"Under optic flow in computer vision we understand the displacement field between two consecutive frames of a given image sequence. The computation of the optic flow is one of the central problems in that area. In order to solve it, some constancy assumption has to be imposed. Most of the algorithms developed so-far try to compute the optic flow between the frames of a gray-valued image sequence and make use of the gray-value constancy assumption.
Our goal, however, is to compute the optic flow in the case a color image sequence. To do this we use variational methods, based on the motion tensor notation. The crucial question here is what kind of constancy assumptions are best suited to solve the problem. Therefore we are searching for new color constancy assumptions that will best solve this instance of the optic-flow problem."