Multi-frame Motion Segmentation by Combining Two-Frame Results

Abstract

In this paper we consider the motion segmentation problem on sparse and unstructured datasets involving rigid motions, motivated by multibody structure from motion. In particular, we assume only two-frame correspondences as input without prior knowledge about trajectories. Inspired by the success of synchronization methods, we address this problem by introducing a two-stage approach: first, motion segmentation is addressed on image pairs independently; then, two-frame results are combined in a robust way to compute the final multi-frame segmentation. Our synthetic and real experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach is very effective in reducing the errors among two-frame results and it can cope with a large amount of mismatches. Moreover, our method can be profitably used to build a multibody structure from motion pipeline.