Is matlab's optical flow object dense or sparse?

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In the description of the vision.OpticalFlow object it states:
'The OpticalFlow System object™ estimates object velocities from one image or video frame to another. It uses either the Horn-Schunck or the Lucas-Kanade method.'
Im wondering if this computes the optical flow for each pixel in the frames (i.e. dense) or does it use sparse pixels (like a grid of random pixels throughout the frame)
Thank you!

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Dima Lisin
Dima Lisin on 22 Sep 2015
It computes dense optical flow for every pixel. If you have the latest version (R2015b), please try the new optical flow classes: opticalFlowFarneback, opticalFlowHS, opticalFlowLK, and opticalFlowLKDoG.
For sparse optical flow, see vision.PointTracker.

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