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Optical flow

What does “Optical flow” mean?

Optical flow: Estimating apparent motion between consecutive images or video frames.

Optical flow visual guide: Estimating apparent motion between consecutive images or video frames.
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What is an example of “Optical flow”?

A video system estimates where pixels moved as a person crossed the frame.

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Computer visionTermImage segmentationTermObject detectionTermObject trackingTermDepth estimationTerm

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