Dynamic Visual Motion Estimation

Visual motion is the projection of scene movements on a visual sensor. It is a rich source of information for the analysis of a visual scene. Especially for dynamic vision systems the estimation of visual motion is important because it allows to deduce the motion of objects as well as the self-motion of the system relative to the environment. Therefore, visual motion serves as a basic information for navigation and exploration tasks, like obstacle avoidance, object tracking or visual scene decomposition into static and moving parts. In this book chapter we present in in-depth analysis of continuous, dynamic motion estimation methods.