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Unsupervised optical flow methods typically lack reliable uncertainty estimation, limiting their robustness and interpretability. We propose U$^{2}$Flow, the first recurrent unsupervised framework that jointly estimates optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xunpei Sun , Wenwei Lin , Yi Chang , Gang Chen

Panoramic optical flow enables a comprehensive understanding of temporal dynamics across wide fields of view. However, severe distortions caused by sphere-to-plane projections, such as the equirectangular projection (ERP), significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Longliang Liu , Miaojie Feng , Junda Cheng , Jijun Xiang , Xuan Zhu , Xin Yang

Optical flow is inherently a 2D search problem, and thus the computational complexity grows quadratically with respect to the search window, making large displacements matching infeasible for high-resolution images. In this paper, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Haofei Xu , Jiaolong Yang , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang , Xin Tong

This paper introduces feature gradient flow, a new technique for interpreting deep learning models in terms of features that are understandable to humans. The gradient flow of a model locally defines nonlinear coordinates in the input data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Yinzhu Jin , Jonathan C. Garneau , P. Thomas Fletcher

Recent optical flow estimation methods often employ local cost sampling from a dense all-pairs correlation volume. This results in quadratic computational and memory complexity in the number of pixels. Although an alternative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Karlis Martins Briedis , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

Motion is a dominant cue in automated driving systems. Optical flow is typically computed to detect moving objects and to estimate depth using triangulation. In this paper, our motivation is to leverage the existing dense optical flow to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hazem Rashed , Senthil Yogamani , Ahmad El-Sallab , Pavel Krizek , Mohamed El-Helw

While deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown extraordinary capability of modelling specific noise and denoising, they still perform poorly on real-world noisy images. The main reason is that the real-world noise is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Yiyun Zhao , Zhuqing Jiang , Aidong Men , Guodong Ju

Remote sensing semantic segmentation aims to assign automatically each pixel on aerial images with specific label. In this letter, we proposed a new module, called improved-flow warp module (IFWM), to adjust semantic feature maps across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yinjie Zhang , Yi Liu , Wei Guo

Recovering noise-covered details from low-light images is challenging, and the results given by previous methods leave room for improvement. Recent diffusion models show realistic and detailed image generation through a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Dewei Zhou , Zongxin Yang , Yi Yang

Despite recent advances, estimating optical flow remains a challenging problem in the presence of illumination change, large occlusions or fast movement. In this paper, we propose a novel optical flow estimation framework which can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Inchul Choi , Arunava Banerjee

We study the problem of self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation from real large-scale raw point cloud sequences, which is crucial to various tasks like trajectory prediction or instance segmentation. In the absence of ground truth scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Patrik Vacek , David Hurych , Tomáš Svoboda , Karel Zimmermann

Cost volumes are used in every modern optical flow estimator, but due to their computational and space complexity, they are often a limiting factor regarding both processing speed and the resolution of input frames. Motivated by our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Simon Kiefhaber , Stefan Roth , Simone Schaub-Meyer

We present CoopNet, an approach that improves the cooperation of co-trained networks by dynamically adapting the apportionment of gradient, to ensure equitable learning progress. It is applied to motion-aware self-supervised prediction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Marwane Hariat , Antoine Manzanera , David Filliat

Recent semi-dense image matching methods have achieved remarkable success, but two long-standing issues still impair their performance. At the coarse stage, the over-exclusion issue of their mutual nearest neighbor (MNN) matching layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ke Jin , Jiming Chen , Qi Ye

In optical flow estimation task, coarse-to-fine (C2F) warping strategy is widely used to deal with the large displacement problem and provides efficiency and speed. However, limited by the small search range between the first images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Suihanjin Yu , Youmin Zhang , Chen Wang , Xiao Bai , Liang Zhang , Edwin R. Hancock

We consider a class of optimization problems on the space of probability measures motivated by the mean-field approach to studying neural networks. Such problems can be solved by constructing continuous-time gradient flows that converge to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Petra Lazić , Linshan Liu , Mateusz B. Majka

Unsupervised optical flow estimation is especially hard near occlusions and motion boundaries and in low-texture regions. We show that additional information such as semantics and domain knowledge can help better constrain this problem. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Shuai Yuan , Shuzhi Yu , Hannah Kim , Carlo Tomasi

Recently, the joint design of optical systems and downstream algorithms is showing significant potential. However, existing rays-described methods are limited to optimizing geometric degradation, making it difficult to fully represent the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zheng Ren , Jingwen Zhou , Wenguan Zhang , Jiapu Yan , Bingkun Chen , Huajun Feng , Shiqi Chen

We propose a novel end-to-end deep scene flow model, called PointPWC-Net, on 3D point clouds in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Flow computed at the coarse level is upsampled and warped to a finer level, enabling the algorithm to accommodate for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Wenxuan Wu , Zhiyuan Wang , Zhuwen Li , Wei Liu , Li Fuxin

Event cameras have recently gained significant traction since they open up new avenues for low-latency and low-power solutions to complex computer vision problems. To unlock these solutions, it is necessary to develop algorithms that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Federico Paredes-Vallés , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E. de Croon