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

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

This paper presents a general framework to build fast and accurate algorithms for video enhancement tasks such as super-resolution, deblurring, and denoising. Essential to our framework is the realization that the accuracy, rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yu Feng , Patrick Hansen , Paul N. Whatmough , Guoyu Lu , Yuhao Zhu

Occlusions pose a significant challenge to optical flow algorithms that rely on local evidences. We consider an occluded point to be one that is imaged in the first frame but not in the next, a slight overloading of the standard definition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Shihao Jiang , Dylan Campbell , Yao Lu , Hongdong Li , Richard Hartley

Optical flow is the pattern of apparent motion of objects in a scene. The computation of optical flow is a critical component in numerous computer vision tasks such as object detection, visual object tracking, and activity recognition.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Muhammad Wasim Nawaz , Abdesselam Bouzerdoum , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Ghulam Abbas , Faizan Rashid

Rain streaks bring complicated pixel intensity changes and additional gradients, greatly obstructing the extraction of image features from background. This causes serious performance degradation in feature-based applications. Thus, it is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Wei Wu , Hao Chang , Zhu Li

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is a crucial component in various applications, including localization and mapping in robotics, object tracking, and activity recognition in computer vision. While recent learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiyong Zhang , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

Depth information is useful for many applications. Active depth sensors are appealing because they obtain dense and accurate depth maps. However, due to issues that range from power constraints to multi-sensor interference, these sensors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 James Noraky , Vivienne Sze

We present an effective method for the matching of multimodal images. Accurate image matching is the basis of various applications, such as image registration and structure from motion. Conventional matching methods fail when handling noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Zhongli Fan , Li Zhang , Yuxuan Liu

Point clouds are naturally sparse, while image pixels are dense. The inconsistency limits feature fusion from both modalities for point-wise scene flow estimation. Previous methods rarely predict scene flow from the entire point clouds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Chensheng Peng , Guangming Wang , Xian Wan Lo , Xinrui Wu , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan , Hesheng Wang

We present a method for estimating dense continuous-time optical flow from event data. Traditional dense optical flow methods compute the pixel displacement between two images. Due to missing information, these approaches cannot recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mathias Gehrig , Manasi Muglikar , Davide Scaramuzza

We present an optical flow estimation approach that operates on the full four-dimensional cost volume. This direct approach shares the structural benefits of leading stereo matching pipelines, which are known to yield high accuracy. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Jia Xu , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun

We introduce a novel approach for depth estimation using images obtained from monocular structured light systems. In contrast to many existing methods that depend on image matching, our technique employs a density voxel grid to represent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhuohang Yu , Kai Wang , Kun Huang , Juyong Zhang

Dense pixel matching is required for many computer vision algorithms such as disparity, optical flow or scene flow estimation. Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) have proven to be a suitable feature extractor for CNN-based dense matching tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Rishav , René Schuster , Ramy Battrawy , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Dataset distillation compresses large datasets into compact synthetic sets with comparable performance in training models. Despite recent progress on diffusion-based distillation, this type of method typically depends on heuristic guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xuhui Li , Zhengquan Luo , Xiwei Liu , Yongqiang Yu , Zhiqiang Xu

Occlusions hinder point cloud frame alignment in LiDAR data, a challenge inadequately addressed by scene flow models tested mainly on occlusion-free datasets. Attempts to integrate occlusion handling within networks often suffer accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jingze Chen , Junfeng Yao , Qiqin Lin , Lei Li

We present CompactFlowNet, the first real-time mobile neural network for optical flow prediction, which involves determining the displacement of each pixel in an initial frame relative to the corresponding pixel in a subsequent frame.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Andrei Znobishchev , Valerii Filev , Oleg Kudashev , Nikita Orlov , Humphrey Shi

Feature pyramid networks have been widely adopted in the object detection literature to improve feature representations for better handling of variations in scale. In this paper, we present Feature Pyramid Grids (FPG), a deep multi-pathway…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Kai Chen , Yuhang Cao , Chen Change Loy , Dahua Lin , Christoph Feichtenhofer

Recent advances in generative modeling have demonstrated strong promise for high-quality point cloud upsampling. In this work, we present PUFM++, an enhanced flow-matching framework for reconstructing dense and accurate point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhi-Song Liu , Chenhang He , Roland Maier , Andreas Rupp

State-of-the-art neural network models for optical flow estimation require a dense correlation volume at high resolutions for representing per-pixel displacement. Although the dense correlation volume is informative for accurate estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shihao Jiang , Yao Lu , Hongdong Li , Richard Hartley