Image Motion Analysis Using Scale Space Approximation and Simulated Annealing

Abs t r ac t . This paper addresses the problem of motion estimation in sequences of remotely sensed images of the sea. When the temporal sampling period is low the estimation of the velocity field can be done by finding the correspondence between structures detected in the images. The scale space aproximation of these structures using the wavelet multiressolution is presented. The correspondence is solved using a simulated annealing technique which assures the convergence to high quality solutions.