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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

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, yet the reliance on expensive ground-truth annotations limits the scalability of supervised approaches. Although unsupervised and semi-supervised methods alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yixuan Luo , Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Yanjing Li , Nathan Jacobs

End-to-end trained convolutional neural networks have led to a breakthrough in optical flow estimation. The most recent advances focus on improving the optical flow estimation by improving the architecture and setting a new benchmark on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 D. B. de Jong , F. Paredes-Vallés , G. C. H. E. de Croon

Optical flow estimation is a classical yet challenging task in computer vision. One of the essential factors in accurately predicting optical flow is to alleviate occlusions between frames. However, it is still a thorny problem for current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shangkun Sun , Yuanqi Chen , Yu Zhu , Guodong Guo , Ge Li

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

We present a compact but effective CNN model for optical flow, called PWC-Net. PWC-Net has been designed according to simple and well-established principles: pyramidal processing, warping, and the use of a cost volume. Cast in a learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Deqing Sun , Xiaodong Yang , Ming-Yu Liu , Jan Kautz

We study the unsupervised learning of CNNs for optical flow estimation using proxy ground truth data. Supervised CNNs, due to their immense learning capacity, have shown superior performance on a range of computer vision problems including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yi Zhu , Zhenzhong Lan , Shawn Newsam , Alexander G. Hauptmann

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

Video frame interpolation aims to synthesize one or multiple frames between two consecutive frames in a video. It has a wide range of applications including slow-motion video generation, frame-rate up-scaling and developing video codecs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Saikat Dutta , Arulkumar Subramaniam , Anurag Mittal

In most of computer vision applications, motion blur is regarded as an undesirable artifact. However, it has been shown that motion blur in an image may have practical interests in fundamental computer vision problems. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Junsik Kim , Francois Rameau , Jae Won Cho , In So Kweon

We propose a semi-supervised model for detecting anomalies in videos inspiredby the Video Pixel Network [van den Oord et al., 2016]. VPN is a probabilisticgenerative model based on a deep neural network that estimates the discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Itamar Ben-Ari , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv

Computing optical flow is a fundamental problem in computer vision. However, deep learning-based optical flow techniques do not perform well for non-rigid movements such as those found in faces, primarily due to lack of the training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Muhannad Alkaddour , Usman Tariq , Abhinav Dhall

Given a scene, what is going to move, and in what direction will it move? Such a question could be considered a non-semantic form of action prediction. In this work, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) based approach for motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Jacob Walker , Abhinav Gupta , Martial Hebert

Despite the recent success of end-to-end learned representations, hand-crafted optical flow features are still widely used in video analysis tasks. To fill this gap, we propose TVNet, a novel end-to-end trainable neural network, to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Lijie Fan , Wenbing Huang , Chuang Gan , Stefano Ermon , Boqing Gong , Junzhou Huang

Optical flow estimation can be formulated as an end-to-end supervised learning problem, which yields estimates with a superior accuracy-runtime tradeoff compared to alternative methodology. In this paper, we make such networks estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Eddy Ilg , Özgün Çiçek , Silvio Galesso , Aaron Klein , Osama Makansi , Frank Hutter , Thomas Brox

Event cameras provide an advantage over traditional frame-based cameras when capturing fast-moving objects without a motion blur. They achieve this by recording changes in light intensity (known as events), thus allowing them to operate at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Wachirawit Ponghiran , Chamika Mihiranga Liyanagedera , Kaushik Roy

The total variation (TV) flow generates a scale-space representation of an image based on the TV functional. This gradient flow observes desirable features for images, such as sharp edges and enables spectral, scale, and texture analysis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Tamara G. Grossmann , Sören Dittmer , Yury Korolev , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The difficulty of annotating training data is a major obstacle to using CNNs for low-level tasks in video. Synthetic data often does not generalize to real videos, while unsupervised methods require heuristic losses. Proxy tasks can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Jonas Wulff , Michael J. Black

Recent work has shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be used to estimate optical flow with high quality and fast runtime. This makes them preferable for real-world applications. However, such networks require very large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Osama Makansi , Eddy Ilg , Thomas Brox

Depth estimation from light field (LF) images is a fundamental step for numerous applications. Recently, learning-based methods have achieved higher accuracy and efficiency than the traditional methods. However, it is costly to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam