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Establishing dense correspondences between a pair of images is an important and general problem. However, dense flow estimation is often inaccurate in the case of large displacements or homogeneous regions. For most applications and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Prune Truong , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Optical flow estimation in the rainy scenes is challenging due to background degradation introduced by rain streaks and rain accumulation effects in the scene. Rain accumulation effect refers to poor visibility of remote objects due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Ruoteng Li , Robby T. Tan , Loong-Fah Cheong

Both optical flow and stereo disparities are image matches and can therefore benefit from joint training. Depth and 3D motion provide geometric rather than photometric information and can further improve optical flow. Accordingly, we design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuai Yuan , Carlo Tomasi

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, yet the reliance on expensive ground-truth annotations limits the scalability of supervised approaches. Although unsupervised and semi-supervised methods alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yixuan Luo , Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Yanjing Li , Nathan Jacobs

Despite the remarkable success of sampling-based generative models such as flow matching, they can still produce samples of inconsistent or degraded quality. To assess sample reliability and generate higher-quality outputs, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Juyeop Han , Lukas Lao Beyer , Sertac Karaman

Quantifying aleatoric uncertainty in medical image segmentation is critical since it is a reflection of the natural variability observed among expert annotators. A conventional approach is to model the segmentation distribution using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Phi Van Nguyen , Ngoc Huynh Trinh , Duy Minh Lam Nguyen , Phu Loc Nguyen , Quoc Long Tran

Uncertainty quantification for Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is critical for comparing flow fields with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) results, and model design and validation. However, PIV features a complex measurement chain with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-07 Lalit K. Rajendran , Sayantan Bhattacharya , Sally P. M. Bane , Pavlos P. Vlachos

We address the problem of joint optical flow and camera motion estimation in rigid scenes by incorporating geometric constraints into an unsupervised deep learning framework. Unlike existing approaches which rely on brightness constancy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Shihao Jiang , Dylan Campbell , Miaomiao Liu , Stephen Gould , Richard Hartley

In the domain of computer vision, optical flow stands as a cornerstone for unraveling dynamic visual scenes. However, the challenge of accurately estimating optical flow under conditions of large nonlinear motion patterns remains an open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chanuka Algama , Kasun Amarasinghe

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

We introduce VideoFlow, a novel optical flow estimation framework for videos. In contrast to previous methods that learn to estimate optical flow from two frames, VideoFlow concurrently estimates bi-directional optical flows for multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiaoyu Shi , Zhaoyang Huang , Weikang Bian , Dasong Li , Manyuan Zhang , Ka Chun Cheung , Simon See , Hongwei Qin , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

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

Flow matching has become a leading framework for generative modeling, but quantifying the uncertainty of its samples remains an open problem. Existing approaches retrain the model with auxiliary variance heads, maintain costly ensembles, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiarui Xing , Song Wang , Jian Wang

We address the problem of motion estimation in images operating in the frequency domain. A method is presented which extends phase correlation to handle multiple motions present in an area. Our scheme is based on a novel Bilateral-Phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Vasileios Argyriou

Recently, convolutional networks (convnets) have proven useful for predicting optical flow. Much of this success is predicated on the availability of large datasets that require expensive and involved data acquisition and laborious la-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Jason J. Yu , Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis

We propose to incorporate feature correlation and sequential processing into dense optical flow estimation from event cameras. Modern frame-based optical flow methods heavily rely on matching costs computed from feature correlation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mathias Gehrig , Mario Millhäusler , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Recent learning-based methods for event-based optical flow estimation utilize cost volumes for pixel matching but suffer from redundant computations and limited scalability to higher resolutions for flow refinement. In this work, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daikun Liu , Lei Cheng , Teng Wang , changyin Sun

We propose a novel approach for optical flow estimation , targeted at large displacements with significant oc-clusions. It consists of two steps: i) dense matching by edge-preserving interpolation from a sparse set of matches; ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Jerome Revaud , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Occlusions between consecutive frames have long posed a significant challenge in optical flow estimation. The inherent ambiguity introduced by occlusions directly violates the brightness constancy constraint and considerably hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shangkun Sun , Jiaming Liu , Thomas H. Li , Huaxia Li , Guoqing Liu , Wei Gao

We tackle the problem of estimating flow between two images with large lighting variations. Recent learning-based flow estimation frameworks have shown remarkable performance on image pairs with small displacement and constant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Zhaoyang Huang , Xiaokun Pan , Runsen Xu , Yan Xu , Ka chun Cheung , Guofeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li