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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

Initializing optical flow field by either sparse descriptor matching or dense patch matches has been proved to be particularly useful for capturing large displacements. In this paper, we present a pyramidal gradient matching approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Yuanwei Li

While most scene flow methods use either variational optimization or a strong rigid motion assumption, we show for the first time that scene flow can also be estimated by dense interpolation of sparse matches. To this end, we find sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Georg Kuschk , Christian Bailer , Didier Stricker

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

Efficiently selecting an appropriate spike stream data length to extract precise information is the key to the spike vision tasks. To address this issue, we propose a dynamic timing representation for spike streams. Based on multi-layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Lujie Xia , Ziluo Ding , Rui Zhao , Jiyuan Zhang , Lei Ma , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang , Ruiqin Xiong

Modern large displacement optical flow algorithms usually use an initialization by either sparse descriptor matching techniques or dense approximate nearest neighbor fields. While the latter have the advantage of being dense, they have the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Christian Bailer , Bertram Taetz , Didier Stricker

Optical Flow (OF) is the movement pattern of pixels or edges that is caused in a visual scene by the relative motion between an agent and a scene. OF is used in a wide range of computer vision algorithms and robotics applications. While the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Jonas Kühne , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

We introduce Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms (RAFT), a new deep network architecture for optical flow. RAFT extracts per-pixel features, builds multi-scale 4D correlation volumes for all pairs of pixels, and iteratively updates a flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Zachary Teed , Jia Deng

Estimating motion in videos is an essential computer vision problem with many downstream applications, including controllable video generation and robotics. Current solutions are primarily trained using synthetic data or require tuning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Stefan Stojanov , David Wendt , Seungwoo Kim , Rahul Venkatesh , Kevin Feigelis , Jiajun Wu , Daniel LK Yamins

This paper introduces a computationally efficient technique for estimating high-resolution Doppler blood flow from an ultrafast ultrasound image sequence. More precisely, it consists in a new fast alternating minimization algorithm that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Duong-Hung Pham , Adrian Basarab , Jean-Pierre Remenieras , Paul Rodríguez , Denis Kouamé

Recent works on optical flow estimation use neural networks to predict the flow field that maps positions of one image to positions of the other. These networks consist of a feature extractor, a correlation volume, and finally several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Leyla Mirvakhabova , Hong Cai , Jisoo Jeong , Hanno Ackermann , Farhad Zanjani , Fatih Porikli

Optical flow computation with frame-based cameras provides high accuracy but the speed is limited either by the model size of the algorithm or by the frame rate of the camera. This makes it inadequate for high-speed applications. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Ashwin Sanjay Lele , Arijit Raychowdhury

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

Autonomous vehicle navigation is a key challenge in artificial intelligence, requiring robust and accurate decision-making processes. This research introduces a new end-to-end method that exploits multimodal information from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Fouad Makiyeh , Mark Bastourous , Anass Bairouk , Wei Xiao , Mirjana Maras , Tsun-Hsuan Wangb , Marc Blanchon , Ramin Hasani , Patrick Chareyre , Daniela Rus

Recently, the dense correlation volume method achieves state-of-the-art performance in optical flow. However, the correlation volume computation requires a lot of memory, which makes prediction difficult on high-resolution images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zihua Zheng , Ni Nie , Zhi Ling , Pengfei Xiong , Jiangyu Liu , Hao Wang , Jiankun Li

The optical flow estimation has been assessed in various applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method named motion edge structure difference(MESD) to assess estimation errors of optical flow fields on edge of motion objects. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Bin Liao , Jinlong Hu

Optical flow is a regression task where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to major breakthroughs. However, this comes at major computational demands due to the use of cost-volumes and pyramidal representations. This was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg

Optical flow is a crucial component of the feature space for early visual processing of dynamic scenes especially in new applications such as self-driving vehicles, drones and autonomous robots. The dynamic vision sensors are well suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Himanshu Akolkar , SioHoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

Optical flow estimation is an important computer vision task, which aims at estimating the dense correspondences between two frames. RAFT (Recurrent All Pairs Field Transforms) currently represents the state-of-the-art in optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Zhexiong Wan , Yuxin Mao , Yuchao Dai

Video frame interpolation aims to synthesize nonexistent frames in-between the original frames. While significant advances have been made from the recent deep convolutional neural networks, the quality of interpolation is often reduced due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Wenbo Bao , Wei-Sheng Lai , Chao Ma , Xiaoyun Zhang , Zhiyong Gao , Ming-Hsuan Yang