A study of the Yosemite sequence used as a test sequence for estimation of optical flow

Abstract

Since the publication of the comparative study done by Barron et al. on optical flow estimation, a race was started to achieve more and more accurate and dense velocity fields. For comparison a few synthetic image sequences has been used. The most complex of these is the Yosemite Flying sequence that contains both a diverging field, occlusion and multiple motions at the horizon. About 10 years ago it was suggested to remove the sky region because the correct flow used in earlier work was not found to be the real ground truth for this region. In this paper we present a study of the sky region in this test sequence, and discuss its usefulness for evaluation of optical flow estimation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.