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NS-SOF: A non-feature matching approach for sparse optical flow

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to compute sparse optical flow field, which is different from the traditional feature matching methods such as SURF. The approach consists mainly of three novel parts. First, the improved PatchMatch that is tailored to sparse optical flow computation is used to generate NNF quickly. And the NNF is smoothed using a threshold filtering rather than global optimization for low complexity. Next, we use the superpixel method to segment the NNF and choose the representative optical flow for each segment using the statistical filtering. Finally, the outliers that are mistaken for inliers in the previous processing steps are removed using a global statistical filtering in the form of histograms. In the experiment, the approach is evaluated using real datasets provided by the KITTI benchmarks and compared with SURF and ORB. The result shows that our approach can generate more uniform sparse optical flow field with fewer outliers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, ACIRS 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages13-18
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509067923
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Jul 2017
Event2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, ACIRS 2017 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 16 Jun 201718 Jun 2017

Publication series

Name2017 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, ACIRS 2017

Conference

Conference2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, ACIRS 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period16/06/1718/06/17

Keywords

  • NNF
  • optical flow
  • sparse
  • statistical filtering
  • superpixel

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