Barron, J.L., Fleet, D.J., and Beauchemin, S.
Performance of optical flow techniques.
International Journal of Computer Vision, 12(1):43-77, 1994

ABSTRACT
While different optical flow techniques continue to appear, there has been a lack of quantitative evaluation of existing methods. For a common set of real and synthetic image sequences, we report the results of several regularly cited optical flow techniques, including instances of differential, matching, energy-based and phase-based methods. Our comparisons are primarily empirical, and concentrate on the accuracy, reliability and density of the velocity measurements; they show that performance can differ significantly among the techniques we implemented.
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