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The estimation of a patch position in an image is a long established but still relevant topic with many applications, e.g. pose estimation and tracking in image sequences. In most systems the position estimate needs to be fused with other estimates, and hence, covariance information is required to weight the different estimates in the right way. In this paper we address the issue with covariance estimation in the case of sum of absolute difference (SAD) block matching. First, we derive the theory for covariance estimation in the case of SAD matching. Second, we evaluate the suggested method in a virtual 3D patch tracking scenario in order to verify the performance in real-world scenarios.
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Skoglund, J., Felsberg, M. (2007). Covariance Estimation for SAD Block Matching. In: Ersbøll, B.K., Pedersen, K.S. (eds) Image Analysis. SCIA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73040-8_38
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