TY - JOUR T1 - Better flow estimation from color images JF - EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Y1 - 2007 A1 - Hui Ji A1 - Fermüller, Cornelia AB - One of the difficulties in estimating optical flow is bias. Correcting the bias using the classical techniques is very difficult. The reason is that knowledge of the error statistics is required, which usually cannot be obtained because of lack of data. In this paper, we present an approach which utilizes color information. Color images do not provide more geometric information than monochromatic images to the estimation of optic flow. They do, however, contain additional statistical information. By utilizing the technique of instrumental variables, bias from multiple noise sources can be robustly corrected without computing the parameters of the noise distribution. Experiments on synthesized and real data demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm. VL - 2007 SN - 1110-8657 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/53912 CP - 1 M3 - 10.1155/2007/53912 ER -