METHOD OF DETERMINING THE DISPLACEMENT IN A PICTURE SEQUENCE, AND ARRANGEMENT AND APPLICATIONS THEREFOR

摘要

In a method and apparatus for determining, in a system having a transmitting end and a receiving end, displacements of image features occurring between successively transmitted image sequences, by the operations of: determining, at the receiving end, peak values of pixel correlation between successively transmitted image sequences; deriving representations of estimated displacement values from the peak values of pixel correlation; and producing representations of optimized displacement values by a recursion operation which includes recursively deriving a correction value and adding the correction value to an existing estimated displacement value to form a new estimated value, the correction value is derived by performing a mathematical division operation in which the dividend is a selected function of pixel values in successive image sequences and the divisor is proportional to the average of a first value resulting from crosscorrelation of successively transmitted image sequences and a second value resulting from autocorrelation of the currently received image sequence.