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Optical flow estimation is a challenging problem remaining unsolved. Recent deep learning based optical flow models have achieved considerable success. However, these models often train networks from the scratch on standard optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Qiaole Dong , Chenjie Cao , Yanwei Fu

New technologies such as Rectified Flow and Flow Matching have significantly improved the performance of generative models in the past two years, especially in terms of control accuracy, generation quality, and generation efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sen Fang , Hongbin Zhong , Yalin Feng , Yanxin Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Recent work has shown that leveraging learned predictions can improve the running time of algorithms for bipartite matching and similar combinatorial problems. In this work, we build on this idea to improve the performance of the widely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Sami Davies , Benjamin Moseley , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Yuyan Wang

Many applications of computational fluid dynamics require multiple simulations of a flow under different input conditions. In this paper, a numerical algorithm is developed to efficiently determine a set of such simulations in which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Max Gunzburger , Nan Jiang , Zhu Wang

Autonomous vehicles operate in highly dynamic environments necessitating an accurate assessment of which aspects of a scene are moving and where they are moving to. A popular approach to 3D motion estimation, termed scene flow, is to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Philipp Jund , Chris Sweeney , Nichola Abdo , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens

Finding image correspondences remains a challenging problem in the presence of intra-class variations and large changes in scene layout. Semantic flow methods are designed to handle images depicting different instances of the same object or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Bumsub Ham , Minsu Cho , Cordelia Schmid , Jean Ponce

The present paper deals with the problem of improving the efficiency of large scale turbulent flow simulations. The high-fidelity methods for modelling turbulent flows become available for a wider range of applications thanks to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Boris Krasnopolsky

Generative models based on dynamical equations such as flows and diffusions offer exceptional sample quality, but require computationally expensive numerical integration during inference. The advent of consistency models has enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nicholas M. Boffi , Michael S. Albergo , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

In multiphase flow systems, classifying flow patterns is crucial to optimize fluid dynamics and enhance system efficiency. Current industrial methods and scientific laboratories mainly depend on techniques such as flow visualization using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Nian Ran , Fayez M. Al-Alweet , Richard Allmendinger , Ahmad Almakhlafi

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Recent direct-regression methods using deep neural networks achieve remarkable performance improvement. However, they do not explicitly capture long-term motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Shiyu Zhao , Long Zhao , Zhixing Zhang , Enyu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Optical flow techniques are becoming increasingly performant and robust when estimating motion in a scene, but their performance has yet to be proven in the area of facial expression recognition. In this work, a variety of optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Benjamin Allaert , Isaac Ronald Ward , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Chaabane Djeraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

Real-time video frame interpolation (VFI) is very useful in video processing, media players, and display devices. We propose RIFE, a Real-time Intermediate Flow Estimation algorithm for VFI. To realize a high-quality flow-based VFI method,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Zhewei Huang , Tianyuan Zhang , Wen Heng , Boxin Shi , Shuchang Zhou

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

A majority of methods for video frame interpolation compute bidirectional optical flow between adjacent frames of a video, followed by a suitable warping algorithm to generate the output frames. However, approaches relying on optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Tarun Kalluri , Deepak Pathak , Manmohan Chandraker , Du Tran

Diffusion models have achieved significant progress in both image and video generation while still suffering from huge computation costs. As an effective solution, flow matching aims to reflow the diffusion process of diffusion models into…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lei Ke , Haohang Xu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Li , Jiajun Li , Haoling Li , Yuxuan Lin , Dongsheng Jiang , Yujiu Yang , Linfeng Zhang

Before the deep learning revolution, many perception algorithms were based on runtime optimization in conjunction with a strong prior/regularization penalty. A prime example of this in computer vision is optical and scene flow. Supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Xueqian Li , Jhony Kaesemodel Pontes , Simon Lucey

LiDAR representation learning has emerged as a promising approach to reducing reliance on costly and labor-intensive human annotations. While existing methods primarily focus on spatial alignment between LiDAR and camera sensors, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiang Xu , Lingdong Kong , Hui Shuai , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Qingshan Liu

We propose and study a method called FLOT that estimates scene flow on point clouds. We start the design of FLOT by noticing that scene flow estimation on point clouds reduces to estimating a permutation matrix in a perfect world. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Gilles Puy , Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet

Real-time moving object detection in unconstrained scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. In this paper, an optical flow based moving object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Jiagang Zhu , Zheng Zhu

Current scene flow methods broadly fail to describe motion on small objects, and current scene flow evaluation protocols hide this failure by averaging over many points, with most drawn larger objects. To fix this evaluation failure, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Ishan Khatri , Kyle Vedder , Neehar Peri , Deva Ramanan , James Hays