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On automatic selection of temporal scales in time-causal scale-space

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Algebraic Frames for the Perception-Action Cycle (AFPAC 1997)

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This paper outlines a general framework for automatic selection in temporal scale-space representations, and shows how the suggested theory applies to motion detection and motion estimation.

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  1. Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science KTH, Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory (CVAP), S-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

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Lindeberg, T. (1997). On automatic selection of temporal scales in time-causal scale-space. In: Sommer, G., Koenderink, J.J. (eds) Algebraic Frames for the Perception-Action Cycle. AFPAC 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017862

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