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The interpretation of ego motion and scene change is a fundamental task for mobile robots. Optical flow information can be employed to estimate motion in the surroundings. Recently, unsupervised optical flow estimation has become a research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Hengli Wang , Rui Fan , Ming Liu

We propose GeoNet, a jointly unsupervised learning framework for monocular depth, optical flow and ego-motion estimation from videos. The three components are coupled by the nature of 3D scene geometry, jointly learned by our framework in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Zhichao Yin , Jianping Shi

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

This paper studies optical flow estimation, a critical task in motion analysis with applications in autonomous navigation, action recognition, and film production. Traditional optical flow methods require consecutive frames, which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mo Zhou , Jianwei Wang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Kai Wang , Long Yuan , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Extracting information on fluid motion directly from images is challenging. Fluid flow represents a complex dynamic system governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. General optical flow methods are typically designed for rigid body motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mingrui Zhang , Jianhong Wang , James Tlhomole , Matthew D. Piggott

Scene flow estimation determines a scene's 3D motion field, by predicting the motion of points in the scene, especially for aiding tasks in autonomous driving. Many networks with large-scale point clouds as input use voxelization to create…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Qingwen Zhang , Yi Yang , Heng Fang , Ruoyu Geng , Patric Jensfelt

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

Large models have shown generalization across datasets for many low-level vision tasks, like depth estimation, but no such general models exist for scene flow. Even though scene flow has wide potential use, it is not used in practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yiqing Liang , Abhishek Badki , Hang Su , James Tompkin , Orazio Gallo

Recently, neural network for scene flow estimation show impressive results on automotive data such as the KITTI benchmark. However, despite of using sophisticated rigidity assumptions and parametrizations, such networks are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Lukas Mehl , Azin Jahedi , Jenny Schmalfuss , Andrés Bruhn

Unsupervised localization and segmentation are long-standing robot vision challenges that describe the critical ability for an autonomous robot to learn to decompose images into individual objects without labeled data. These tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xinyu Zhang , Abdeslam Boularias

Novel experimental modalities acquire spatially resolved velocity measurements for steady state and transient flows which are of interest for engineering and biological applications. One of the drawbacks of such high resolution velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-31 H. Egger , T. Seitz , C. Tropea

Surround depth estimation provides a cost-effective alternative to LiDAR for 3D perception in autonomous driving. While recent self-supervised methods explore multi-camera settings to improve scale awareness and scene coverage, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Weimin Liu , Jiyuan Qiu , Wenjun Wang , Joshua H. Meng

Existing work on scene flow estimation focuses on autonomous driving and mobile robotics, while automated solutions are lacking for motion in nature, such as that exhibited by debris flows. We propose DEFLOW, a model for 3D motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Liyuan Zhu , Yuru Jia , Shengyu Huang , Nicholas Meyer , Andreas Wieser , Konrad Schindler , Jordan Aaron

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

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

We study self-supervised procedure learning, which discovers key steps and their order from a set of unlabeled videos. Previous methods typically learn frame-to-frame correspondences between videos before determining key steps and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Syed Ahmed Mahmood , Ali Shah Ali , Umer Ahmed , Fawad Javed Fateh , M. Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran

The goal of this paper is to discover, segment, and track independently moving objects in complex visual scenes. Previous approaches have explored the use of optical flow for motion segmentation, leading to imperfect predictions due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Junyu Xie , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

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

Self-supervised feed-forward methods for scene flow estimation offer real-time efficiency, but their supervision from two-frame point correspondences is unreliable and often breaks down under occlusions. Multi-frame supervision has the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qingwen Zhang , Chenhan Jiang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yunqi Miao , Yushan Zhang , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

A training pipeline for optical flow CNNs consists of a pretraining stage on a synthetic dataset followed by a fine tuning stage on a target dataset. However, obtaining ground truth flows from a target video requires a tremendous effort.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Woobin Im , Sebin Lee , Sung-Eui Yoon