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Using pixels to see direction of movement

What is optic flow and how is it calculated? Presented by Professor Andy French.

If rather than detecting new motion or objects entering the image frame we are interested in how existing objects are moving, we can calculate something called optic flow.

Optic flows shows the magnitude and direction of movement of different regions within the image. This video shows how optic flow is calculated and visualised.

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