Robust Optic Flow Computation

This paper formulates the optic flow problem as a set of over-determined simultaneous linear equations. It then introduces and studies two new robust optic flow methods. The first technique is based on using the Least Median of Squares (LMedS) to detect the outliers. Then, the inlier group is solved using the least square technique. The second method employs a new robust statistical method named the Least Median of Squares Orthogonal Distances (LMSOD) to identify the outliers and then uses total least squares to solve the optic flow problem. The performance of both methods are studied by experiments on synthetic and real image sequences. These methods outperform other published methods both in accuracy and robustness.