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In autonomous driving scenarios, the collected LiDAR point clouds can be challenged by occlusion and long-range sparsity, limiting the perception of autonomous driving systems. Scene completion methods can infer the missing parts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Andrea Matteazzi , Dietmar Tutsch

Scene flow represents the motion of points in the 3D space, which is the counterpart of the optical flow that represents the motion of pixels in the 2D image. However, it is difficult to obtain the ground truth of scene flow in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Xiaoyu Tian , Ruiqi Ding , Hesheng Wang

The paper addresses the problem of motion saliency in videos, that is, identifying regions that undergo motion departing from its context. We propose a new unsupervised paradigm to compute motion saliency maps. The key ingredient is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-05 L. Maczyta , P. Bouthemy , O. Le Meur

Odometry is a critical task for autonomous systems for self-localization and navigation. We propose a novel LiDAR-Visual odometry framework that integrates LiDAR point clouds and images for accurate and robust pose estimation. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 JunYing Huang , Ao Xu , DongSun Yong , KeRen Li , YuanFeng Wang , Qi Qin

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

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

Dynamic scenes that contain both object motion and egomotion are a challenge for monocular visual odometry (VO). Another issue with monocular VO is the scale ambiguity, i.e. these methods cannot estimate scene depth and camera motion in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Hirak J Kashyap , Charless Fowlkes , Jeffrey L Krichmar

Dynamic inverse problems are challenging to solve due to the need to identify and incorporate appropriate regularization in both space and time. Moreover, the very large scale nature of such problems in practice presents an enormous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Toluwani Okunola , Mirjeta Pasha , Misha Kilmer , Melina Freitag

This paper extends the recently introduced assignment flow approach for supervised image labeling to unsupervised scenarios where no labels are given. The resulting self-assignment flow takes a pairwise data affinity matrix as input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Matthias Zisler , Artjom Zern , Stefania Petra , Christoph Schnörr

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

We present a global optimization approach to optical flow estimation. The approach optimizes a classical optical flow objective over the full space of mappings between discrete grids. No descriptor matching is used. The highly regular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Qifeng Chen , Vladlen Koltun

State-of-the-art scene flow algorithms pursue the conflicting targets of accuracy, run time, and robustness. With the successful concept of pixel-wise matching and sparse-to-dense interpolation, we push the limits of scene flow estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Christian Unger , Georg Kuschk , Didier Stricker

Recent work has shown that optical flow estimation can be formulated as a supervised learning task and can be successfully solved with convolutional networks. Training of the so-called FlowNet was enabled by a large synthetically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Nikolaus Mayer , Eddy Ilg , Philip Häusser , Philipp Fischer , Daniel Cremers , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Depth and ego-motion estimations are essential for the localization and navigation of autonomous robots and autonomous driving. Recent studies make it possible to learn the per-pixel depth and ego-motion from the unlabeled monocular video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Jiquan Zhong , Shijie Zhao , Wenhua Wu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods…

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

Optical flow estimation with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has recently solved various tasks of computer vision successfully. In this paper we adapt a state-of-the-art approach for optical flow estimation to omnidirectional images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 André Apitzsch , Roman Seidel , Gangolf Hirtz

Transferring appearance to 3D assets using different representations of the appearance object - such as images or text - has garnered interest due to its wide range of applications in industries like gaming, augmented reality, and digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sayan Deb Sarkar , Sinisa Stekovic , Vincent Lepetit , Iro Armeni

Current optical flow and point-tracking methods rely heavily on synthetic datasets. Event cameras are novel vision sensors with advantages in challenging visual conditions, but state-of-the-art frame-based methods cannot be easily adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Friedhelm Hamann , Ziyun Wang , Ioannis Asmanis , Kenneth Chaney , Guillermo Gallego , Kostas Daniilidis

Various research studies indicate that action recognition performance highly depends on the types of motions being extracted and how accurate the human actions are represented. In this paper, we investigate different optical flow, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Lei Wang , Piotr Koniusz

We present a unifying framework to solve several computer vision problems with event cameras: motion, depth and optical flow estimation. The main idea of our framework is to find the point trajectories on the image plane that are best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Guillermo Gallego , Henri Rebecq , Davide Scaramuzza