Image Sequence Analysis: Motion Estimation

The processing of image sequences involving motion has become increasingly important. The following is a partial list of applications: 1) Military problems — Tracking of multi targets from video data. Measuring missile dynamics from video data. Target detection and recognition in Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) image sequences. 2) Industrial problems — Dynamic monitoring of industrial processes. Dynamic robot vision. 3) Commercial problems –– Bandwidth compression of TV conferencing and picture phone video signals. 4) Medical problems — Study of cell motion by mi crocinematography. Study of heart motion from X-ray movies. 5) Meteorology — Cloud tracking. 6) Transportation — Highway traffic monitoring.