Image morphing based on mutual information and optimal mass transport

Time domain image interpolation, or image morphing, refers to a class of techniques for generating a series of smoothly changing intermediate images between two given related images. In this note, we present a novel approach based on the theoiy of optimal mass transport, using mutual information (MI) as the similarity measurement. The potential applications also include image registmtion, compression and coding.

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