MOTION DETECTION APPLIED TO MICROTECTONICS MODELLING

Abstract

The foremost by-product of this paper is the automation of geological undertakings, for instance, dealing with exceptionally thin sections of rocks that were subjected to deformation alongside finite steps of time which can be recorded in video for later analysis using image processing and numerical analysis procedures. Markers are used in order to trace gradients of deformation over a sample and study other mechanical properties. Image processing and video sequence analysis can be a very powerful investigation tool and this paper shows preliminary results from its use on microtectonics. The proposed algorithm is a combination of two well-known approaches: feature extraction and block matching.