2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. - September 16-19, 2007

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Paper:MP-P7.8
Session:Motion Detection and Estimation II
Time:Monday, September 17, 14:30 - 17:10
Presentation: Poster
Title: MOTION ESTIMATION USING A JOINT OPTIMISATION OF THE MOTION VECTOR FIELD AND A SUPER-RESOLUTION REFERENCE IMAGE
Authors: Christian Debes; Technische Universität Darmstadt 
 Thomas Wedi; Panasonic R&D Center Germany 
 Christopher Brown; Technische Universität Darmstadt 
 Abdelhak Zoubir; Technische Universität Darmstadt 
Abstract: In many situations, interdependency between motion estimation and other estimation tasks is observable. This is for instance true in the area of Super-Resolution (SR). In order to successfully reconstruct a SR image, accurate motion vector fields are needed. On the other hand, one can only get accurate (subpixel) motion vectors, if there exist highly accurate higher-resolution reference images. Neglecting this interdependency may lead to poor estimation results - for motion estimation as well as for the SR image. To address this problem, a new motion estimation scheme is presented that jointly optimises the motion vector field and a SR reference image. For this purpose and in order to attenuate aliasing and noise, which deteriorate the motion estimation, an observation model for the image acquisition process is applied and a Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) optimisation is performed, using Markov Random Field image models for regularisation. Results show that the new motion estimator provides more accurate motion vector fields than classical block motion estimation techniques. The joint optimisation scheme yields an estimate of the motion vector field as well as a SR image.



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