Quaternionic Representation of the Riesz Pyramid for Video Magnification

Recently, we presented a new image pyramid, called the Riesz pyramid, that uses the Riesz transform to manipulate the phase in non-oriented sub-bands of an image sequence to produce real-time motion-magnified videos. In this report we give a quaternionic formulation of the Riesz pyramid, and show ho...

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Main Authors: Wadhwa, Neal, Rubinstein, Michael, Durand, Fredo, Freeman, William T.
Other Authors: William Freeman
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86300
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Summary:Recently, we presented a new image pyramid, called the Riesz pyramid, that uses the Riesz transform to manipulate the phase in non-oriented sub-bands of an image sequence to produce real-time motion-magnified videos. In this report we give a quaternionic formulation of the Riesz pyramid, and show how several seemingly heuristic choices in how to use the Riesz transform for phase-based video magnification fall out of this formulation in a natural and principled way. We intend this report to accompany the original paper on the Riesz pyramid for video magnification.