Quantitative color optical flow

We perform a qualitative and quantitative analysis of various multi-frame color optical flow methods for synthetic and real panning and zooming image sequences. We show that optical flow accuracy improvement can be slightly improved if color images are available instead of gray value or saturation images. We show the usefulness of a directional regularization constraint for computing optical flow when the camera motion is known to be panning or zooming.

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