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Recent advances in inverse problem solving have increasingly adopted flow priors over diffusion models due to their ability to construct straight probability paths from noise to data, thereby enhancing efficiency in both training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hossein Askari , Yadan Luo , Hongfu Sun , Fred Roosta

Normalizing flows are prominent deep generative models that provide tractable probability distributions and efficient density estimation. However, they are well known to fail while detecting Out-of-Distribution (OOD) inputs as they directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Nishant Kumar , Pia Hanfeld , Michael Hecht , Michael Bussmann , Stefan Gumhold , Nico Hoffmann

Many recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) optical flow models use finite-step recurrent update operations to emulate traditional algorithms by encouraging iterative refinements toward a stable flow estimation. However, these RNNs impose large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Shaojie Bai , Zhengyang Geng , Yash Savani , J. Zico Kolter

Optical flow estimation is a classical yet challenging task in computer vision. One of the essential factors in accurately predicting optical flow is to alleviate occlusions between frames. However, it is still a thorny problem for current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shangkun Sun , Yuanqi Chen , Yu Zhu , Guodong Guo , Ge Li

We present a global optimization approach to optical flow estimation. The approach optimizes a classical optical flow objective over the full space of mappings between discrete grids. No descriptor matching is used. The highly regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

Scene flow is a description of real world motion in 3D that contains more information than optical flow. Because of its complexity there exists no applicable variant for real-time scene flow estimation in an automotive or commercial vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 René Schuster , Christian Bailer , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Flow matching casts sample generation as learning a continuous-time velocity field that transports noise to data. Existing flow matching networks typically predict each point's velocity independently, considering only its location and time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui , Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber

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

Normalizing flows have grown more popular over the last few years; however, they continue to be computationally expensive, making them difficult to be accepted into the broader machine learning community. In this paper, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Achintya Gopal

Affine correspondences have received significant attention due to their benefits in tasks like image matching and pose estimation. Existing methods for extracting affine correspondences still have many limitations in terms of performance;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Pengju Sun , Banglei Guan , Zhenbao Yu , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu , Daniel Barath

Enhancing the efficiency of high-quality image generation using Diffusion Models (DMs) is a significant challenge due to the iterative nature of the process. Flow Matching (FM) is emerging as a powerful generative modeling paradigm based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Pascal Zwick , Nils Friederich , Maximilian Beichter , Lennart Hilbert , Ralf Mikut , Oliver Bringmann

Modeling sparse and dense image matching within a unified functional correspondence model has recently attracted increasing research interest. However, existing efforts mainly focus on improving matching accuracy while ignoring its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Dongli Tan , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Xingyu Chen , Chao Chen , Ruixin Zhang , Yunhang Shen , Shouhong Ding , Rongrong Ji

Pansharpening, a pivotal task in remote sensing for fusing high-resolution panchromatic and multispectral imagery, has garnered significant research interest. Recent advancements employing diffusion models based on stochastic differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zihan Cao , Yu Zhong , Liang-Jian Deng

The optical flow of natural scenes is a combination of the motion of the observer and the independent motion of objects. Existing algorithms typically focus on either recovering motion and structure under the assumption of a purely static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Jonas Wulff , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Michael J. Black

Optical flow is a classical task that is important to the vision community. Classical optical flow estimation uses two frames as input, whilst some recent methods consider multiple frames to explicitly model long-range information. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qiaole Dong , Yanwei Fu

To apply optical flow in practice, it is often necessary to resize the input to smaller dimensions in order to reduce computational costs. However, downsizing inputs makes the estimation more challenging because objects and motion ranges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Hyunyoung Jung , Zhuo Hui , Lei Luo , Haitao Yang , Feng Liu , Sungjoo Yoo , Rakesh Ranjan , Denis Demandolx

While recent methods for motion and stereo estimation recover an unprecedented amount of details, such highly detailed structures are neither adequately reflected in the data of existing benchmarks nor their evaluation methodology. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Lukas Mehl , Jenny Schmalfuss , Azin Jahedi , Yaroslava Nalivayko , Andrés Bruhn

We propose DeFloMat (Detection with Flow Matching), a novel generative object detection framework that addresses the critical latency bottleneck of diffusion-based detectors, such as DiffusionDet, by integrating Conditional Flow Matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hansang Lee , Chaelin Lee , Nieun Seo , Joon Seok Lim , Helen Hong

Image matching is a fundamental and critical task of multisource remote sensing image applications. However, remote sensing images are susceptible to various noises. Accordingly, how to effectively achieve accurate matching in noise images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yuan Li , Dapeng Wu , Yaping Cui , Peng He , Yuan Zhang , Ruyan Wang

Unsupervised deep learning for optical flow computation has achieved promising results. Most existing deep-net based methods rely on image brightness consistency and local smoothness constraint to train the networks. Their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Yiran Zhong , Pan Ji , Jianyuan Wang , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li