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State-of-the-art scene flow algorithms pursue the conflicting targets of accuracy, run time, and robustness. With the successful concept of pixel-wise matching and sparse-to-dense interpolation, we push the limits of scene flow estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Christian Unger , Georg Kuschk , Didier Stricker

To date, top-performing optical flow estimation methods only take pairs of consecutive frames into account. While elegant and appealing, the idea of using more than two frames has not yet produced state-of-the-art results. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Zhile Ren , Orazio Gallo , Deqing Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Erik B. Sudderth , Jan Kautz

Video frame interpolation is the task of creating an interframe between two adjacent frames along the time axis. So, instead of simply averaging two adjacent frames to create an intermediate image, this operation should maintain semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Saem Park , Donghoon Han , Nojun Kwak

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

Scene flow describes 3D motion in a 3D scene. It can either be modeled as a single task, or it can be reconstructed from the auxiliary tasks of stereo depth and optical flow estimation. While the second method can achieve real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Traditional approaches to interpolate/extrapolate frames in a video sequence require accurate pixel correspondences between images, e.g., using optical flow. Their results stem on the accuracy of optical flow estimation, and could generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Zhe Hu , Yinglan Ma , Lizhuang Ma

Reconstructing high-quality images from undersampled dynamic MRI data is a challenging task and important for the success of this imaging modality. To remedy the naturally occurring artifacts due to measurement undersampling, one can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Marco Mauritz

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

Flow matching has emerged as a simulation-free alternative to diffusion-based generative modeling, producing samples by solving an ODE whose time-dependent velocity field is learned along an interpolation between a simple source…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-10 Shivam Kumar , Yixin Wang , Lizhen Lin

We present a method for determining surface flows from solar images based upon optical flow techniques. We apply the method to sets of images obtained by a variety of solar imagers to assess its performance. The {\tt opflow3d} procedure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Neal Hurlburt , Steve Jaffey

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

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

Video interpolation is an important problem in computer vision, which helps overcome the temporal limitation of camera sensors. Existing video interpolation methods usually assume uniform motion between consecutive frames and use linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Xiangyu Xu , Li Siyao , Wenxiu Sun , Qian Yin , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Depth map estimation is a crucial task in computer vision, and new approaches have recently emerged taking advantage of light fields, as this new imaging modality captures much more information about the angular direction of light rays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Yang Chen , Martin Alain , Aljosa Smolic

The accuracy of learning-based optical flow estimation models heavily relies on the realism of the training datasets. Current approaches for generating such datasets either employ synthetic data or generate images with limited realism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Yingping Liang , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang , Ying Fu

Small flying robots can perform landing maneuvers using bio-inspired optical flow by maintaining a constant divergence. However, optical flow is typically estimated from frame sequences recorded by standard miniature cameras. This requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Bas J. Pijnacker Hordijk , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

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

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

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

Dynamic vision sensors or event cameras provide rich complementary information for video frame interpolation. Existing state-of-the-art methods follow the paradigm of combining both synthesis-based and warping networks. However, few of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jiaben Chen , Yichen Zhu , Dongze Lian , Jiaqi Yang , Yifu Wang , Renrui Zhang , Xinhang Liu , Shenhan Qian , Laurent Kneip , Shenghua Gao