Low Level Moving-Feature Extraction Via Heat Flow Analogy

@inproceedings{Direkolu2006LowLM,
  title={Low Level Moving-Feature Extraction Via Heat Flow Analogy},
  author={Cem Direkoǧlu and Mark S. Nixon},
  booktitle={International Symposium on Visual Computing},
  year={2006},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:35325044}
}
E evaluation results indicate that this approach has advantages in handling noise in the temporal domain because of the averaging inherent of isotropic heat flow, and results show that this technique can detect moving edges in image sequences.
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