2.1. The development of robust motion estimation methods
The first goal will be achieved by introduction a new image feature to conventional techniques for motion estimation. There will be three methods to be developed. They are
(a) A robust motion estimation technique using image gradients
(b) A robust motion estimation technique using gradient structure tensors
(c) A robust motion estimation technique using image intensities
2.2 The real-time implementation of the developed methods
As the second goal, we aim at the real-time implementation of these methods for practical testing, demonstration, and educational purposes. To reduce the time for programming, we plan to use National Instruments (NI) LabView as our development platform. In this environment, graphical programming is employed in which we design our own algorithm by drawing a block diagram using a PC like a CAD workstation, eliminating the syntactical details of other programming languages like C and MATLAB that use a text based programming approach. A separate library package, NI's Vision Development Module, is a collection of hundreds of image processing and vision functions for programmers using LabView. By integrating this module into the LabVIEW environment, we expect to minimize our real-time implementation workload. For more information on NI's LabView and Vision Development Module, please see References [7] [9] in the next section.
