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In recent years, the LiDAR images, as a 2D compact representation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, are widely applied in various tasks, e.g., 3D semantic segmentation, LiDAR point cloud compression (PCC). Among these works, the optical flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Xuezhou Guo , Xuhu Lin , Lili Zhao , Zezhi Zhu , Jianwen Chen

We propose a new algorithm for color transfer between images that have perceptually similar semantic structures. We aim to achieve a more accurate color transfer that leverages semantically-meaningful dense correspondence between images. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Mingming He , Jing Liao , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Pedro V. Sander

Scene classification is a key problem in the interpretation of high-resolution remote sensing imagery. Many state-of-the-art methods, e.g. bag-of-visual-words model and its variants, the topic models as well as deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Jingwen Hu , Gui-Song Xia , Fan Hu , Liangpei Zhang

Existing optical flow methods make generic, spatially homogeneous, assumptions about the spatial structure of the flow. In reality, optical flow varies across an image depending on object class. Simply put, different objects move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Deqing Sun , Varun Jampani , Michael J. Black

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

This paper deals with a challenging, frequently encountered, yet not properly investigated problem in two-frame optical flow estimation. That is, the input frames are compounds of two imaging layers -- one desired background layer of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Jiaolong Yang , Hongdong Li , Yuchao Dai , Robby T. Tan

Unconditional flow-matching trains diffusion models to transport samples from a source distribution to a target distribution by enforcing that the flows between sample pairs are unique. However, in conditional settings (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 George Stoica , Vivek Ramanujan , Xiang Fan , Ali Farhadi , Ranjay Krishna , Judy Hoffman

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Balancing policy expressiveness with the exploration-exploitation trade-off is a core challenge in online Reinforcement Learning (RL). While Stochastic Differential Equation (SDE)-based diffusion policies can represent complex, multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ting Gao , Stavros Orfanoudakis , Nan Lin , Winnie Daamen , Serge Hoogendoorn , Elvin Isufi

We present FlowDet, the first formulation of object detection using modern Conditional Flow Matching techniques. This work follows from DiffusionDet, which originally framed detection as a generative denoising problem in the bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Enis Baty , C. P. Bridges , Simon Hadfield

Learning matching costs has been shown to be critical to the success of the state-of-the-art deep stereo matching methods, in which 3D convolutions are applied on a 4D feature volume to learn a 3D cost volume. However, this mechanism has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Jianyuan Wang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai , Kaihao Zhang , Pan Ji , Hongdong Li

CNN-based optical flow estimation has attracted attention recently, mainly due to its impressively high frame rates. These networks perform well on synthetic datasets, but they are still far behind the classical methods in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Nima Sedaghat , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

Diffusion and flow matching policies have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in robotic applications by accurately capturing multimodal robot trajectory distributions. However, their computationally expensive inference, due to the…

Motion is a dominant cue in automated driving systems. Optical flow is typically computed to detect moving objects and to estimate depth using triangulation. In this paper, our motivation is to leverage the existing dense optical flow to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hazem Rashed , Senthil Yogamani , Ahmad El-Sallab , Pavel Krizek , Mohamed El-Helw

Unsupervised optical flow methods typically lack reliable uncertainty estimation, limiting their robustness and interpretability. We propose U$^{2}$Flow, the first recurrent unsupervised framework that jointly estimates optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xunpei Sun , Wenwei Lin , Yi Chang , Gang Chen

Flow cytometry is a technology that rapidly measures antigen-based markers associated to cells in a cell population. Although analysis of flow cytometry data has traditionally considered one or two markers at a time, there has been…

Applications · Statistics 2010-03-30 Gyemin Lee , William Finn , Clayton Scott

We propose a novel data augmentation approach, DistractFlow, for training optical flow estimation models by introducing realistic distractions to the input frames. Based on a mixing ratio, we combine one of the frames in the pair with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Risheek Garrepalli , Fatih Porikli

A novel, non-learning-based, saliency-aware, shape-cognizant correspondence determination technique is proposed for matching image pairs that are significantly disparate in nature. Images in the real world often exhibit high degrees of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Arun CS Kumar , Shefali Srivastava , Anirban Mukhopadhyay , Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

Continuous diffusion has been the foundation of high-fidelity, controllable, and few-step generation of many data modalities such as images. However, in language modeling, prior continuous diffusion language models (DLMs) lag behind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yuxin Chen , Chumeng Liang , Hangke Sui , Ruihan Guo , Chaoran Cheng , Jiaxuan You , Ge Liu

Flow Matching (FM) models achieve remarkable results in generative tasks. Building upon diffusion models, FM's simulation-free training paradigm enables simplicity and efficiency but introduces a train-inference gap: model outputs cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhaoyi Li , Jingtao Ding , Yong Li , Shihua Li