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Optical flow captures the motion of pixels in an image sequence over time, providing information about movement, depth, and environmental structure. Flying insects utilize this information to navigate and avoid obstacles, allowing them to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yu Hu , Yuang Zhang , Yunlong Song , Yang Deng , Feng Yu , Linzuo Zhang , Weiyao Lin , Danping Zou , Wenxian Yu

Estimating 3D poses from a monocular video is still a challenging task, despite the significant progress that has been made in recent years. Generally, the performance of existing methods drops when the target person is too small/large, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Yu Cheng , Bo Yang , Bo Wang , Robby T. Tan

Monocular visual odometry (VO) is a fundamental computer vision problem with applications in autonomous navigation, augmented reality and more. While deep learning-based methods have recently shown superior accuracy compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Dominik Kuczkowski , Laura Ruotsalainen

The estimation of optical flow and 6-DoF ego-motion, two fundamental tasks in 3D vision, has typically been addressed independently. For neuromorphic vision (e.g., event cameras), however, the lack of robust data association makes solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Wenpu Li , Bangyan Liao , Yi Zhou , Qi Xu , Pian Wan , Peidong Liu

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

We present a method for fast 3D reconstruction and real-time rendering of dynamic humans from monocular videos with accompanying parametric body fits. Our method can reconstruct a dynamic human in less than 3h using a single GPU, compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Ignacio Rocco , Iurii Makarov , Filippos Kokkinos , David Novotny , Benjamin Graham , Natalia Neverova , Andrea Vedaldi

Optical flow is a method aimed at predicting the movement velocity of any pixel in the image and is used in medicine and biology to estimate flow of particles in organs or organelles. However, a precise optical flow measurement requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

Accurate estimation of 3D human motion from monocular video requires modeling both kinematics (body motion without physical forces) and dynamics (motion with physical forces). To demonstrate this, we present SimPoE, a Simulation-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Ye Yuan , Shih-En Wei , Tomas Simon , Kris Kitani , Jason Saragih

We introduce DiffPhy, a differentiable physics-based model for articulated 3d human motion reconstruction from video. Applications of physics-based reasoning in human motion analysis have so far been limited, both by the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Erik Gärtner , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Erwin Coumans , Cristian Sminchisescu

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

Existing 3D scene flow estimation methods provide the 3D geometry and 3D motion of a scene and gain a lot of interest, for example in the context of autonomous driving. These methods are traditionally based on a temporal series of stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Fabian Brickwedde , Steffen Abraham , Rudolf Mester

This paper addresses the challenge of 3D full-body human pose estimation from a monocular image sequence. Here, two cases are considered: (i) the image locations of the human joints are provided and (ii) the image locations of joints are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Xiaowei Zhou , Menglong Zhu , Spyridon Leonardos , Kosta Derpanis , Kostas Daniilidis

Existing methods for reconstructing objects and humans from a monocular image suffer from severe mesh collisions and performance limitations for interacting occluding objects. This paper introduces a method to obtain a globally consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Sarthak Batra , Partha P. Chakrabarti , Simon Hadfield , Armin Mustafa

Videos acquired in low-light conditions often exhibit motion blur, which depends on the motion of the objects relative to the camera. This is not only visually unpleasing, but can hamper further processing. With this paper we are the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Anita Sellent , Carsten Rother , Stefan Roth

We propose an approach for reconstructing free-moving object from a monocular RGB video. Most existing methods either assume scene prior, hand pose prior, object category pose prior, or rely on local optimization with multiple sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Haixin Shi , Yinlin Hu , Daniel Koguciuk , Juan-Ting Lin , Mathieu Salzmann , David Ferstl

Imagining multiple consecutive frames given one single snapshot is challenging, since it is difficult to simultaneously predict diverse motions from a single image and faithfully generate novel frames without visual distortions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Lu Sheng , Junting Pan , Jiaming Guo , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Chen Change Loy

Most recent 6D object pose methods use 2D optical flow to refine their results. However, the general optical flow methods typically do not consider the target's 3D shape information during matching, making them less effective in 6D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yang Hai , Rui Song , Jiaojiao Li , Yinlin Hu

Parametric human models capture global pose but cannot represent the non-rigid surface dynamics of clothing and soft tissue. Generic scene flow estimates dense motion but breaks down on articulated bodies, where pixel-level supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhanbo Huang , Xiaoming Liu , Yu Kong

In this work, we pioneer Semantic Flow, a neural semantic representation of dynamic scenes from monocular videos. In contrast to previous NeRF methods that reconstruct dynamic scenes from the colors and volume densities of individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Fengrui Tian , Yueqi Duan , Angtian Wang , Jianfei Guo , Shaoyi Du

Accurate perception of the dynamic environment is a fundamental task for autonomous driving and robot systems. This paper introduces Let Occ Flow, the first self-supervised work for joint 3D occupancy and occupancy flow prediction using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yili Liu , Linzhan Mou , Xuan Yu , Chenrui Han , Sitong Mao , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang