Optical flow determination using pyramidal block matching

摘要

An image processing system includes a processor and optical flow determination logic. The optical flow determination logic is to quantify relative motion of a feature present in a first frame of video and a second frame of video with respect to the two frames of video. The optical flow determination logic configures the processor to convert each of the frames of video into a hierarchical image pyramid. The image pyramid comprises a plurality of image levels. Image resolution is reduced at each higher one of the image levels. For each image level and for each pixel in the first frame, the processor is configured to establish an initial estimate of a location of the pixel in the second frame and to apply a plurality of sequential searches, starting from the initial estimate, that establish refined estimates of the location of the pixel in the second frame.