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Scene flow is a description of real world motion in 3D that contains more information than optical flow. Because of its complexity there exists no applicable variant for real-time scene flow estimation in an automotive or commercial vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 René Schuster , Christian Bailer , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

The scarcity of ground-truth labels poses one major challenge in developing optical flow estimation models that are both generalizable and robust. While current methods rely on data augmentation, they have yet to fully exploit the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Risheek Garrepalli , Jamie Menjay Lin , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Occlusions between consecutive frames have long posed a significant challenge in optical flow estimation. The inherent ambiguity introduced by occlusions directly violates the brightness constancy constraint and considerably hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shangkun Sun , Jiaming Liu , Thomas H. Li , Huaxia Li , Guoqing Liu , Wei Gao

Event-based motion field estimation is an important task. However, current optical flow methods face challenges: learning-based approaches, often frame-based and relying on CNNs, lack cross-domain transferability, while model-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dehao Yuan , Levi Burner , Jiayi Wu , Minghui Liu , Jingxi Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermüller

Optical flow is the pattern of apparent motion of objects in a scene. The computation of optical flow is a critical component in numerous computer vision tasks such as object detection, visual object tracking, and activity recognition.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Muhammad Wasim Nawaz , Abdesselam Bouzerdoum , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Ghulam Abbas , Faizan Rashid

Many video enhancement algorithms rely on optical flow to register frames in a video sequence. Precise flow estimation is however intractable; and optical flow itself is often a sub-optimal representation for particular video processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Tianfan Xue , Baian Chen , Jiajun Wu , Donglai Wei , William T. Freeman

Early detection of developmental disorders can be aided by analyzing infant craniofacial morphology, but modeling infant faces is challenging due to limited data and frequent spontaneous expressions. We introduce BabyFlow, a generative AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Antonia Alomar , Mireia Masias , Marius George Linguraru , Federico M. Sukno , Gemma Piella

We show that the matching problem that underlies optical flow requires multiple strategies, depending on the amount of image motion and other factors. We then study the implications of this observation on training a deep neural network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Tal Schuster , Lior Wolf , David Gadot

Optical flow, or the estimation of motion fields from image sequences, is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision. Unlike most pixel-wise tasks that aim at achieving consistent representations of the same category, optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Xin Li , Lang Nie , Chunyu Lin , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

We tackle the problem of estimating optical flow from a monocular camera in the context of autonomous driving. We build on the observation that the scene is typically composed of a static background, as well as a relatively small number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Min Bai , Wenjie Luo , Kaustav Kundu , Raquel Urtasun

Emotional expressions are the behaviors that communicate our emotional state or attitude to others. They are expressed through verbal and non-verbal communication. Complex human behavior can be understood by studying physical features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Liam Schoneveld , Alice Othmani , Hazem Abdelkawy

Scene flow estimation, which extracts point-wise motion between scenes, is becoming a crucial task in many computer vision tasks. However, all of the existing estimation methods utilize only the unidirectional features, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Wencan Cheng , Jong Hwan Ko

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

Microexpressions are fast and spatially small facial expressions that are difficult to detect. Therefore motion magnification techniques, which aim at amplifying and hence revealing subtle motion in videos, appear useful for handling such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Philipp Flotho , Cosmas Heiss , Gabriele Steidl , Daniel J. Strauss

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

Key-point-based scene understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving applications. At the same time, optical flow plays an important role in many vision tasks. However, due to the implicit bias of equal attention on all points, classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhonghua Yi , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Qi Jiang , Yaozu Ye , Ze Wang , Huajian Ni , Kaiwei Wang

The facial expression recognition is an ocular task that can be performed without human discomfort, is really a speedily growing on the computer research field. There are many applications and programs uses facial expression to evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Abdelmajid Hassan Mansour , Gafar Zen Alabdeen Salh , Ali Shaif Alhalemi

In this paper we present a decomposition algorithm for computation of the spatial-temporal optical flow of a dynamic image sequence. We consider several applications, such as the extraction of temporal motion features and motion detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Aniello Raffale Patrone , Otmar Scherzer

This paper proposes combining spatio-temporal appearance (STA) descriptors with optical flow for human action recognition. The STA descriptors are local histogram-based descriptors of space-time, suitable for building a partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Karla Brkić , Srđan Rašić , Axel Pinz , Siniša Šegvić , Zoran Kalafatić

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