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Optical flow is the motion of a pixel between at least two consecutive video frames and can be estimated through an end-to-end trainable convolutional neural network. To this end, large training datasets are required to improve the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Roman Seidel , André Apitzsch , Gangolf Hirtz

Optical flow estimation is essential for video processing tasks, such as restoration and action recognition. The quality of videos is constantly increasing, with current standards reaching 8K resolution. However, optical flow methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Henrique Morimitsu , Xiaobin Zhu , Roberto M. Cesar , Xiangyang Ji , Xu-Cheng Yin

This paper describes a fully spike-based neural network for optical flow estimation from Dynamic Vision Sensor data. A low power embedded implementation of the method which combines the Asynchronous Time-based Image Sensor with IBM's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Germain Haessig , Andrew Cassidy , Rodrigo Alvarez , Ryad Benosman , Garrick Orchard

Existing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require a fixed-size (e.g., 224x224) input image. This requirement is "artificial" and may reduce the recognition accuracy for the images or sub-images of an arbitrary size/scale. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Kaiming He , Xiangyu Zhang , Shaoqing Ren , Jian Sun

For visual estimation of optical flow, a crucial function for many vision tasks, unsupervised learning, using the supervision of view synthesis has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods, since ground-truth flow is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zitang Sun , Shin'ya Nishida , Zhengbo Luo

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment a few moving objects in a video sequence, where these objects are specified by annotation of first frame. The optical flow has been considered in many existing semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ziyang Liu , Jingmeng Liu , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

We propose a new self-supervised approach to image feature learning from motion cue. This new approach leverages recent advances in deep learning in two directions: 1) the success of training deep neural network in estimating optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Bin Ma , Shubao Liu , Yingxuan Zhi , Qi Song

Inaccurate optical flow estimates in and near occluded regions, and out-of-boundary regions are two of the current significant limitations of optical flow estimation algorithms. Recent state-of-the-art optical flow estimation algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Fisseha Admasu Ferede , Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian

Many classical and learning-based optical flow methods rely on hierarchical concepts to improve both accuracy and robustness. However, one of the currently most successful approaches -- RAFT -- hardly exploits such concepts. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Azin Jahedi , Lukas Mehl , Marc Rivinius , Andrés Bruhn

Computing optical flow is a fundamental problem in computer vision. However, deep learning-based optical flow techniques do not perform well for non-rigid movements such as those found in faces, primarily due to lack of the training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Muhannad Alkaddour , Usman Tariq , Abhinav Dhall

To correct for respiratory motion in PET imaging, an interpretable and unsupervised deep learning technique, FlowNet-PET, was constructed. The network was trained to predict the optical flow between two PET frames from different breathing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Teaghan O'Briain , Carlos Uribe , Kwang Moo Yi , Jonas Teuwen , Ioannis Sechopoulos , Magdalena Bazalova-Carter

Facial optical flow supports a wide range of tasks in facial motion analysis. However, the lack of high-resolution facial optical flow datasets has hindered progress in this area. In this paper, we introduce Splatting Rasterization Flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 JiaLin Zhang , Dong Li

Scene parsing is challenging for unrestricted open vocabulary and diverse scenes. In this paper, we exploit the capability of global context information by different-region-based context aggregation through our pyramid pooling module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Hengshuang Zhao , Jianping Shi , Xiaojuan Qi , Xiaogang Wang , Jiaya Jia

Even with the recent advances in convolutional neural networks (CNN) in various visual recognition tasks, the state-of-the-art action recognition system still relies on hand crafted motion feature such as optical flow to achieve the best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Joe Yue-Hei Ng , Jonghyun Choi , Jan Neumann , Larry S. Davis

We propose a new pipeline for optical flow computation, based on Deep Learning techniques. We suggest using a Siamese CNN to independently, and in parallel, compute the descriptors of both images. The learned descriptors are then compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 David Gadot , Lior Wolf

We propose a novel approach for optical flow estimation , targeted at large displacements with significant oc-clusions. It consists of two steps: i) dense matching by edge-preserving interpolation from a sparse set of matches; ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Jerome Revaud , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Estimating the correspondences between pixels in sequences of images is a critical first step for a myriad of tasks including vision-aided navigation (e.g., visual odometry (VO), visual-inertial odometry (VIO), and visual simultaneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-16 E. Jared Shamwell , William D. Nothwang , Donald Perlis

In this paper, we propose an effective method for fast and accurate scene parsing called Bidirectional Alignment Network (BiAlignNet). Previously, one representative work BiSeNet~\cite{bisenet} uses two different paths (Context Path and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Yanran Wu , Xiangtai Li , Chen Shi , Yunhai Tong , Yang Hua , Tao Song , Ruhui Ma , Haibing Guan

In dense foggy scenes, existing optical flow methods are erroneous. This is due to the degradation caused by dense fog particles that break the optical flow basic assumptions such as brightness and gradient constancy. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wending Yan , Aashish Sharma , Robby T. Tan

Gathering data and identifying events in various traffic situations remains an essential challenge for the systematic evaluation of a perception system's performance. Analyzing large-scale, typically unstructured, multi-modal, time series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tayssir Bouraffa , Elias Kjellberg Carlson , Erik Wessman , Ali Nouri , Pierre Lamart , Christian Berger