Textured motion analysis

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2005
Öztekin, Kaan
Textured motion - generally known as dynamic or temporal texture - is a popular research area for synthesis, segmentation and recognition. Dynamic texture is a spatially repetitive, time-varying visual pattern that forms an image sequence with certain temporal stationarity. In dynamic texture, the notion of self-similarity central to conventional image texture is extended to the spatiotemporal domain. Dynamic textures are typically videos of processes, such as waves, smoke, fire, a flag blowing in the wind, a moving escalator, or a walking crowd. Creation of synthetic frames is a key issue especially for movie screen industry to enrich their scenes from a white screen into a shining reality. In robotics world, for example an autonomous vehicle must decide what is traversable terrain (e.g. grass) and what is not (e.g. water). This problem can be addressed by classifying portions of the image into a number of categories, for instance grass, dirt, bushes or water. If these parts are identifiable, then segmentation and recognition of these textures results with an efficient path planning for the autonomous vehicle. In this thesis, we aimed to characterize these textured motions like mentioned above. We tried to implement several known techniques and compared the results.

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K. Öztekin, “Textured motion analysis,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.