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Computing Motion from Images

Chapter 9 of S&S plus otherwork.

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General topics

Low level change detection Region tracking or matching over

time Interpretation of motion MPEG compression Interpretation of scene changes in

video Understanding human activites

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Motion important to human vision

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What’s moving: different cases

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Image subtraction

Simple method to remove unchanging background from

moving regions.

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Change detection for surveillance

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Change detection by image subtraction

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What to do with regions of change?

Discard small regions Discard regions of non interesting

features Keep track of regions with

interesting features Track in future frames from motion

plus component features

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Some effects of camera motion that can cause problems

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Motion field

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FOE and FOC

Will return to use the FOE or FOC or detection of panning to determine what the camera is doing in video tapes.

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Gaming using a camera to recognize the player’s motion

Decathlete game

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Decathlete game

Cheap camera replaces usual mouse for input

Running speed and jumping of the avatar is controlled by detected motion of the player’s hands.

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Motion detection input device

Running (hands)Jumping (hands)

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Motion analysis controls hurdling event (console)

•Top left shows video frame of player

•Middle left shows motion vectors from multiple frames

•Center shows jumping patterns

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Related work

Motion sensed by crude cameras Person dances/gestures in space System maps movement into

music Creative environment? Good exercise room?

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Computing motion vectors from corresponding “points”

High energy neighborhoods are used to define points for

matching

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Match points between frames

Such large motions are unusual. Most systems track small motions.

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Requirements for interest points

Match small neighborhood to small neighborhood. The previous “scene” contains several highly textured neighborhoods.

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Interest = minimum directional variance

Used by Hans Moravec in his robot stereo vision system.

Interest points were used for stereo matching.

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Detecting interest points in I1

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Match points from I1 in I2

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Search for best match of point P1 in nearby window of I2

For both motion and stereo, we have some constraints on where to search for a matching interest point.

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Motion vectors clustered to show 3 coherent regions

All motion vectors are clustered into 3 groups of similar vectors showing motion of 3 independent objects. (Dina Eldin)

Motion coherence: points of same object tend to move in the same way

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Two frames of aerial imagery

Video frame N and N+1 shows slight movement: most pixels are same, just in different locations.

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Can code frame N+d with displacments relative to frame N

for each 16 x 16 block in the 2nd image

find a closely matching block in the 1st image

replace the 16x16 intensities by the location in the 1st image (dX, dY)

256 bytes replaced by 2 bytes! (If blocks differ too much, encode the

differences to be added.)

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Frame approximation

Left is original video frame N+1. Right is set of best image blocks taken from frame N. (Work of Dina Eldin)

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Best matching blocks between video frames N+1 to N (motion vectors)

The bulk of the vectors show the true motion of the airplane taking the pictures. The long vectors are incorrect motion vectors, but they do work well for compression of image I2!

Best matches from 2nd to first image shown as vectors overlaid on the 2nd image. (Work by Dina Eldin.)

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Motion coherence provides redundancy for compression

MPEG “motion compensation” represents motion of 16x16 pixels blocks, NOT objects

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MPEG represents blocks that move by the motion vector

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MPEG has ‘I’, ‘P’, and ‘B’ frames

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Computing Image Flow

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Assumptions

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IMAGE

FLOW

EQUATION

1 of 2

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Image flow equation 2 of 2

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Aperture problem

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Solving flow by propagation of constraints

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Info at corner constrains the flow along both edges

Solve constraints using contraint propagation or differential equation with boundary conditions.

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Tracking several objects

Use assumptions of physics to compute multiple smooth

paths.(work of Sethi and R. Jain)

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Tracking in images over time

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General constraints from physics

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Other possible constraints

Background statistics stable Object color/texture/shape might

change slowly over frames Might have knowledge of objects

under survielance Objects appear/disappear at

boundary of the frame

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Sethi-Jain algorithm

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Total smoothness of m paths

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Greedy exchange algorithm

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Example data structure

Total smoothness for trajectories of Figure 9.14

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Example of domain specific tracking (Vera Bakic)

Tracking eyes and nose of PC user. System presents menu (top). User moves face to position cursor to a particular box (choice). System tracks face movement and moves cursor accordingly: user gets into feedback-control loop.

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Segmentation of videos/movies

Segment into scenes, shots, specific actions, etc.

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Types of changes in videos

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Anchor person scene at left

Street scene for news story

Scene break

From Zhang et al 1993

How do we compute the scene change?

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Histograms of frames across the scene change

Histograms at left are from anchor person frames, while histogram at bottom right is from the street frame.

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Heuristics for ignoring zooms

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American sign language example

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Example from Yang and Ahuja

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