An analysis of optical flow on real and simulated data with degradations

Josh Harguess; Chris Barngrover; Amin Rahimi

doi:10.1117/12.2265850

1 May 2017 An analysis of optical flow on real and simulated data with degradations

Josh Harguess, Chris Barngrover, Amin Rahimi

Proceedings Volume 10199, Geospatial Informatics, Fusion, and Motion Video Analytics VII; 1019905 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2265850
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2017, Anaheim, CA, United States

Abstract

Estimating the motion of moving targets from a moving platform is an extremely challenging problem in un-manned systems research. One common and often successful approach is to use optical flow for motion estimation to account for ego-motion of the platform and to then track the motion of surrounding objects. However, in the presence of video degradation such as noise, compression artifacts, and reduced frame rates, the performance of state-of-the-art optical flow algorithms greatly diminishes. We consider the effects of video degradation on two well-known optical flow datasets as well as on a real-world video data. To highlight the need for robust optical flow algorithms in the presence of real-world conditions, we present both qualitative and quantitative results on these datasets.

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Josh Harguess, Chris Barngrover, and Amin Rahimi "An analysis of optical flow on real and simulated data with degradations", Proc. SPIE 10199, Geospatial Informatics, Fusion, and Motion Video Analytics VII, 1019905 (1 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2265850

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