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Optical flow is a fundamental technique for motion estimation, widely applied in video stabilization, interpolation, and object tracking. Traditional optical flow estimation methods rely on restrictive assumptions like brightness constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu-Hsi Chen , Chin-Tien Wu

We reframe scene flow as the task of estimating a continuous space-time ODE that describes motion for an entire observation sequence, represented with a neural prior. Our method, EulerFlow, optimizes this neural prior estimate against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kyle Vedder , Neehar Peri , Ishan Khatri , Siyi Li , Eric Eaton , Mehmet Kocamaz , Yue Wang , Zhiding Yu , Deva Ramanan , Joachim Pehserl

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is a crucial component in various applications, including localization and mapping in robotics, object tracking, and activity recognition in computer vision. While recent learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiyong Zhang , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

As a bio-inspired sensor with high temporal resolution, the spiking camera has an enormous potential in real applications, especially for motion estimation in high-speed scenes. However, frame-based and event-based methods are not well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Liwen Hu , Rui Zhao , Ziluo Ding , Lei Ma , Boxin Shi , Ruiqin Xiong , Tiejun Huang

Per-pixel ground-truth depth data is challenging to acquire at scale. To overcome this limitation, self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising alternative for training models to perform monocular depth estimation. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Clément Godard , Oisin Mac Aodha , Michael Firman , Gabriel Brostow

Over four decades, the majority addresses the problem of optical flow estimation using variational methods. With the advance of machine learning, some recent works have attempted to address the problem using convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Tak-Wai Hui , Xiaoou Tang , Chen Change Loy

In this work we present a lightweight, unsupervised learning pipeline for \textit{dense} depth, optical flow and egomotion estimation from sparse event output of the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS). To tackle this low level vision task, we use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Chengxi Ye , Anton Mitrokhin , Cornelia Fermüller , James A. Yorke , Yiannis Aloimonos

This work presents DCFlow, a novel unsupervised cross-modal flow estimation framework that integrates a decoupled optimization strategy and a cross-modal consistency constraint. Unlike previous approaches that implicitly learn flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Runmin Zhang , Jialiang Wang , Si-Yuan Cao , Zhu Yu , Junchen Yu , Guangyi Zhang , Hui-Liang Shen

Scene flow is the task of estimating 3D motion vectors to individual points of a dynamic 3D scene. Motion vectors have shown to be beneficial for downstream tasks such as action classification and collision avoidance. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Victor Zuanazzi

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

Most of the top performing action recognition methods use optical flow as a "black box" input. Here we take a deeper look at the combination of flow and action recognition, and investigate why optical flow is helpful, what makes a flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Yiyi Liao , Fatma Guney , Varun Jampani , Andreas Geiger , Michael J. Black

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Given this, we devise an optical flow algorithm specifically for human motion and show that it is superior to generic flow methods. Designing a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Anurag Ranjan , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

We propose a new pipeline for optical flow computation, based on Deep Learning techniques. We suggest using a Siamese CNN to independently, and in parallel, compute the descriptors of both images. The learned descriptors are then compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 David Gadot , Lior Wolf

Feature warping is a core technique in optical flow estimation; however, the ambiguity caused by occluded areas during warping is a major problem that remains unsolved. In this paper, we propose an asymmetric occlusion-aware feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Shengyu Zhao , Yilun Sheng , Yue Dong , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

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

Learning depth and optical flow via deep neural networks by watching videos has made significant progress recently. In this paper, we jointly solve the two tasks by exploiting the underlying geometric rules within stereo videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Yang Wang , Zhenheng Yang , Peng Wang , Yi Yang , Chenxu Luo , Wei Xu

This paper deals with the scarcity of data for training optical flow networks, highlighting the limitations of existing sources such as labeled synthetic datasets or unlabeled real videos. Specifically, we introduce a framework to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

Learning-based optical flow estimation has been dominated with the pipeline of cost volume with convolutions for flow regression, which is inherently limited to local correlations and thus is hard to address the long-standing challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Dacheng Tao

Stereo matching and flow estimation are two essential tasks for scene understanding, spatially in 3D and temporally in motion. Existing approaches have been focused on the unsupervised setting due to the limited resource to obtain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Hsueh-Ying Lai , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu

Accurate perception of the dynamic environment is a fundamental task for autonomous driving and robot systems. This paper introduces Let Occ Flow, the first self-supervised work for joint 3D occupancy and occupancy flow prediction using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yili Liu , Linzhan Mou , Xuan Yu , Chenrui Han , Sitong Mao , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang