Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica

@@ABSTRACTS Motion Estimation and Compensation Based on Trifocal Tensor and BMA.WANG Yang-li, WU Cheng-ke(School of Information Engineering, Xidian University, Xi′an 710071, China).Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica(ISSN 1000-6893),Vol.22,no.2,Mar.2001,P117-120. 10 refs.in Chinese. To overcome some drawbacks of the block matching algorithm (BMA), which can not accurately describe object rotation, camera panning and zooming, this paper introduces the trilinear constraint and trifocal-tensor-based pixel transfer used in computer vision for motion estimation and compensation. In this method, the trifocal tensor is first estimated by an algorithm based on projection matrix, corresponding relations between two of three images are then determined by BMA and represented with block-based motion vectors, and finally, motion estimation and compensation are carried out by trifocal transferring. As it is not accurate to approximate the dense correspondence between two of the three views by the above block-based motion vectors, using trifocal transferring only will not yield good compensation results. To solve this problem, the paper further puts forward a motion estimation method combining trifocal transferring with BMA. Experiments have been carried out on video sequences to compare the performance of this method with that of BMA, and the results show that this method is superior when there are scene depth variation and camera translation.