On Transparent Motion Computation

We extend the principle of phase-based techniques for measuring optical flow and binocular disparity to multiple motion estimation. We analyse multiple optical flows by estimating phase gradients (instantaneous frequencies) from a set of independent bandpass quadrature filter pairs. Our approach is similar to that of Shizawa and Mase [22], in which nth-order differential operators are required to compute n simultaneous velocity estimates. The approach presented here only requires a set of band-pass niters and their first derivatives.