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Dense image alignment from RGB-D images remains a critical issue for real-world applications, especially under challenging lighting conditions and in a wide baseline setting. In this paper, we propose a new framework to learn a pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Binbin Xu , Andrew J. Davison , Stefan Leutenegger

We introduce Probabilistic Coordinate Fields (PCFs), a novel geometric-invariant coordinate representation for image correspondence problems. In contrast to standard Cartesian coordinates, PCFs encode coordinates in correspondence-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Weiyue Zhao , Hao Lu , Xinyi Ye , Zhiguo Cao , Xin Li

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

Dense optical flow estimation is challenging when there are large displacements in a scene with heterogeneous motion dynamics, occlusion, and scene homogeneity. Traditional approaches to handle these challenges include hierarchical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Ali Salehi , Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian

Deep learning models frequently make incorrect predictions with high confidence when presented with test examples that are not well represented in their training dataset. We propose a novel and straightforward approach to estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Tiago Ramalho , Miguel Miranda

Flow matching has emerged as a simulation-free alternative to diffusion-based generative modeling, producing samples by solving an ODE whose time-dependent velocity field is learned along an interpolation between a simple source…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-10 Shivam Kumar , Yixin Wang , Lizhen Lin

Estimation of human shape and pose from a single image is a challenging task. It is an even more difficult problem to map the identified human shape onto a 3D human model. Existing methods map manually labelled human pixels in real 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mithun Lal , Anthony Paproki , Nariman Habili , Lars Petersson , Olivier Salvado , Clinton Fookes

Recently, regression-based methods have dominated the field of 3D human pose and shape estimation. Despite their promising results, a common issue is the misalignment between predictions and image observations, often caused by minor joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tom Wehrbein , Bodo Rosenhahn , Iain Matthews , Carsten Stoll

Diffusion and flow-based generative models have shown strong potential for image restoration. However, image denoising under unknown and varying noise conditions remains challenging, because the learned vector fields may become inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jigang Duan , Genwei Ma , Xu Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Ping Yang , Xing Zhao

Large displacement optical flow is an integral part of many computer vision tasks. Variational optical flow techniques based on a coarse-to-fine scheme interpolate sparse matches and locally optimize an energy model conditioned on colour,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

Establishing dense correspondences across image pairs is essential for tasks such as shape reconstruction and robot manipulation. In the challenging setting of matching across different categories, the function of an object, i.e., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Stefan Stojanov , Linan Zhao , Yunzhi Zhang , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Jiajun Wu

Modern methods for counting people in crowded scenes rely on deep networks to estimate people densities in individual images. As such, only very few take advantage of temporal consistency in video sequences, and those that do only impose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Weizhe Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Pascal Fua

We introduce Corr2Distrib, the first correspondence-based method which estimates a 6D camera pose distribution from an RGB image, explaining the observations. Indeed, symmetries and occlusions introduce visual ambiguities, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Asma Brazi , Boris Meden , Fabrice Mayran de Chamisso , Steve Bourgeois , Vincent Lepetit

A key technical challenge in performing 6D object pose estimation from RGB-D image is to fully leverage the two complementary data sources. Prior works either extract information from the RGB image and depth separately or use costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Chen Wang , Danfei Xu , Yuke Zhu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Cewu Lu , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese

Reconstructing 3D human shape and pose from monocular images is challenging despite the promising results achieved by the most recent learning-based methods. The commonly occurred misalignment comes from the facts that the mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hongwen Zhang , Jie Cao , Guo Lu , Wanli Ouyang , Zhenan Sun

Conventional training for optical flow and stereo depth models typically employs a uniform loss function across all pixels. However, this one-size-fits-all approach often overlooks the significant variations in learning difficulty among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Jamie Menjay Lin , Fatih Porikli

Feature matching is a challenging computer vision task that involves finding correspondences between two images of a 3D scene. In this paper we consider the dense approach instead of the more common sparse paradigm, thus striving to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Johan Edstedt , Ioannis Athanasiadis , Mårten Wadenbäck , Michael Felsberg

This paper deals with a challenging, frequently encountered, yet not properly investigated problem in two-frame optical flow estimation. That is, the input frames are compounds of two imaging layers -- one desired background layer of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Jiaolong Yang , Hongdong Li , Yuchao Dai , Robby T. Tan

The ability to predict future states is crucial to informed decision-making while interacting with dynamic environments. With cameras providing a prevalent and information-rich sensing modality, the problem of predicting future states from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Nikhil U. Shinde , Xiao Liang , Florian Richter , Michael C. Yip

In this paper, we aim at establishing accurate dense correspondences between a pair of images with overlapping field of view under challenging illumination variation, viewpoint changes, and style differences. Through an extensive ablation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Georgi Tinchev , Shuda Li , Kai Han , David Mitchell , Rigas Kouskouridas