Definition
Spatiotemporal reasoning is the use of time-varying information in image sequences, together with assumptions about the properties of objects and the environment, to make predictive inferences or to test hypotheses about the scene.
Background
Spatiotemporal reasoning plays an important rôle in theories of human and animal vision, especially those associated with the ecological psychology school of J.J. Gibson and his followers [6]. A central idea is that the optic flow field provides active organisms with the means to pick up the affordances of their environment (the likely possibilities for future interaction with the environment). A seminal example is the case of an object approaching to the viewer along the line of sight and without rotation: in this case, the rate of expansion of the object's image specifies the inverse of the expected time to collision, assuming that the relative velocity remains constant.
The essential point of this example is that the time to...
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Young, D. (2014). Spatiotemporal Reasoning. In: Ikeuchi, K. (eds) Computer Vision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_315
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