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The Improving Characteristics of the Gradual Gaussian Multidimensional Pre-filter for Optical Flow Estimation

Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China

Funding project:国家自然科学基金资助项目(60205001);国家自然科学创新研究群体科学基金资助项目(60024301) Received: 2003-11-05 Revised: 2003-01-17 Available online: 2004-12-20

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Abstract

Based on the unified estimation-theoretic framework, an effective method of using the gradual Gaussian multidimensional pre-filter to improve the optical flow estimation is presented. The pre-filtering and smoothing effect, which attenuate the temporal aliasing and the interesting signal structure of the optical flow field, are altered with adjusting the spatiotemporal standard deviation parameters. The first 50 frames of the standard Flower Garden and Football video sequence are tested as the reference image sequences, and the LK algorithm as the reference optical flow computing method. Experimental results in objective evaluation show that the optimum temporal standard deviation parameter is 0.4, the optimum spatial standard deviation parameter is in a range of 1.6~2.0 under the condition that the pre-filtering window size is 5 × 5 pixels. After pre-filtering the image sequence by the Gaussian multidimensional filter, the average PSNR of the reconstructed frames enhance 2.572 dB, higher than that using the standard optical flow computing method by nearly 13.6 % .

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