Moving object velocity estimation by appropriately choosing spatial frequencies in the MixeD domain

Abstract

To estimate moving objects velocity in an image sequence is useful for a variety of applications, such as computer vision and monitoring systems. An effective way is to approach it in the transform/spatiotemporal mixed domain (MixeD), but it remains a problem how to select several 2-D spatial frequency points in MixeD domain which may influence the accuracy of velocity estimation and object detection. We propose a method to approach the velocity estimation problem by automatically selecting only two appropriate points in 2-D spatial frequency domain, the selection is achieved by using the established evaluation function together with a threshold. The simulation results show that the proposed method is effective on the selection of spatial frequency points.