一种基于光流拟和航拍视频图像全局运动估算方法.PDFVIP

27 1 Vo l27 No1 200 6 1 ACT A A E RON A U T ICA ET A ST RO N AU T ICA SIN ICA J an. 2006 : 200 6) ( 71007 2) Global Motion Estimation by Fitting Optical Flow in Aerial Video Imagery X U Dong A N Jinw en ( Colleg e of A ut om atio n N ort hw estern Po lyt echnical U niv ersity X ian 7 1007 2 China) : : ; ; ; ; : T N9 11. 73 : A Abstract: A new model based g lo bal mo tion est im atio n m etho d is pr oposed by f itting o ptical flow f ield f o r aerial video im ag ery . P rio r to mot ion model f itting o ptica l flow s are f irst estim at ed b ased o n a multiresolution m ech anism . H ow ever du e to noisesensit ive def ect of standard linear reg ression t echniqu e the uncer tainties and indep endent motio ns o f o ptical flow estim at ion w ould ru in the f itting r esult o f g lo bal mo tion model . T here f o re instead of f itting the w ho le o ptical flo w f ield an arr ay o f no nover lapp ing flow reg io ns is u sed to deriv e an initial set o f motion model s by f itting each r eg io n sepa rately. Reg ion s w it h f it ting err or s g reater th an a pre scribed threshold ar e rejected since they do not prov ide a g oo d descript ion o f mo tion w it hin the r eg io n. F inally the r em aining o ptica l flo w s ar e f itted again w hich result s in a mor e accurat e motio n model. Ex p erim ental re sult s of both aeria l im ag e r egistr atio n and indep endent mo tio n det ection show the eff ectiveness of the alg or ithm pr oposed. Key words: g lob al mot ion estim atio n; motion