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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

Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Haoyue Liu , Luxin Yan

Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

Video frame interpolation algorithms typically estimate optical flow or its variations and then use it to guide the synthesis of an intermediate frame between two consecutive original frames. To handle challenges like occlusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Simon Niklaus , Feng Liu

Learning-based optical flow estimation has been dominated with the pipeline of cost volume with convolutions for flow regression, which is inherently limited to local correlations and thus is hard to address the long-standing challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Dacheng Tao

Optical flow is an indispensable building block for various important computer vision tasks, including motion estimation, object tracking, and disparity measurement. In this work, we propose TransFlow, a pure transformer architecture for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yawen Lu , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Tong Geng , Yingjie Victor Chen , Huaijin Chen , Dongfang Liu

Most recent diffusion-based methods still show a large gap compared to non-diffusion methods for video frame interpolation, in both accuracy and efficiency. Most of them formulate the problem as a denoising procedure in latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yang Hai , Guo Wang , Tan Su , Wenjie Jiang , Yinlin Hu

Estimating 3D scene flow from a sequence of monocular images has been gaining increased attention due to the simple, economical capture setup. Owing to the severe ill-posedness of the problem, the accuracy of current methods has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

We propose to modify the common training protocols of optical flow, leading to sizable accuracy improvements without adding to the computational complexity of the training process. The improvement is based on observing the bias in sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Aviram Bar-Haim , Lior Wolf

Despite recent advances, estimating optical flow remains a challenging problem in the presence of illumination change, large occlusions or fast movement. In this paper, we propose a novel optical flow estimation framework which can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Inchul Choi , Arunava Banerjee

Scene flow estimation aims to generate the 3D motion field of points between two consecutive frames of point clouds, which has wide applications in various fields. Existing point-based methods ignore the irregularity of point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xuezhi Xiang , Xi Wang , Lei Zhang , Denis Ombati , Himaloy Himu , Xiantong Zhen

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

Video Frame Interpolation synthesizes non-existent images between adjacent frames, with the aim of providing a smooth and consistent visual experience. Two approaches for solving this challenging task are optical flow based and kernel-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Xi Li , Meng Cao , Yingying Tang , Scott Johnston , Zhendong Hong , Huimin Ma , Jiulong Shan

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

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

Existing optical flow methods are erroneous in challenging scenes, such as fog, rain, and night because the basic optical flow assumptions such as brightness and gradient constancy are broken. To address this problem, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Haipeng Li , Kunming Luo , Shuaicheng Liu

We tackle the problem of estimating optical flow from a monocular camera in the context of autonomous driving. We build on the observation that the scene is typically composed of a static background, as well as a relatively small number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Min Bai , Wenjie Luo , Kaustav Kundu , Raquel Urtasun

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

Optical flow is a useful input for various applications, including 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, tracking, and structure-from-motion. Despite its utility, the field of dense long-term tracking, especially over wide baselines, has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Tomáš Jelínek , Jonáš Šerých , Jiří Matas

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