Camera Motion Detection Through Frame Splitting and Combination of Region-Based Motion Signals

Abstract

Most of the existing approaches for camera motion detection are based on optical flow analysis and the use of the affine motion model. However, these methods are computationally expensive due to the cost of optical flow estimation and may be inefficient in the presence of moving objects whose motion is independent of the camera motion. We present an effective approach to detect camera motions by considering four trapezoidal regions in each frame and computing the horizontal and vertical translations of those regions. Then, simple decision rules based on the translations of the regions are employed in order to decide for the existence and the type of camera motion in each frame. In this way, three signals are constructed (pan, tilt, zoom) which are subsequently filtered to improve the robustness of the method. Comparative experiments on a variety of videos indicate that our method efficiently detects any type of camera motion (pan, tilt, zoom), even in the case where moving objects exist in the video sequence.