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Optical flow is the motion of a pixel between at least two consecutive video frames and can be estimated through an end-to-end trainable convolutional neural network. To this end, large training datasets are required to improve the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Roman Seidel , André Apitzsch , Gangolf Hirtz

Unsupervised video-based surgical instrument segmentation has the potential to accelerate the adoption of robot-assisted procedures by reducing the reliance on manual annotations. However, the generally low quality of optical flow in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yang Liu , Peiran Wu , Jiayu Huo , Gongyu Zhang , Zhen Yuan , Christos Bergeles , Rachel Sparks , Prokar Dasgupta , Alejandro Granados , Sebastien Ourselin

In this work we review the coarse-to-fine spatial feature pyramid concept, which is used in state-of-the-art optical flow estimation networks to make exploration of the pixel flow search space computationally tractable and efficient. Within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Markus Hofinger , Samuel Rota Bulò , Lorenzo Porzi , Arno Knapitsch , Thomas Pock , Peter Kontschieder

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Given this, we devise an optical flow algorithm specifically for human motion and show that it is superior to generic flow methods. Designing a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Anurag Ranjan , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

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

Most of current Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based methods for optical flow estimation focus on learning optical flow on synthetic datasets with groundtruth, which is not practical. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Shuosen Guan , Haoxin Li , Wei-Shi Zheng

Inaccurate optical flow estimates in and near occluded regions, and out-of-boundary regions are two of the current significant limitations of optical flow estimation algorithms. Recent state-of-the-art optical flow estimation algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Fisseha Admasu Ferede , Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian

We address the unsupervised learning of several interconnected problems in low-level vision: single view depth prediction, camera motion estimation, optical flow, and segmentation of a video into the static scene and moving regions. Our key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Anurag Ranjan , Varun Jampani , Lukas Balles , Kihwan Kim , Deqing Sun , Jonas Wulff , Michael J. Black

The importance and demands of visual scene understanding have been steadily increasing along with the active development of autonomous systems. Consequently, there has been a large amount of research dedicated to semantic segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

We present FlowSeek, a novel framework for optical flow requiring minimal hardware resources for training. FlowSeek marries the latest advances on the design space of optical flow networks with cutting-edge single-image depth foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi

CNN-based optical flow estimation has attracted attention recently, mainly due to its impressively high frame rates. These networks perform well on synthetic datasets, but they are still far behind the classical methods in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Nima Sedaghat , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

Novel experimental modalities acquire spatially resolved velocity measurements for steady state and transient flows which are of interest for engineering and biological applications. One of the drawbacks of such high resolution velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-31 H. Egger , T. Seitz , C. Tropea

This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in the fundamental understanding and active control of quantum fluids of light in nonlinear optical systems. In presence of effective photon-photon interactions induced by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-25 Iacopo Carusotto , Cristiano Ciuti

Learning reliable motion representation between consecutive frames, such as optical flow, has proven to have great promotion to video understanding. However, the TV-L1 method, an effective optical flow solver, is time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaohang Yang , Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang

In this paper, we consider the task of unsupervised object discovery in videos. Previous works have shown promising results via processing optical flows to segment objects. However, taking flow as input brings about two drawbacks. First,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Shuangrui Ding , Weidi Xie , Yabo Chen , Rui Qian , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

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

The performance of learning-based denoising largely depends on clean supervision. However, it is difficult to obtain clean images in many scenes. On the contrary, the capture of multiple noisy frames for the same field of view is available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Lujia Jin , Shi Zhao , Lei Zhu , Qian Chen , Yanye Lu

Scene flow estimation is a foundational task for many robotic applications, including robust dynamic object detection, automatic labeling, and sensor synchronization. Two types of approaches to the problem have evolved: 1) Supervised and 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 David T. Hoffmann , Syed Haseeb Raza , Hanqiu Jiang , Denis Tananaev , Steffen Klingenhoefer , Martin Meinke

The FlowNet demonstrated that optical flow estimation can be cast as a learning problem. However, the state of the art with regard to the quality of the flow has still been defined by traditional methods. Particularly on small displacements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Eddy Ilg , Nikolaus Mayer , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Video restoration and enhancement are critical not only for improving visual quality, but also as essential pre-processing steps to boost the performance of a wide range of downstream computer vision tasks. This survey presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Alexandra Malyugina , Yini Li , Joanne Lin , Nantheera Anantrasirichai