An analysis of physics-based optical flow

Bo Wang, Zemin Cai, Lixin Shen, Tianshu Liu

Abstract: A variational solution of the physics-based optical flow equation is studied for extraction of high-resolution velocity fields from flow visualization images. The solution to preserve discontinuities in a fluid velocity field is mathematically justified. The uniqueness of the solution and the convergence of a successive approximation sequence are proven. A numerical algorithm is developed and examined through numerical experiments.

Journal: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 276 (2015), 62–80.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2014.08.020