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Optical flow estimation is an essential task in self-driving systems, which helps autonomous vehicles perceive temporal continuity information of surrounding scenes. The calculation of all-pair correlation plays an important role in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hao Shi , Yifan Zhou , Kailun Yang , Xiaoting Yin , Kaiwei Wang

Optical flow computation is essential in the early stages of the video processing pipeline. This paper focuses on a less explored problem in this area, the 360$^\circ$ optical flow estimation using deep neural networks to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yiheng Li , Connelly Barnes , Kun Huang , Fang-Lue Zhang

Panoramic optical flow enables a comprehensive understanding of temporal dynamics across wide fields of view. However, severe distortions caused by sphere-to-plane projections, such as the equirectangular projection (ERP), significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Longliang Liu , Miaojie Feng , Junda Cheng , Jijun Xiang , Xuan Zhu , Xin Yang

Event-based motion field estimation is an important task. However, current optical flow methods face challenges: learning-based approaches, often frame-based and relying on CNNs, lack cross-domain transferability, while model-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dehao Yuan , Levi Burner , Jiayi Wu , Minghui Liu , Jingxi Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermüller

Single view depth estimation models can be trained from video footage using a self-supervised end-to-end approach with view synthesis as the supervisory signal. This is achieved with a framework that predicts depth and camera motion, with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Maarten Schellevis

In this paper, we study the problem of jointly estimating the optical flow and scene flow from synchronized 2D and 3D data. Previous methods either employ a complex pipeline that splits the joint task into independent stages, or fuse 2D and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Haisong Liu , Tao Lu , Yihui Xu , Jia Liu , Limin Wang

Most of current Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based methods for optical flow estimation focus on learning optical flow on synthetic datasets with groundtruth, which is not practical. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Shuosen Guan , Haoxin Li , Wei-Shi Zheng

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 estimation is extensively used in autonomous driving and video editing. While existing models demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across various benchmarks, the robustness of these methods has been infrequently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Zhonghua Yi , Hao Shi , Qi Jiang , Yao Gao , Ze Wang , Yufan Zhang , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang

Event cameras hold significant promise for high-temporal-resolution (HTR) motion estimation. However, estimating event-based HTR optical flow faces two key challenges: the absence of HTR ground-truth data and the intrinsic sparsity of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Qianang Zhou , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Yongjian Deng , Youfu Li , Junlin Xiong

Using deep learning, this paper addresses the problem of joint object boundary detection and boundary motion estimation in videos, which we named boundary flow estimation. Boundary flow is an important mid-level visual cue as boundaries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Peng Lei , Fuxin Li , Sinisa Todorovic

Discriminative correlation filters (DCF) with deep convolutional features have achieved favorable performance in recent tracking benchmarks. However, most of existing DCF trackers only consider appearance features of current frame, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Zheng Zhu , Wei Wu , Wei Zou , Junjie Yan

Deep learning approaches have achieved great success in addressing the problem of optical flow estimation. The keys to success lie in the use of cost volume and coarse-to-fine flow inference. However, the matching problem becomes ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Tak-Wai Hui , Chen Change Loy

This paper presents a novel architecture for simultaneous estimation of highly accurate optical flows and rigid scene transformations for difficult scenarios where the brightness assumption is violated by strong shading changes. In the case…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Torben Fetzer , Gerd Reis , Didier Stricker

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

Scene flow estimation is a foundational task for many robotic applications, including robust dynamic object detection, automatic labeling, and sensor synchronization. Two types of approaches to the problem have evolved: 1) Supervised and 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 David T. Hoffmann , Syed Haseeb Raza , Hanqiu Jiang , Denis Tananaev , Steffen Klingenhoefer , Martin Meinke

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been very successful in a variety of computer vision tasks, especially on those linked to recognition. Optical flow estimation has not been among the tasks where CNNs were successful. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Philipp Fischer , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Eddy Ilg , Philip Häusser , Caner Hazırbaş , Vladimir Golkov , Patrick van der Smagt , Daniel Cremers , Thomas Brox

Optical flow estimation is essential for video processing tasks, such as restoration and action recognition. The quality of videos is constantly increasing, with current standards reaching 8K resolution. However, optical flow methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Henrique Morimitsu , Xiaobin Zhu , Roberto M. Cesar , Xiangyang Ji , Xu-Cheng Yin

Most of the top performing action recognition methods use optical flow as a "black box" input. Here we take a deeper look at the combination of flow and action recognition, and investigate why optical flow is helpful, what makes a flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Yiyi Liao , Fatma Guney , Varun Jampani , Andreas Geiger , Michael J. Black

We present a framework to use recently introduced Capsule Networks for solving the problem of Optical Flow, one of the fundamental computer vision tasks. Most of the existing state of the art deep architectures either uses a correlation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Rahul Chand , Rajat Arora , K Ram Prabhakar , R Venkatesh Babu