TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mikhail Mozerov
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Constrained Optical Flow Estimation as a Matching Problem
T2  - TIP
JO  - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
SP  - 2044
EP  - 2055
VL  - 22
IS  - 5
N2  - In general, discretization in the motion vector domain yields an intractable number of labels. In this paper we propose an approach that can reduce general optical flow to the constrained matching problem by pre-estimating a 2D disparity labeling map of the desired discrete motion vector function. One of the goals of the proposed paper is estimating coarse distribution of motion vectors and then utilizing this distribution as global constraints for discrete optical flow estimation. This pre-estimation is done with a simple frame-to-frame correlation technique also known as the digital symmetric-phase-only-filter (SPOF). We discover a strong correlation between the output of the SPOF and the motion vector distribution of the related optical flow. The two step matching paradigm for optical flow estimation is applied: pixel accuracy (integer flow), and subpixel accuracy estimation. The matching problem is solved by global optimization. Experiments on the Middlebury optical flow datasets confirm our intuitive assumptions about strong correlation between motion vector distribution of optical flow and maximal peaks of SPOF outputs. The overall performance of the proposed method is promising and achieves state-of-the-art results on the Middlebury benchmark.
SN  - 1057-7149
UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6423912&contentType=Early+Access+Articles&searchField%3DSearch_All%26queryText%3Dmozerov
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2013.2244221
N1  - ISE
ID  - Mikhail Mozerov2013
ER  -