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A good optical flow estimation is crucial in many video analysis and restoration algorithms employed in application fields like media industry, industrial inspection and automotive. In this work, we investigate how well optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Hannes Fassold

Current benchmarks for optical flow algorithms evaluate the estimation quality by comparing their predicted flow field with the ground truth, and additionally may compare interpolated frames, based on these predictions, with the correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Hui Men , Hanhe Lin , Vlad Hosu , Daniel Maurer , Andres Bruhn , Dietmar Saupe

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

We propose a large displacement optical flow method that introduces a new strategy to compute a good local minimum of any optical flow energy functional. The method requires a given set of discrete matches, which can be extremely sparse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Roberto P. Palomares , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Coloma Ballester , Gloria Haro

Object tracking is a hot topic in computer vision. Thanks to the booming of the very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing techniques, it is now possible to track targets of interests in satellite videos. However, since the targets in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Bo Du , Shihan Cai , Chen Wu , Liangpei Zhang , Dacheng Tao

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Recent optical flow methods focus on training deep networks to approach the problem. However, the training data used by them does not cover the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Anurag Ranjan , David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Siyu Tang , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

Both optical flow and stereo disparities are image matches and can therefore benefit from joint training. Depth and 3D motion provide geometric rather than photometric information and can further improve optical flow. Accordingly, we design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuai Yuan , Carlo Tomasi

Optical flow is a powerful tool for the study and analysis of motion in a sequence of images. In this article we study a Horn-Schunck type spatio-temporal regularization functional for image sequences that have a non-Euclidean, time varying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Martin Bauer , Markus Grasmair , Clemens Kirisits

Extracting optical flow from videos remains a core computer vision problem. Motivated by the recent success of large general-purpose models, we ask whether frozen self-supervised video models trained only to predict future frames can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Seungwoo Kim , Khai Loong Aw , Klemen Kotar , Cristobal Eyzaguirre , Wanhee Lee , Yunong Liu , Jared Watrous , Stefan Stojanov , Juan Carlos Niebles , Jiajun Wu , Daniel L. K. Yamins

In this paper, we propose an algorithm to interpolate between a pair of images of a dynamic scene. While in the past years significant progress in frame interpolation has been made, current approaches are not able to handle images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Pedro Figueirêdo , Avinash Paliwal , Nima Khademi Kalantari

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Recent direct-regression methods using deep neural networks achieve remarkable performance improvement. However, they do not explicitly capture long-term motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Shiyu Zhao , Long Zhao , Zhixing Zhang , Enyu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

We extend the concept of optical flow to a dynamic non-Euclidean setting. Optical flow is traditionally computed from a sequence of flat images. It is the purpose of this paper to introduce variational motion estimation for images that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Clemens Kirisits , Lukas F. Lang , Otmar Scherzer

Scene flow estimation, which extracts point-wise motion between scenes, is becoming a crucial task in many computer vision tasks. However, all of the existing estimation methods utilize only the unidirectional features, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Wencan Cheng , Jong Hwan Ko

This work presents a 5D concept to optimizing non-Newtonian fluid flows through a simplified Carreau flow model. We solve the optimization problem by approximating the solution of the KKT System with fully space-time finite element methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 S. Beuchler , B. Endtmayer , U. Langer , A. Schafelner , T. Wick

Tracking motions of humans or objects in the surroundings of the robot is essential to improve safe robot motions and reactions. In this work, we present an approach for scene flow estimation from low-density and noisy point clouds acquired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jack Sander , Giammarco Caroleo , Alessandro Albini , Perla Maiolino

Rapid and low power computation of optical flow (OF) is potentially useful in robotics. The dynamic vision sensor (DVS) event camera produces quick and sparse output, and has high dynamic range, but conventional OF algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Min Liu , Tobi Delbruck

We propose a light-weight video frame interpolation algorithm. Our key innovation is an instance-level supervision that allows information to be learned from the high-resolution version of similar objects. Our experiment shows that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Liangzhe Yuan , Yibo Chen , Hantian Liu , Tao Kong , Jianbo Shi

This paper presents a simple, self-supervised method for magnifying subtle motions in video: given an input video and a magnification factor, we manipulate the video such that its new optical flow is scaled by the desired amount. To train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhaoying Pan , Daniel Geng , Andrew Owens

We present a self-supervised approach to estimate flow in camera image and top-view grid map sequences using fully convolutional neural networks in the domain of automated driving. We extend existing approaches for self-supervised optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Sascha Wirges , Johannes Gräter , Qiuhao Zhang , Christoph Stiller

We introduce a simple and efficient numerical method to compute mean curvature flow with obstacles. The method augments the Merrimam-Bence-Osher scheme with a pointwise update that enforces the constraint and therefore retains the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Fabius Krämer , Tim Laux