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While deep neural networks take loose inspiration from neuroscience, it is an open question how seriously to take the analogies between artificial deep networks and biological neuronal systems. Interestingly, recent work has shown that deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-31 William Lotter , Gabriel Kreiman , David Cox

Before the deep learning revolution, many perception algorithms were based on runtime optimization in conjunction with a strong prior/regularization penalty. A prime example of this in computer vision is optical and scene flow. Supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Xueqian Li , Jhony Kaesemodel Pontes , Simon Lucey

3D scene flow estimation from point clouds is a low-level 3D motion perception task in computer vision. Flow embedding is a commonly used technique in scene flow estimation, and it encodes the point motion between two consecutive frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Guangming Wang , Yunzhe Hu , Zhe Liu , Yiyang Zhou , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan , Hesheng Wang

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms that learn a generative policy to sample discrete objects $x$ with non-negative reward $R(x)$. Learning objectives guarantee the GFlowNet samples $x$ from the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Max W. Shen , Emmanuel Bengio , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Andreas Loukas , Kyunghyun Cho , Tommaso Biancalani

In recent years, there have been a surge in applications of neural networks (NNs) in physical sciences. Although various algorithmic advances have been proposed, there are, thus far, limited number of studies that assess the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-17 Kai Fukami , Romit Maulik , Nesar Ramachandra , Koji Fukagata , Kunihiko Taira

We demonstrate that a deep neural network can significantly improve optical microscopy, enhancing its spatial resolution over a large field-of-view and depth-of-field. After its training, the only input to this network is an image acquired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yair Rivenson , Zoltan Gorocs , Harun Gunaydin , Yibo Zhang , Hongda Wang , Aydogan Ozcan

We present a neural network approach to compute stream functions, which are scalar functions with gradients orthogonal to a given vector field. As a result, isosurfaces of the stream function extract stream surfaces, which can be visualized…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Skylar Wolfgang Wurster , Hanqi Guo , Tom Peterka , Han-Wei Shen

A novel hybrid deep neural network architecture is designed to capture the spatial-temporal features of unsteady flows around moving boundaries directly from high-dimensional unsteady flow fields data. The hybrid deep neural network is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Renkun Han , Zhong Zhang , Yixing Wang , Ziyang Liu , Yang Zhang , Gang Chen

Occlusion is an inevitable and critical problem in unsupervised optical flow learning. Existing methods either treat occlusions equally as non-occluded regions or simply remove them to avoid incorrectness. However, the occlusion regions can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Kunming Luo , Chuan Wang , Nianjin Ye , Shuaicheng Liu , Jue Wang

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem of computer vision and has many applications in the fields of robot learning and autonomous driving. This paper reveals novel geometric laws of optical flow based on the insight and detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Guangming Wang , Shuaiqi Ren , Hesheng Wang

Recently, convolutional networks (convnets) have proven useful for predicting optical flow. Much of this success is predicated on the availability of large datasets that require expensive and involved data acquisition and laborious la-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Jason J. Yu , Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis

The optical flow of natural scenes is a combination of the motion of the observer and the independent motion of objects. Existing algorithms typically focus on either recovering motion and structure under the assumption of a purely static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Jonas Wulff , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Michael J. Black

Time-dependent flow fields are typically generated by a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method, which is an extremely time-consuming process. However, the latent relationship between the flow fields is governed by the Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-11 Heming Bai , Zhicheng Wang , Xuesen Chu , Jian Deng , Xin Bian

Video super-resolution (SR) aims to generate a sequence of high-resolution (HR) frames with plausible and temporally consistent details from their low-resolution (LR) counterparts. The generation of accurate correspondence plays a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo , Zaiping Lin , Xinpu Deng , Wei An

We present FlowIt, a novel architecture for optical flow estimation designed to robustly handle large pixel displacements. At its core, FlowIt leverages a hierarchical transformer architecture that captures extensive global context,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sadra Safadoust , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Fatma Güney

Estimating scene flow in RGB-D videos is attracting much interest of the computer vision researchers, due to its potential applications in robotics. The state-of-the-art techniques for scene flow estimation, typically rely on the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Ravi Kumar Thakur , Snehasis Mukherjee

Both optical flow and stereo disparities are image matches and can therefore benefit from joint training. Depth and 3D motion provide geometric rather than photometric information and can further improve optical flow. Accordingly, we design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuai Yuan , Carlo Tomasi

Synthetic datasets play a critical role in pre-training CNN models for optical flow, but they are painstaking to generate and hard to adapt to new applications. To automate the process, we present AutoFlow, a simple and effective method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Deqing Sun , Daniel Vlasic , Charles Herrmann , Varun Jampani , Michael Krainin , Huiwen Chang , Ramin Zabih , William T. Freeman , Ce Liu

This paper proposes an end-to-end trainable network, SegFlow, for simultaneously predicting pixel-wise object segmentation and optical flow in videos. The proposed SegFlow has two branches where useful information of object segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Jingchun Cheng , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Shengjin Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent learning-based methods for event-based optical flow estimation utilize cost volumes for pixel matching but suffer from redundant computations and limited scalability to higher resolutions for flow refinement. In this work, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daikun Liu , Lei Cheng , Teng Wang , changyin Sun