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Video denoising aims at removing noise from videos to recover clean ones. Some existing works show that optical flow can help the denoising by exploiting the additional spatial-temporal clues from nearby frames. However, the flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jiezhang Cao , Qin Wang , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

In this paper we propose a novel approach to estimate dense optical flow from sparse lidar data acquired on an autonomous vehicle. This is intended to be used as a drop-in replacement of any image-based optical flow system when images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Victor Vaquero , Alberto Sanfeliu , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

Recent work has shown that optical flow estimation can be formulated as a supervised learning task and can be successfully solved with convolutional networks. Training of the so-called FlowNet was enabled by a large synthetically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Nikolaus Mayer , Eddy Ilg , Philip Häusser , Philipp Fischer , Daniel Cremers , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Generative video modeling has emerged as a compelling tool to zero-shot reason about plausible physical interactions for open-world manipulation. Yet, it remains a challenge to translate such human-led motions into the low-level actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Karthik Dharmarajan , Wenlong Huang , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang

Optical flow estimation is crucial for various applications in vision and robotics. As the difficulty of collecting ground truth optical flow in real-world scenarios, most of the existing methods of learning optical flow still adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Sheng-Chi Huang , Wei-Chen Chiu

This paper studies optical flow estimation, a critical task in motion analysis with applications in autonomous navigation, action recognition, and film production. Traditional optical flow methods require consecutive frames, which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mo Zhou , Jianwei Wang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Kai Wang , Long Yuan , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

This paper presents a general framework to build fast and accurate algorithms for video enhancement tasks such as super-resolution, deblurring, and denoising. Essential to our framework is the realization that the accuracy, rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yu Feng , Patrick Hansen , Paul N. Whatmough , Guoyu Lu , Yuhao Zhu

Point tracking models often struggle to generalize to real-world videos because large-scale training data is predominantly synthetic$\unicode{x2014}$the only source currently feasible to produce at scale. Collecting real-world annotations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Inès Hyeonsu Kim , Seokju Cho , Jahyeok Koo , Junghyun Park , Jiahui Huang , Honglak Lee , Joon-Young Lee , Seungryong Kim

With the recent advent of methods that allow for real-time computation, dense 3D flows have become a viable basis for fast camera motion estimation. Most importantly, dense flows are more robust than the sparse feature matching techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Thomas W. Mitchel , Christian Wuelker , Jin Seob Kim , Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

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

Although humans have the innate ability to imagine multiple possible actions from videos, it remains an extraordinary challenge for computers due to the intricate camera movements and montages. Most existing motion generation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Liangdong Qiu , Chengxing Yu , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Haibin Huang , Chongyang Ma , Di Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Xiaoguang Han

A good optical flow estimation is crucial in many video analysis and restoration algorithms employed in application fields like media industry, industrial inspection and automotive. In this work, we investigate how well optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Hannes Fassold

Annotated datasets are critical for training neural networks for object detection, yet their manual creation is time- and labour-intensive, subjective to human error, and often limited in diversity. This challenge is particularly pronounced…

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

Video compression relies heavily on exploiting the temporal redundancy between video frames, which is usually achieved by estimating and using the motion information. The motion information is represented as optical flows in most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Chuanbo Tang , Xihua Sheng , Zhuoyuan Li , Haotian Zhang , Li Li , Dong Liu

Recent approaches to point tracking are able to recover the trajectory of any scene point through a large portion of a video despite the presence of occlusions. They are, however, too slow in practice to track every point observed in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guillaume Le Moing , Jean Ponce , Cordelia Schmid

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

Learning to localize the sound source in videos without explicit annotations is a novel area of audio-visual research. Existing work in this area focuses on creating attention maps to capture the correlation between the two modalities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Dennis Fedorishin , Deen Dayal Mohan , Bhavin Jawade , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraju

We extend the concept of optical flow to a dynamic non-Euclidean setting. Optical flow is traditionally computed from a sequence of flat images. It is the purpose of this paper to introduce variational motion estimation for images that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Clemens Kirisits , Lukas F. Lang , Otmar Scherzer

CNN-based optical flow estimation has attracted attention recently, mainly due to its impressively high frame rates. These networks perform well on synthetic datasets, but they are still far behind the classical methods in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Nima Sedaghat , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox