Title :
Detection of small moving object by optical flow
Author :
Hirai, Takashi ; Sasakawa, Kouichi ; Kuroda, Shin-Ichi ; Ikebata, Shigeki
Author_Institution :
Ind. Electron. & Syst. Labs., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Hyogo, Japan
fDate :
30 Aug-3 Sep 1992
Abstract :
Deals with a method of detecting small moving objects in an image sequence. Although it is difficult to recognize small objects in a single image, if they are moving in an image sequence, it is easy to detect them, no matter how small they are. In order to detect small objects with robotic eyes, The authors propose a new interpretation of optical flow. If a small moving object exists in the scene, a pair of feature points appear. The authors call these points the contraction point and the diffusion point. The paper proposes an extraction method for these points
Keywords :
feature extraction; image sequences; motion estimation; contraction point; diffusion point; feature extraction; image sequence; optical flow; small moving object detection; Eyes; Image edge detection; Image motion analysis; Image recognition; Image sequences; Industrial electronics; Laboratories; Object detection; Optical noise; Robots;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 1992. Vol.II. Conference B: Pattern Recognition Methodology and Systems, Proceedings., 11th IAPR International Conference on
Conference_Location :
The Hague
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2915-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.1992.201821