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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

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is a crucial component in various applications, including localization and mapping in robotics, object tracking, and activity recognition in computer vision. While recent learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiyong Zhang , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

This article describes the implementation of the joint motion estimation and image reconstruction framework presented by Burger, Dirks and Sch\"onlieb and extends this framework to large-scale motion between consecutive image frames. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Hendrik Dirks

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

Accurate estimation of large displacement optical flow remains a critical challenge. Existing methods typically rely on iterative local search or/and domain-specific fine-tuning, which severely limits their performance in large displacement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Dingxi Zhang , Fangjinhua Wang , Marc Pollefeys , Haofei Xu

Optical Flow (OF) is the movement pattern of pixels or edges that is caused in a visual scene by the relative motion between an agent and a scene. OF is used in a wide range of computer vision algorithms and robotics applications. While the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Jonas Kühne , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Recent advancements in video restoration have focused on recovering high-quality video frames from low-quality inputs. Compared with static images, the performance of video restoration significantly depends on efficient exploitation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ranjith Merugu , Mohammad Sameer Suhail , Akshay P Sarashetti , Venkata Bharath Reddy Reddem , Pankaj Kumar Bajpai , Amit Satish Unde

Optical flow estimation remains challenging due to untextured areas, motion boundaries, occlusions, and more. Thus, the estimated flow is not equally reliable across the image. To that end, post-hoc confidence measures have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Anne S. Wannenwetsch , Margret Keuper , Stefan Roth

Temporal feature extraction is an important issue in video-based action recognition. Optical flow is a popular method to extract temporal feature, which produces excellent performance thanks to its capacity of capturing pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yuecong Xu , Jianfei Yang , Kezhi Mao , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

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

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

Optical flow is a crucial component of the feature space for early visual processing of dynamic scenes especially in new applications such as self-driving vehicles, drones and autonomous robots. The dynamic vision sensors are well suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Himanshu Akolkar , SioHoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

Deep learning approaches have achieved great success in addressing the problem of optical flow estimation. The keys to success lie in the use of cost volume and coarse-to-fine flow inference. However, the matching problem becomes ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Tak-Wai Hui , Chen Change Loy

Optical flow estimation is a classical yet challenging task in computer vision. One of the essential factors in accurately predicting optical flow is to alleviate occlusions between frames. However, it is still a thorny problem for current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shangkun Sun , Yuanqi Chen , Yu Zhu , Guodong Guo , Ge Li

We present a new lightweight CNN-based algorithm for multi-frame optical flow estimation. Our solution introduces a double recurrence over spatial scale and time through repeated use of a generic "STaR" (SpatioTemporal Recurrent) cell. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Pierre Godet , Alexandre Boulch , Aurélien Plyer , Guy Le Besnerais

Estimating per-pixel motion between video frames, known as optical flow, is a long-standing problem in video understanding and analysis. Most contemporary optical flow techniques largely focus on addressing the cross-image matching with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Kunming Luo , Xin Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Recent advances in optical flow estimation have prioritized accuracy at the cost of growing GPU memory consumption, particularly for high-resolution (FullHD) inputs. We introduce MEMFOF, a memory-efficient multi-frame optical flow method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Vladislav Bargatin , Egor Chistov , Alexander Yakovenko , Dmitriy Vatolin

Existing recurrent optical flow estimation networks are computationally expensive since they use a fixed large number of iterations to update the flow field for each sample. An efficient network should skip iterations when the flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ri Cheng , Ruian He , Xuhao Jiang , Shili Zhou , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

We propose a new multi-frame method for efficiently computing scene flow (dense depth and optical flow) and camera ego-motion for a dynamic scene observed from a moving stereo camera rig. Our technique also segments out moving objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Tatsunori Taniai , Sudipta N. Sinha , Yoichi Sato

The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is integral to the functioning of power systems, aiming to optimize generation dispatch while adhering to technical and operational constraints. These constraints are far from straightforward; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Andrew Rosemberg , Mathieu Tanneau , Bruno Fanzeres , Joaquim Garcia , Pascal Van Hentenryck