Temporal texture characterization : a review

A large class of objects commonly experienced in a real world scenario exhibits characteristic motion with certain form of regularities. Contemporary literature coined the term “temporal texture” 1 to identify image sequences of such motion patterns that exhibit spatiotemporal regularity. The study of temporal textures dates back to the early nineties. Many researchers in the computer vision community have formulated techniques to analyse temporal textures. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive literature survey of the existing temporal texture characterization techniques.