Hildreth BibRef

Faugeras, O.D.,
On the Motion of 3D Curves and Its Relationship to Optical Flow,
ECCV90(105-117).
WWW Version. BibRef 9000
And: INRIA-Sophia AntipolisNo. 1183, March 1990. Establish equations given that the curves do not change much. BibRef

Faugeras, O.D., Papadopoulo, T.,
A Theory of the Motion Fields of Curves,
IJCV(10), 1993, pp. 125-156.
WWW Version.
Postscript Version. BibRef 9300

Papadopoulo, T.[Theo], Faugeras, O.D.[Olivier D.],
Computing Structure and Motion of General 3D Curves from Monocular Sequences of Perspective Images,
ECCV96(II:696-708).
WWW Version. BibRef 9600
And:
Motion Field of Curves: Applications,
ECCV94(A:71-82).
WWW Version. BibRef

Waxman, A.M., and Wohn, K.,
The Analytic Structure of Image Flows: Deformation and Segmentation,
CVGIP(49), No. 2, February 1990, pp. 127-151.
WWW Version. From local and global flow structure, determine the analytic boundaries and thus motion based segmentations. Multiple frame extensions are suggested. See also Binocular Image Flows: Steps Toward Stereo-Motion Fusion. BibRef 9002

Waxman, A.M., and Wohn, K.,
Contour Evolution, Neighbourhood Deformation and Global Image Flow: Planar Surfaces in Motion,
IJRR(4), 1985, pp. 95-108. BibRef 8500
Earlier: UMD-CAR-TR-58, April, 1984. Introduces the Taylor series expansion of the motion equations. BibRef

Waxman, A.M., Wohn, K.,
Contour Evolution, Neighborhood Deformation and Image Flow: Textured Surfaces in Motion,
IU87(72-98). BibRef 8700

Waxman, A.M., and Wohn, K.,
Image Flow Theory: A Framework for 3-D Inference from Time-Varying Imagery,
ACV88(I 165-224). BibRef 8800

Waxman, A.M.[Allen M.], (UMd),
An Image Flow Paradigm,
CVWS84(49-57). BibRef 8400
And: RCV87(145-168). A general paper to address several issues of what is required for using optic flow data, and generating 3-D descriptions from the 2-D input data. BibRef

Wu, J., and Wohn, K.,
On the Deformation of Image Intensity and Zero-Crossing Contours under Motion,
CVGIP(53), No. 1, January 1991, pp. 66-75.
WWW Version. BibRef 9101

Waxman, A.M., Wu, J., Bergholm, F.,
Convected Activation Profiles and the Measurement of Visual Motion,
CVPR88(717-723).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. BibRef 8800

Waxman, A.M., and Bergholm, F.,
Convected Activation Profiles and Image Flow Extraction,
ISRN KTH/NA/P-87/10-SE, August 1987. BibRef 8708

Bhanu, B.[Bir], and Burger, W.,
Approximation of Displacement Fields Using Wavefront Region Growing,
CVGIP(41), No. 3, March 1988, pp. 306-322.
WWW Version. BibRef 8803
And:
Estimation of Image Motion Using Wavefront Region Growing,
ICCV87(428-432). It might really be motion, but it seems to be contour matching. Match the contours through a sequence and get the corresponding points along the contour. BibRef

Wu, J., Brockett, R., and Wohn, K.,
A Contour-Based Recovery of Image Flow: Iterative Transformation Method,
PAMI(13), No. 8, August 1991, pp. 746-760.
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference.
WWW Version. BibRef 9108
Earlier:
A Contour-based Recovery of Image Flow: Iterative Method,
CVPR89(124-129).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. Start from the (normal velocity) flow of the contour and smooth it across the image to get a complete flow field. BibRef

Brockett, R.W.,
Gramians, Generalized Inverses, and the Least-Squares Approximation of Optical Flow,
JVCIR(1), 1990, pp. 3-11. BibRef 9000

Wohn, K., and Wu, J.,
3-D Motion Recovery from Time-Varying Optical Flows,
AAAI-86(670-675). BibRef 8600

d'Haeyer, J.[Johan], and Bruyland, I.,
Parallel Computation of Image Curve Velocity Fields,
CVGIP(43), No. 2, August 1988, pp. 239-255.
WWW Version. Parallel solution of a regularization problem. BibRef 8808

d'Haeyer, J.[Johan],
Determining Motion of Image Curves from Local Pattern Changes,
CVGIP(34), No. 2, May 1986, pp. 166-188.
WWW Version. (Univ. of Ghent). The velocity field along a contour is found using a differential equation. A minimum dilation principle is used to find nonelastic motion or 2-D rigid motion. Applied to sign language images. BibRef 8605

Arnspang, J.,
On the Use of the Horizon of a Translating Planar Curve,
PRL(10), 1989, pp. 61-69. BibRef 8900

Park, J.S.[Jong Seung], and Han, J.H.[Joon Hee],
Estimating Optical Flow by Tracking Contours,
PRL(18), No. 7, July 1997, pp. 641-648. 9711 BibRef
Earlier:
A Curvature-Based Approach to Contour Motion Estimation,
ICCV98(1018-1023).
IEEE DOI may work or IEEE-CS DOI may work. See also Contour Matching: A Curvature-Based Approach. BibRef

Park, J.S., Han, J.H.,
Contour Motion Estimation from Image Sequences Using Curvature Information,
PR(31), No. 1, January 1998, pp. 31-39.
WWW Version. 9802 BibRef

Guerrero, J.J., Sagues, C.,
Camera motion from brightness on lines. Combination of features and normal flow,
PR(32), No. 2, February 1999, pp. 203-216.
WWW Version. BibRef 9902


Barron, J.L.[John L.], Daniel, M., Mari, J.,
Using 3D Spline Differentiation to Compute Quantitative Optical Flow,
CRV06(11-11).
IEEE DOI may work or IEEE-CS DOI may work. 0607 BibRef

Estépar, R.S.J.[Raúl San José], Haker, S.[Steve], Westin, C.F.[Carl-Fredrik],
Riemannian Mean Curvature Flow,
ISVC05(613-620).
WWW Version. 0512 BibRef

Chamorro-Martinez, J., Fdez-Valdivia, J.,
Optical flow estimation based on the extraction of motion patterns,
ICIP03(I: 925-928).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. 0312 BibRef

Neckels, K.[Kai],
Fast Local Estimation of Optical Flow Using Variational and Wavelet Methods,
CAIP01(349 ff.).
HTML Version. 0210 BibRef

El-Feghali, R., Mitiche, A.,
Fast Computation of a Boundary Preserving Estimate of Optical Flow,
BMVC00(xx-yy).
PDF Version. 0009 BibRef

Otsuka, K., Horikoshi, T., Suzuki, S.,
Image Velocity Estimation from Trajectory Surface in Spatiotemporal Space,
CVPR97(200-205).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference.
WWW Version. 9704Spatio-temporal space use edges. BibRef

Bergholm, F.,
A Theory on Optical Velocity Fields and Ambiguous Motion of Curves,
ICCV88(165-176).
IEEE Abstract. IEEE Top Reference. BibRef 8800

Chapter on Optical Flow Field Computations and Use continues in
Optical Flow Field Computation -- Gradient Techniques .


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