Mathematics of visual motion

This short course will address the problem of reconstructing two and three dimensional motion and shape from a video sequence. We start with a brief survey of feature extraction for tracking purposes. Notions, such as optical flow and visual velocity field are introduced. This is followed by an analytical decomposition of the mapping properties of projected three dimensional rigid body motion onto a temporal image sequence. An equally brief survey of statistical calibration techniques to produce a model of motion and shape rounds up this short course.