Motion estimation involving discontinuities in multiresolution scheme

Laure Blanc-Feraud; Michel Barlaud; Thierry Gaidon

doi:10.1117/12.138647

1 July 1993 Motion estimation involving discontinuities in multiresolution scheme

Laure Blanc-Feraud, Michel Barlaud, Thierry Gaidon

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 32, Issue 7, (July 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.138647

Abstract

A motion field estimation method for image sequence coding is presented. Motion vector field is estimated to remove the temporal redundancy between two successive images of a sequence. Motion estimation is an ill-posed inverse problem. Usually, the solution has been stabilized by regularization, as proposed by Tikhonov in 1963, i.e., by assuming a priori the smoothness of the solution. Here, discontinuities of the motion field are taken into account by using a Markov random field (MRF) model. Discontinuities, which unavoidably appear at the edges of a moving object, can be modeled by a continuous line process, as introduced by Geman and Reynolds in 1992, via a regularization function that belongs to the Φ function family. This line process leads to solutions less sensitive to noise than an all-or-nothing Boolean line process. Taking discontinuities into account leads to the minimization of a nonconvex functional to get the maximum a posteriori (MAP) optimal solution. We derive a new deterministic relaxation algorithm associated with the Φ function, to minimize the nonconvex criterion. We apply this algorithm in a coarse-to-fine multiresolution scheme, leading to more accurate results. We show results on synthetic and real-life sequences.

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Laure Blanc-Feraud, Michel Barlaud, and Thierry Gaidon "Motion estimation involving discontinuities in multiresolution scheme," Optical Engineering 32(7), (1 July 1993). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.138647

Published: 1 July 1993

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