optical flow

collocation in English

meaningsofopticalandflow

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optical
adjective
uk
/ˈɒp.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈɑːp.tɪ.kəl/
relating to light or the ability ...
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flow
noun
uk
/fləʊ/us
/floʊ/
the movement of something in ...
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(Definition ofopticalandflowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Some dimensions do coincide with "real" perceptual and response features, such as spatial localisation, movement direction, andopticalflow.
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In short, by actively rotating the eye, the observer can recover the ambientopticalflowfield from image motion.
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Because we have frontal eyes, our field of view is restricted to a small portion of theopticalflow.
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However, when an observer looks around, sampling different portions of the ambientopticalflow, the image pattern on the retina (retinal flow) changes.
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Direction of self-motion is perceived fromopticalflow.
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Based on the arguments presented here, active rotation of the eyes is essential for extracting the self-movement information contained inopticalflow.
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Theopticalflowmethods currently under investigation for this purpose are far more computationally intensive and less robust than the path planner and remain the major hurdle to be overcome.
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I present a case in which only with the active sampling of the ambientopticalflowfield can observers extract the requisite information for the control of locomotion.
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Height is determined from the speed of the craft and measuring ofopticalflow.
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The use of velocity fields and anopticalflowallows us to deform the image in a sequence of small steps and the mapping is known to be a diffeomorphism.
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Motion stereo andopticalflowtechniques are used to update a map of the environment.
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Perception of circular heading fromopticalflow.
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Wertheim points out that when exposed toopticalflowrotating around an axis parallel to earth gravity, experimental participants experience an illusion that they are rotating relative to the earth.
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He studied the concept ofopticalflow(later published as part of his theory of affordance).
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In some cases the processing circuitry may be implemented using analog or mixed-signal circuits to enable fastopticalflowcomputation using minimal current consumption.
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One configuration is an image sensor chip connected to a processor programmed to run anopticalflowalgorithm.
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This is known as the "aperture problem" of theopticalflowalgorithms.
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Orientation-optimal derivative kernels drastically reduce systematic estimation errors inopticalflowestimation.
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He introducedopticalflowtechniques for the benefit of obtaining dynamic information from medical images, with the goal of improving heart diseases diagnostics.
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The rotation is detected as visually as a rotation of environment termedopticalflow.
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