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An approximation model based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is proposed for flow field predictions. The CNN is used to predict the velocity and pressure field in unseen flow conditions and geometries given the pixelated shape of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-14 Yaser Afshar , Saakaar Bhatnagar , Shaowu Pan , Karthik Duraisamy , Shailendra Kaushik

Flow models have recently made great progress at modeling ordinal discrete data such as images and audio. Due to the continuous nature of flow models, dequantization is typically applied when using them for such discrete data, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Didrik Nielsen , Ole Winther

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras (low latency, high dynamic range, low power, etc.). Optical flow estimation methods that work on packets of events trade off speed for accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

We present FractalPINN-Flow, an unsupervised deep learning framework for dense optical flow estimation that learns directly from consecutive grayscale frames without requiring ground truth. The architecture centers on the Fractal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Sara Behnamian , Rasoul Khaksarinezhad , Andreas Langer

The dynamics of droplet collisions in microchannels are inherently complex, governed by multiple interdependent physical and geometric factors. Understanding and predicting the outcomes of these collisions-whether coalescence, reverse-back,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-12 SM Abdullah Al Mamun , Samaneh Farokhirad

Flow estimation problems are ubiquitous in scientific imaging. Often, the underlying flows are subject to physical constraints that can be exploited in the flow estimation; for example, incompressible (divergence-free) flows are expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Miao Qi , Ramzi Idoughi , Wolfgang Heidrich

We systematically compare and analyze a set of key components in unsupervised optical flow to identify which photometric loss, occlusion handling, and smoothness regularization is most effective. Alongside this investigation we construct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Rico Jonschkowski , Austin Stone , Jonathan T. Barron , Ariel Gordon , Kurt Konolige , Anelia Angelova

In the realm of resource-constrained mobile vision tasks, the pursuit of efficiency and performance consistently drives innovation in lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs). While ViTs excel at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Mingshu Zhao , Yi Luo , Yong Ouyang

Motion representation plays a vital role in human action recognition in videos. In this study, we introduce a novel compact motion representation for video action recognition, named Optical Flow guided Feature (OFF), which enables the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Wanli Ouyang , Lu Sheng , Wei Zhang

Fast flow models accelerate the iterative sampling process by learning to directly predict ODE path integrals, enabling one-step or few-step generation. However, we argue that current fast-flow training paradigms suffer from two fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tianyi Zhang , Chengcheng Liu , Jinwei Chen , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Li , Peng-Tao Jiang

The aim of this paper is to discuss and evaluate total variation based regularization methods for motion estimation, with particular focus on optical flow models. In addition to standard $L^2$ and $L^1$ data fidelities we give an overview…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Martin Burger , Hendrik Dirks , Lena Frerking

Optical flow is inherently a 2D search problem, and thus the computational complexity grows quadratically with respect to the search window, making large displacements matching infeasible for high-resolution images. In this paper, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Haofei Xu , Jiaolong Yang , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang , Xin Tong

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require both intensive computation and frequent memory access, which lead to a low processing speed and large power dissipation. Although the characteristics of the different layers in a CNN are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Duy Thanh Nguyen , Hyun Kim , Hyuk-Jae Lee

This paper introduces a novel neural network - flow completion network (FCN) - to infer the fluid dynamics, includ-ing the flow field and the force acting on the body, from the incomplete data based on Graph Convolution AttentionNetwork.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-24 Xiaodong He , Yinan Wang , Juan Li

The use of machine learning in fluid dynamics is becoming more common to expedite the computation when solving forward and inverse problems of partial differential equations. Yet, a notable challenge with existing convolutional neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-10 Siming Shan , Pengkai Wang , Song Chen , Jiaxu Liu , Chao Xu , Shengze Cai

3D motion estimation including scene flow and point cloud registration has drawn increasing interest. Inspired by 2D flow estimation, recent methods employ deep neural networks to construct the cost volume for estimating accurate 3D flow.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xiaodong Gu , Chengzhou Tang , Weihao Yuan , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

It is well known that classical formulations resembling the Horn and Schunck model are still largely competitive due to the modern implementation practices. In most cases, these models outperform many modern flow estimation methods. In view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Hirak Doshi , N. Uday Kiran

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

This paper introduces OptiGridML, a machine learning framework for discrete topology optimization in power grids. The task involves selecting substation breaker configurations that maximize cross-region power exports, a problem typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dekang Meng , Rabab Haider , Pascal van Hentenryck

Normalizing flow is a generative modeling approach with efficient sampling. However, Flow-based models suffer two issues: 1) If the target distribution is manifold, due to the unmatch between the dimensions of the latent target distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Qinglong Meng , Chongkun Xia , Xueqian Wang