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This paper presents a high speed implementation of an optical flow algorithm which computes planar velocity fields in an experimental flow. Real-time computation of the flow velocity field allows the experimentalist to have instantaneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-26 N. Gautier , J-L. Aider

Previous dominant methods for scene flow estimation focus mainly on input from two consecutive frames, neglecting valuable information in the temporal domain. While recent trends shift towards multi-frame reasoning, they suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yushan Zhang , Yixi Cai , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

Despite recent advances, estimating optical flow remains a challenging problem in the presence of illumination change, large occlusions or fast movement. In this paper, we propose a novel optical flow estimation framework which can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Inchul Choi , Arunava Banerjee

In recent years, the LiDAR images, as a 2D compact representation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, are widely applied in various tasks, e.g., 3D semantic segmentation, LiDAR point cloud compression (PCC). Among these works, the optical flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Xuezhou Guo , Xuhu Lin , Lili Zhao , Zezhi Zhu , Jianwen Chen

Occlusions between consecutive frames have long posed a significant challenge in optical flow estimation. The inherent ambiguity introduced by occlusions directly violates the brightness constancy constraint and considerably hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shangkun Sun , Jiaming Liu , Thomas H. Li , Huaxia Li , Guoqing Liu , Wei Gao

Saliency maps are used to understand human attention and visual fixation. However, while very well established for static images, there is no general agreement on how to compute a saliency map of dynamic scenes. In this paper we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Aniello Raffaele Patrone , Christian Valuch , Ulrich Ansorge , Otmar Scherzer

This paper is the first to review the scene flow estimation field, which analyzes and compares methods, technical challenges, evaluation methodologies and performance of scene flow estimation. Existing algorithms are categorized in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Zike Yan , Xuezhi Xiang

Event cameras, by virtue of their working principle, directly encode motion within a scene. Many learning-based and model-based methods exist that estimate event-based optical flow, however the temporally dense yet spatially sparse nature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi

Capsule networks (CapsNets) have recently shown promise to excel in most computer vision tasks, especially pertaining to scene understanding. In this paper, we explore CapsNet's capabilities in optical flow estimation, a task at which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Vinoj Jayasundara , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando

Event cameras rely on motion to obtain information about scene appearance. This means that appearance and motion are inherently linked: either both are present and recorded in the event data, or neither is captured. Previous works treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuang Guo , Friedhelm Hamann , Guillermo Gallego

We introduce VideoFlow, a novel optical flow estimation framework for videos. In contrast to previous methods that learn to estimate optical flow from two frames, VideoFlow concurrently estimates bi-directional optical flows for multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiaoyu Shi , Zhaoyang Huang , Weikang Bian , Dasong Li , Manyuan Zhang , Ka Chun Cheung , Simon See , Hongwei Qin , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

This paper presents a novel dense optical-flow algorithm to solve the monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem for ground or aerial robots. Dense optical flow can effectively provide the ego-motion of the vehicle while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yonhon Ng , Hongdong Li , Jonghyuk Kim

While text-to-video diffusion models have made significant strides, many still face challenges in generating videos with temporal consistency. Within diffusion frameworks, guidance techniques have proven effective in enhancing output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyelin Nam , Jaemin Kim , Dohun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

6D object pose estimation is crucial for robotic perception and precise manipulation. Occlusion and incomplete object visibility are common challenges in this task, but existing pose refinement methods often struggle to handle these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xin Liu , Shibei Xue , Dezong Zhao , Shan Ma , Min Jiang

Learning-based optical flow estimation has been dominated with the pipeline of cost volume with convolutions for flow regression, which is inherently limited to local correlations and thus is hard to address the long-standing challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Dacheng Tao

Optical flow estimation with occlusion or large displacement is a problematic challenge due to the lost of corresponding pixels between consecutive frames. In this paper, we discover that the lost information is related to a large quantity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yang Jiao , Guangming Shi , Trac D. Tran

In recent years, many deep learning-based methods have been proposed to tackle the problem of optical flow estimation and achieved promising results. However, they hardly consider that most videos are compressed and thus ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Shili Zhou , Xuhao Jiang , Weimin Tan , Ruian He , Bo Yan

Key-point-based scene understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving applications. At the same time, optical flow plays an important role in many vision tasks. However, due to the implicit bias of equal attention on all points, classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhonghua Yi , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Qi Jiang , Yaozu Ye , Ze Wang , Huajian Ni , Kaiwei Wang

We reframe scene flow as the task of estimating a continuous space-time ODE that describes motion for an entire observation sequence, represented with a neural prior. Our method, EulerFlow, optimizes this neural prior estimate against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kyle Vedder , Neehar Peri , Ishan Khatri , Siyi Li , Eric Eaton , Mehmet Kocamaz , Yue Wang , Zhiding Yu , Deva Ramanan , Joachim Pehserl

Particle flow processing is widely employed across various industrial applications and technologies. Due to the complex interactions between particles and fluids, designing effective devices for particle flow processing is challenging. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Chih-Hsiang Chen , Kentaro Yaji