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We consider a variational method to solve the optical flow problem with varying illumination. We apply an adaptive control of the regularization parameter which allows us to preserve the edges and fine features of the computed flow. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-13 Diane Gilliocq-Hirtz , Zakaria Belhachmi

In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flows for an equifocal submanifold in a symmetric space of compact type and its focal submanifolds as initial data. It is known that equifocal submanifolds of codimension greater than one in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Naoyuki Koike

Many generative models originally developed in finite-dimensional Euclidean space have functional generalizations in infinite-dimensional settings. However, the extension of rectified flow to infinite-dimensional spaces remains unexplored.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jianxin Zhang , Clayton Scott

We consider mean curvature flow of an initial surface that is the graph of a function over some domain of definition in $R^n$. If the graph is not complete then we impose a constant Dirichlet boundary condition at the boundary of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Wolfgang Maurer

Motion representation plays a vital role in human action recognition in videos. In this study, we introduce a novel compact motion representation for video action recognition, named Optical Flow guided Feature (OFF), which enables the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Wanli Ouyang , Lu Sheng , Wei Zhang

The goal of this paper is to propose two nonlinear variational models for obtaining a refined motion estimation from an image sequence. Both the proposed models can be considered as a part of a generalized framework for an accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hirak Doshi , N. Uday Kiran

We give an application of a Huisken monotonicity-type formula for the mean curvature flow in a compact smooth manifold with a Riemannian metric that evolves by a shrinking self-similar solution of the extended Ricci flow. Our investigation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-25 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Hikaru Yamamoto

In this paper, we proposed an unsupervised learning method for estimating the optical flow between video frames, especially to solve the occlusion problem. Occlusion is caused by the movement of an object or the movement of the camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Jianfeng Li , Junqiao Zhao , Tiantian Feng , Chen Ye , Lu Xiong

In a companion paper (Jonsson and Westman, Class. Quantum Grav. 23 (2006) 61), a generalization of optical geometry, assuming a non-shearing reference congruence, is discussed. Here we illustrate that this formalism can be applied to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rickard Jonsson

Underwater Salient Object Detection (USOD) faces significant challenges, including underwater image quality degradation and domain gaps. Existing methods tend to ignore the physical principles of underwater imaging or simply treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Runting Li , Shijie Lian , Hua Li , Yutong Li , Wenhui Wu , Sam Kwong

This paper deals with a challenging, frequently encountered, yet not properly investigated problem in two-frame optical flow estimation. That is, the input frames are compounds of two imaging layers -- one desired background layer of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Jiaolong Yang , Hongdong Li , Yuchao Dai , Robby T. Tan

Various research studies indicate that action recognition performance highly depends on the types of motions being extracted and how accurate the human actions are represented. In this paper, we investigate different optical flow, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Lei Wang , Piotr Koniusz

Flows on surfaces are one of the most fundamental and classical objects in dynamical systems, and are studied from various areas (e.g. integrable systems, differential equations, fluid mechanics). Though hyperbolic flows and recurrent flows…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Tomoo Yokoyama

We propose a method to interactively control the animation of fluid elements in still images to generate cinemagraphs. Specifically, we focus on the animation of fluid elements like water, smoke, fire, which have the properties of repeating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Aniruddha Mahapatra , Kuldeep Kulkarni

We consider fixed boundary flow with canonical interpretability as principal components extended on non-linear Riemannian manifolds. We aim to find a flow with fixed starting and ending points for noisy multivariate data sets lying on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Zhigang Yao , Yuqing Xia , Zengyan Fan

We obtain Harnack estimates for a class of curvature flows in Riemannian manifolds of constant non-negative sectional curvature as well as in the Lorentzian Minkowski and de Sitter spaces. Furthermore, we prove a Harnack estimate with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki , Julian Scheuer

Video deblurring is a challenging problem as the blur is complex and usually caused by the combination of camera shakes, object motions, and depth variations. Optical flow can be used for kernel estimation since it predicts motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Wenqi Ren , Jinshan Pan , Xiaochun Cao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Optical flow estimation is one of the most studied problems in computer vision, yet recent benchmark datasets continue to reveal problem areas of today's approaches. Occlusions have remained one of the key challenges. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Optical flow estimation has made great progress, but usually suffers from degradation under adverse weather. Although semi/full-supervised methods have made good attempts, the domain shift between the synthetic and real adverse weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Hanyu Zhou , Yi Chang , Gang Chen , Luxin Yan

We consider the evolution of an incompressible two-dimensional perfect fluid as the boundary of its domain is deformed in a prescribed fashion. The flow is taken to be initially steady, and the boundary deformation is assumed to be slow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Vanneste , D. Wirosoetisno