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Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that asynchronously report intensity changes in microsecond resolution. DAVIS can capture high dynamics of a scene and simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Liyuan Pan , Miaomiao Liu , Richard Hartley

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

Estimating optical flows is one of the most interesting problems in computer vision, which estimates the essential information about pixel-wise displacements between two consecutive images. This work introduces an efficient dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Hongpeng Sun , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jing Yuan

Estimating the expectation of a real-valued function of a random variable from sample data is a critical aspect of statistical analysis, with far-reaching implications in various applications. Current methodologies typically assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Paweł Lorek , Rafał Nowak , Rafał Topolnicki , Tomasz Trzciński , Maciej Zięba , Aleksandra Krystecka

Optical flow estimation is a well-studied topic for automated driving applications. Many outstanding optical flow estimation methods have been proposed, but they become erroneous when tested in challenging scenarios that are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Senthil Yogamani

Conventional training for optical flow and stereo depth models typically employs a uniform loss function across all pixels. However, this one-size-fits-all approach often overlooks the significant variations in learning difficulty among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Jamie Menjay Lin , Fatih Porikli

Optical flow is the motion of a pixel between at least two consecutive video frames and can be estimated through an end-to-end trainable convolutional neural network. To this end, large training datasets are required to improve the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Roman Seidel , André Apitzsch , Gangolf Hirtz

Event cameras capture changes of illumination in the observed scene rather than accumulating light to create images. Thus, they allow for applications under high-speed motion and complex lighting conditions, where traditional framebased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Event cameras respond to changes in log-brightness at the millisecond level, making them ideal for optical flow estimation. However, existing datasets from event cameras provide only low frame rate ground truth for optical flow, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yaozu Ye , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Ze Wang , Xiaoting Yin , Lei Sun , Yaonan Wang , Kaiwei Wang

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

We address unsupervised optical flow estimation for ego-centric motion. We argue that optical flow can be cast as a geometrical warping between two successive video frames and devise a deep architecture to estimate such transformation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Stefano Alletto , Davide Abati , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara , Luca Rigazio

Optical flow estimation is crucial to a variety of vision tasks. Despite substantial recent advancements, achieving real-time on-device optical flow estimation remains a complex challenge. First, an optical flow model must be sufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Jamie Menjay Lin , Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Risheek Garrepalli , Kai Wang , Fatih Porikli

Large displacement optical flow is an integral part of many computer vision tasks. Variational optical flow techniques based on a coarse-to-fine scheme interpolate sparse matches and locally optimize an energy model conditioned on colour,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

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

Imposing consistency through proxy tasks has been shown to enhance data-driven learning and enable self-supervision in various tasks. This paper introduces novel and effective consistency strategies for optical flow estimation, a problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jisoo Jeong , Jamie Menjay Lin , Fatih Porikli , Nojun Kwak

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Rahul Ahuja , Chris Baker , Wilko Schwarting

The FlowNet demonstrated that optical flow estimation can be cast as a learning problem. However, the state of the art with regard to the quality of the flow has still been defined by traditional methods. Particularly on small displacements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Eddy Ilg , Nikolaus Mayer , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Estimating per-pixel motion between video frames, known as optical flow, is a long-standing problem in video understanding and analysis. Most contemporary optical flow techniques largely focus on addressing the cross-image matching with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Kunming Luo , Xin Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Optical flow estimation is one of the most studied problems in computer vision, yet recent benchmark datasets continue to reveal problem areas of today's approaches. Occlusions have remained one of the key challenges. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Optical flow is inherently a 2D search problem, and thus the computational complexity grows quadratically with respect to the search window, making large displacements matching infeasible for high-resolution images. In this paper, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Haofei Xu , Jiaolong Yang , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang , Xin Tong