English
Related papers

Related papers: Multi-way Particle Swarm Fusion

200 papers

We present SMURF, a method for unsupervised learning of optical flow that improves state of the art on all benchmarks by $36\%$ to $40\%$ (over the prior best method UFlow) and even outperforms several supervised approaches such as PWC-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Austin Stone , Daniel Maurer , Alper Ayvaci , Anelia Angelova , Rico Jonschkowski

Markov Random Fields (MRFs), a formulation widely used in generative image modeling, have long been plagued by the lack of expressive power. This issue is primarily due to the fact that conventional MRFs formulations tend to use simplistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Zhirong Wu , Dahua Lin , Xiaoou Tang

Recent advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated significant potential for representing 3D scene appearances as implicit neural networks, enabling the synthesis of high-fidelity novel views. However, the lengthy training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Tong Wang , Shuichi Kurabayashi

To date, top-performing optical flow estimation methods only take pairs of consecutive frames into account. While elegant and appealing, the idea of using more than two frames has not yet produced state-of-the-art results. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Zhile Ren , Orazio Gallo , Deqing Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Erik B. Sudderth , Jan Kautz

We proposed a fusion mechanism for the distributed cooperative map matching (CMM) within the vehicular ad-hoc network. This mechanism makes the information from each node reachable within the network by other nodes without direct…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Macheng Shen , Huajing Zhao , Jing Sun , Ding Zhao

Infrared-visible image fusion methods aim at generating fused images with good visual quality and also facilitate the performance of high-level tasks. Indeed, existing semantic-driven methods have considered semantic information injection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Liying Wang , Xiaoli Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Siwei Ma

This paper presents a robust computationally efficient real-time collision avoidance algorithm for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), namely Memory-based Wall Following-Artificial Potential Field (MWF-APF) method. The new algorithm switches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Han Wang , Muqing Cao , Hao Jiang , Lihua Xie

Monocular scene flow estimation aims to recover dense 3D motion from image sequences, yet most existing methods are limited to two-frame inputs, restricting temporal modeling and robustness to occlusions. We propose RAFT-MSF++, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xunpei Sun , Zuoxun Hou , Yi Chang , Gang Chen , Wei-Shi Zheng

Current multispectral object detection methods often retain extraneous background or noise during feature fusion, limiting perceptual performance. To address this, we propose an innovative feature fusion framework based on cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jifeng Shen , Haibo Zhan , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Xiaohui Yuan , Jun Li , Wankou Yang

Point cloud sequences are commonly used to accurately detect 3D objects in applications such as autonomous driving. Current top-performing multi-frame detectors mostly follow a Detect-and-Fuse framework, which extracts features from each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chenhang He , Ruihuang Li , Yabin Zhang , Shuai Li , Lei Zhang

This study proposes a new framework to evolve efficacious yet parsimonious neural architectures for the movement prediction of stock market indices using technical indicators as inputs. In the light of a sparse signal-to-noise ratio under…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Faizal Hafiz , Jan Broekaert , Davide La Torre , Akshya Swain

MAPF problem aims to find plans for multiple agents in an environment within a given time, such that the agents do not collide with each other or obstacles. Motivated by the execution and monitoring of these plans, we study Dynamic MAPF…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Aysu Bogatarkan , Esra Erdem

This paper presents Neural Mesh Fusion (NMF), an efficient approach for joint optimization of polygon mesh from multi-view image observations and unsupervised 3D planar-surface parsing of the scene. In contrast to implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Farhad G. Zanjani , Hong Cai , Yinhao Zhu , Leyla Mirvakhabova , Fatih Porikli

Coverage motion planning is essential to a wide range of robotic tasks. Unlike conventional motion planning problems, which reason over temporal sequences of states, coverage motion planning requires reasoning over the spatial distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Max M. Sun , Jueun Kwon , Todd Murphey

A variety of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) methods have recently achieved remarkable success in high render speed. However, current accelerating methods are specialized and incompatible with various implicit methods, preventing real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Xinyu Gao , Ziyi Yang , Yunlu Zhao , Yuxiang Sun , Xiaogang Jin , Changqing Zou

A swarm algorithm framework (SWAF), realized by agent-based modeling, is presented to solve numerical optimization problems. Each agent is a bare bones cognitive architecture, which learns knowledge by appropriately deploying a set of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xiao-Feng Xie , Wen-Jun Zhang

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) remains a critical problem in robotics and autonomous systems, where agents must navigate shared spaces efficiently while avoiding conflicts. Traditional centralized algorithms with global information provide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bharath Muppasani , Ritirupa Dey , Biplav Srivastava , Vignesh Narayanan

While NeRF has shown great success for neural reconstruction and rendering, its limited MLP capacity and long per-scene optimization times make it challenging to model large-scale indoor scenes. In contrast, classical 3D reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xiaoshuai Zhang , Sai Bi , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Hao Su , Zexiang Xu

Iterative generative models such as Flow Matching and Diffusion models have demonstrated strong test-time scaling behavior, where additional inference computation can improve generation quality. In contrast, Drift Models offer efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Lin Zhao , Tianyang Wang , Ferdinando Fioretto , Yanning Shen

In many distributed learning problems, the heterogeneous loading of computing machines may harm the overall performance of synchronous strategies. In this paper, we propose an effective asynchronous distributed framework for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Bikash Joshi , Franck Iutzeler , Massih-Reza Amini