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The b-posit, or bounded posit, is a variation of the posit format designed for high performance computing (HPC) and AI applications. Unlike traditional floating-point formats (floats), posits use variable-length fields for exponent scaling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Aditya Anirudh Jonnalagadda , Rishi Thotli , John L. Gustafson

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental and long-standing visual task. In this work, we present a novel method, dubbed HMAFlow, to improve optical flow estimation in challenging scenes, particularly those involving small objects. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Dianbo Ma , Kousuke Imamura , Ziyan Gao , Xiangjie Wang , Satoshi Yamane

Floating-point operations can significantly impact the accuracy and performance of scientific applications on large-scale parallel systems. Recently, an emerging floating-point format called Posit has attracted attention as an alternative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Steven W. D. Chien , Ivy B. Peng , Stefano Markidis

Lack of texture often causes ambiguity in matching, and handling this issue is an important challenge in optical flow estimation. Some methods insert stacked transformer modules that allow the network to use global information of cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jiawei Xu , Zongqing Lu , Qingmin Liao

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

Optical flow estimation is a well-studied topic for automated driving applications. Many outstanding optical flow estimation methods have been proposed, but they become erroneous when tested in challenging scenarios that are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Senthil Yogamani

The numerical simulation of interaction between free flow and porous media, governed by coupled Stokes/Navier--Stokes--Darcy flows, is critical for understanding fluid filtration and physiological transport, yet it is hindered by the high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Mengjia Chen , Changxin Qiu , Zhiping Mao , Menghui Xu

By exploiting the modular RISC-V ISA this paper presents the customization of instruction set with posit\textsuperscript{\texttrademark} arithmetic instructions to provide improved numerical accuracy, well-defined behavior and increased…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Federico Rossi , Francesco Urbani , Marco Cococcioni , Emanuele Ruffaldi , Sergio Saponara

Using a layered representation for motion estimation has the advantage of being able to cope with discontinuities and occlusions. In this paper, we learn to estimate optical flow by combining a layered motion representation with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Xi Zhang , Di Ma , Xu Ouyang , Shanshan Jiang , Lin Gan , Gady Agam

We present an evaluation of 32-bit POSIT arithmetic through its implementation as accelerators on FPGAs and GPUs. POSIT, a floating-point number format, adaptively changes the size of its fractional part. We developed hardware designs for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Naohito Nakasato , Yuki Murakami , Fumiya Kono , Maho Nakata

Posit arithmetic has emerged as a promising alternative to IEEE 754 floating-point representation, offering enhanced accuracy and dynamic range. However, division operations in posit systems remain challenging due to their inherent hardware…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Raul Murillo , Julio Villalba-Moreno , Alberto A. Del Barrio , Guillermo Botella

Nowadays, parallel computing is ubiquitous in several application fields, both in engineering and science. The computations rely on the floating-point arithmetic specified by the IEEE754 Standard. In this context, an elementary brick of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Farah Benmouhoub , Pierre-Loïc Garoche , Matthieu Martel

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is critical for a variety of real-world robotic applications. However, current learning-based methods often struggle to balance accuracy and computational efficiency: methods that achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhiyong Zhang , Aniket Gupta , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

The posit representation for real numbers is an alternative to the ubiquitous IEEE 754 floating-point standard. In this work, we present PERCIVAL, an application-level posit capable RISC-V core based on CVA6 that can execute all posit…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-08 David Mallasén , Raul Murillo , Alberto A. Del Barrio , Guillermo Botella , Luis Piñuel , Manuel Prieto

Evaluating the log-sum-exp function or the softmax function is a key step in many modern data science algorithms, notably in inference and classification. Because of the exponentials that these functions contain, the evaluation is prone to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Pierre Blanchard , Desmond J. Higham , Nicholas J. Higham

Owing to the failure of Dennard's scaling the last decade has seen a steep growth of prominent new paradigms leveraging opportunities in computer architecture. Two technologies of interest are Posit and RISC-V. Posit was introduced in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Sugandha Tiwari , Neel Gala , Chester Rebeiro , V. Kamakoti

We propose a homotopy continuation method called FLUX for approximating complicated probability density functions. It is based on progressive processing for smoothly morphing a given density into the desired one. Distributed ordinary…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Uwe D. Hanebeck

The scarcity of ground-truth labels poses one major challenge in developing optical flow estimation models that are both generalizable and robust. While current methods rely on data augmentation, they have yet to fully exploit the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Risheek Garrepalli , Jamie Menjay Lin , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

In modern computing units, division operations are generally slower than other arithmetic operations and require more resources, such as area and power, than multiplication. To reduce the delay, fast division algorithms use an initial…

Optical flow estimation is essential for video processing tasks, such as restoration and action recognition. The quality of videos is constantly increasing, with current standards reaching 8K resolution. However, optical flow methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Henrique Morimitsu , Xiaobin Zhu , Roberto M. Cesar , Xiangyang Ji , Xu-Cheng Yin