Using Optical Flow for Navigation

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

I am trying to get started on a project that requires a robot to extract information for navigation from 2-d video. I have done some research on the internet, and it seems like Optical Flow is my best bet for this kind of thing (note: the navigation is merely obstacle avoidance, nothing more). Can anybody recommend a library or program (or even just a well-developed example) that could get me started with this kind of thing? Most of the texts I have found have been aimed at CS majors... and I'm not one of those.

Here is a web page that describes exactly the kind of thing that I want to do:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/lpk/mars/temizer_2001/Optical_Flow/
I really just want to find out how to implement something like this so that I can move on.

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Using Optical Flow for Navigation