Jerk and High-Order Motion in Computer Images’ Streams

It is well known that velocity measures the change in position over time, acceleration is the change of velocity, and the term of measuring the change of acceleration is Jerk (Schot,1978; Eager et al., 2016). It is usually used to analyse chaotic dynamical systems (Eichhorn et al., 1998). Chapter 3 introduced the algorithms that separating acceleration from complex motion, it is also worth investigating the higher-orders of motion. Examples of synthetic images show that higher-order flow gives a different perspective from acceleration, and Jerk and Snap fields allow more possibilities of analysing complex motion fields in computer vision.