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Normalizing flows are a class of probabilistic generative models which allow for both fast density computation and efficient sampling and are effective at modelling complex distributions like images. A drawback among current methods is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Jason J. Yu , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Marcus A. Brubaker

Making predictions of future frames is a critical challenge in autonomous driving research. Most of the existing methods for video prediction attempt to generate future frames in simple and fixed scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Henglai Wei , Xiaochuan Yin , Penghong Lin

Semantic correspondence aims to identify semantically meaningful relationships between different images and is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. It forms the foundation for numerous tasks such as 3D reconstruction, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wenyue Chong

Accurately localising object proposals is an important precondition for high detection rate for the state-of-the-art object detection frameworks. The accuracy of an object detection method has been shown highly related to the average recall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hsueh-Fu Lu , Xiaofei Du , Ping-Lin Chang

Super-resolution is an ill-posed problem, since it allows for multiple predictions for a given low-resolution image. This fundamental fact is largely ignored by state-of-the-art deep learning based approaches. These methods instead train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

The modern geographic information retrieval technology is based on quantitative models and methods. The semantic information in web documents and queries cannot be effectively represented, leading to information lost or misunderstanding so…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Yong Gao , Lei Liu , Xing Lin , Yu Liu

Super-resolution is an ill-posed problem, where a ground-truth high-resolution image represents only one possibility in the space of plausible solutions. Yet, the dominant paradigm is to employ pixel-wise losses, such as L_1, which drive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Automatic black-and-white image sequence colorization while preserving character and object identity (ID) is a complex task with significant market demand, such as in cartoon or comic series colorization. Despite advancements in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Junhao Zhuang , Xuan Ju , Zhaoyang Zhang , Yong Liu , Shiyi Zhang , Chun Yuan , Ying Shan

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we identify a critical yet overlooked limitation: these models suffer from severe diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yexiong Lin , Jia Shi , Shanshan Ye , Wanyu Wang , Yu Yao , Tongliang Liu

The ability of predicting the future is important for intelligent systems, e.g. autonomous vehicles and robots to plan early and make decisions accordingly. Future scene parsing and optical flow estimation are two key tasks that help agents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Xiaojie Jin , Huaxin Xiao , Xiaohui Shen , Jimei Yang , Zhe Lin , Yunpeng Chen , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Establishing character shape correspondence is a critical and fundamental task in computer vision and graphics, with diverse applications including re-topology, attribute transfer, and shape interpolation. Current dominant functional map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Haolin Liu , Xiaohang Zhan , Zizheng Yan , Zhongjin Luo , Yuxin Wen , Xiaoguang Han

Exploiting multiple modalities for semantic scene parsing has been shown to improve accuracy over the singlemodality scenario. However multimodal datasets often suffer from problems such as data misalignment and label inconsistencies, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Sarah Taghavi Namin , Mohammad Najafi , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson

This paper presents a novel method for detecting scene changes from a pair of images with a difference of camera viewpoints using a dense optical flow based change detection network. In the case that camera poses of input images are fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Ken Sakurada , Weimin Wang , Nobuo Kawaguchi , Ryosuke Nakamura

Optical flow estimation is very challenging in situations with transparent or occluded objects. In this work, we address these challenges at the task level by introducing Amodal Optical Flow, which integrates optical flow with amodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Maximilian Luz , Rohit Mohan , Ahmed Rida Sekkat , Oliver Sawade , Elmar Matthes , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada

Text-to-image diffusion models are now capable of generating images that are often indistinguishable from real images. To generate such images, these models must understand the semantics of the objects they are asked to generate. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Eric Hedlin , Gopal Sharma , Shweta Mahajan , Hossam Isack , Abhishek Kar , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi

The high demand for computer science education has led to high enrollments, with thousands of students in many introductory courses. In such large courses, it can be overwhelmingly difficult for instructors to understand class-wide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Ashley Ge Zhang , Xiaohang Tang , Steve Oney , Yan Chen

Learning with neural networks from a continuous stream of visual information presents several challenges due to the non-i.i.d. nature of the data. However, it also offers novel opportunities to develop representations that are consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Simone Marullo , Matteo Tiezzi , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci

Many real-world applications of flow-based generative models desire a diverse set of samples that cover multiple modes of the target distribution. However, the predominant approach for obtaining diverse sets is not sample-efficient, as it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Mashrur M. Morshed , Vishnu Boddeti

High-dynamic scene optical flow is a challenging task, which suffers spatial blur and temporal discontinuous motion due to large displacement in frame imaging, thus deteriorating the spatiotemporal feature of optical flow. Typically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hanyu Zhou , Haonan Wang , Haoyue Liu , Yuxing Duan , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Normalizing flows (NFs) provide exact likelihoods and deterministic invertible sampling, but have historically lagged behind diffusion models for large-scale image generation. We identify a key obstacle: NFs are required to learn a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Longtao Jiang , Jianmin Bao , Zhendong Wang , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Zhihui Li , Xiaojun Chang