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This paper is concerned with an efficient estimation and segmentation of 2-D motion from image sequences, with the focus on traffic monitoring applications. In order to reduce the computational load and facilitate real-time implementation, the proposed approach makes use of simplifying assumptions that the camera is stationary and that the projection of vehicles motion on the image plane can be approximated by translation. We show that a good performance can be achieved even under such apparently restrictive assumptions. To further reduce processing time, we perform gray-level based segmentation that extracts regions of uniform intensity. Subsequently, we estimate motion for the regions. Regions moving with the coherent motion are allowed to merge. The use of 2D motion analysis and the pre-segmentation stage significantly reduces the computational load, and the region-based estimator gives robustness to noise and changes of illumination.
The present work was supported in part by the projects ESPRIT PROJECT EP21007 IOTA and CICYT TIC95-0676-C02-01
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Badenas, J., Bober, M., Pla, F. (1997). Motion and intensity-based segmentation and its application to traffice monitoring. In: Del Bimbo, A. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1310. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63507-6_238
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