A new approach for the detection of motion of three-dimensional rigid bodies from two- dimensional images is presented. The approach is based on two main stages. In the first stage, the positions and velocities of feature points are detected from two-dimensional images. In the second stage, the rotation and the translation velocity of each body is detected from the positions and velocities of the set of feature points. We employ the Hough transform method in both stages. We describe the details of the second stage and the method of computation reduction in Hough transform. The effectiveness of our method is confirmed through computer experiment.

Date Published: 1 November 1991
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 1605, Visual Communications and Image Processing '91: Visual Communication, (1 November 1991); doi: 10.1117/12.50274

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1605:
Visual Communications and Image Processing '91: Visual Communication
Kou-Hu Tzou; Toshio Koga, Editor(s)