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A fundamental assumption made in formulating optical flow algorithms is that motion at any point in an image can be represented as a single pattern component undergoing a simple translation: even complex motion will ‘look like’ uniform displacement when viewed through a sufficiently small window. This assumption fails for a number of situations that commonly occur in real world images. For example, transparent surfaces moving past one another yield multiple motion components at a point.
We propose an alternative formulation of the local motion assumption in which there may be two distinct patterns undergoing different motions within a given local analysis region. We then present an algorithm for the analysis of transparent motion.
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Bergen, J.R., Burt, P.J., Hingorani, R., Peleg, S. (1990). Transparent-motion analysis. In: Faugeras, O. (eds) Computer Vision — ECCV 90. ECCV 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 427. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014908
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