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Unsupervised anomaly detection and localization is crucial to the practical application when collecting and labeling sufficient anomaly data is infeasible. Most existing representation-based approaches extract normal image features with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jiawei Yu , Ye Zheng , Xiang Wang , Wei Li , Yushuang Wu , Rui Zhao , Liwei Wu

Optical flow estimation has made great progress, but usually suffers from degradation under adverse weather. Although semi/full-supervised methods have made good attempts, the domain shift between the synthetic and real adverse weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Hanyu Zhou , Yi Chang , Gang Chen , Luxin Yan

In the anomaly detection field, the scarcity of anomalous samples has directed the current research emphasis towards unsupervised anomaly detection. While these unsupervised anomaly detection methods offer convenience, they also overlook…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Shunfeng Wang , Yueyang Li , Haichi Luo , Chenyang Bi

The performance of optical flow algorithms greatly depends on the specifics of the content and the application for which it is used. Existing and well established optical flow datasets are limited to rather particular contents from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gregory Schröder , Tobias Senst , Erik Bochinski , Thomas Sikora

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

Estimating motion in videos is an essential computer vision problem with many downstream applications, including controllable video generation and robotics. Current solutions are primarily trained using synthetic data or require tuning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Stefan Stojanov , David Wendt , Seungwoo Kim , Rahul Venkatesh , Kevin Feigelis , Jiajun Wu , Daniel LK Yamins

This paper deals with the scarcity of data for training optical flow networks, highlighting the limitations of existing sources such as labeled synthetic datasets or unlabeled real videos. Specifically, we introduce a framework to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

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

Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

In this paper, we propose an unsupervised framework based on normalizing flows that harmonizes MR images to mimic the distribution of the source domain. The proposed framework consists of three steps. First, a shallow harmonizer network is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Farzad Beizaee , Christian Desrosiers , Gregory A. Lodygensky , Jose Dolz

Optical flow estimation is crucial for various applications in vision and robotics. As the difficulty of collecting ground truth optical flow in real-world scenarios, most of the existing methods of learning optical flow still adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Sheng-Chi Huang , Wei-Chen Chiu

High-precision micromanipulation techniques, including optical tweezers and hydrodynamic trapping, have garnered wide-spread interest. Recent advances in optofluidic multiplexed assembly and microrobotics demonstrate significant progress,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-03 Elena Erben , Ivan Saraev , Weida Liao , Fan Nan , Eric Lauga , Moritz Kreysing

We propose a continuous optimization method for solving dense 3D scene flow problems from stereo imagery. As in recent work, we represent the dynamic 3D scene as a collection of rigidly moving planar segments. The scene flow problem then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Zhaoyang Lv , Chris Beall , Pablo F. Alcantarilla , Fuxin Li , Zsolt Kira , Frank Dellaert

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

Underwater Salient Object Detection (USOD) faces significant challenges, including underwater image quality degradation and domain gaps. Existing methods tend to ignore the physical principles of underwater imaging or simply treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Runting Li , Shijie Lian , Hua Li , Yutong Li , Wenhui Wu , Sam Kwong

Optical flow estimation is a challenging problem remaining unsolved. Recent deep learning based optical flow models have achieved considerable success. However, these models often train networks from the scratch on standard optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Qiaole Dong , Chenjie Cao , Yanwei Fu

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

Optical flow refers to the visual motion observed between two consecutive images. Since the degree of freedom is typically much larger than the constraints imposed by the image observations, the straightforward formulation of optical flow…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-21 Jie Sun , Fernando J. Quevedo , Erik Bollt

Real-time motion detection in non-stationary scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. These challenges degrade the performance of the existing methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Zheng Zhu , Jiagang Zhu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been found to have great potential in optical flow problems thanks to an abundance of data available for training a deep network. The displacement estimation step in UltraSound Elastography (USE) can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-06 Ali K. Z. Tehrani , Morteza Mirzaei , Hassan Rivaz