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Recent works on optical flow estimation use neural networks to predict the flow field that maps positions of one image to positions of the other. These networks consist of a feature extractor, a correlation volume, and finally several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Leyla Mirvakhabova , Hong Cai , Jisoo Jeong , Hanno Ackermann , Farhad Zanjani , Fatih Porikli

An important tool for experimental fluids mechanics research is Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). Several robust methodologies have been proposed to perform the estimation of velocity field from the images, however, alternative methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Efraín Magaña , Francisco Sahli Costabal , Wernher Brevis

We present a method for estimating dense continuous-time optical flow from event data. Traditional dense optical flow methods compute the pixel displacement between two images. Due to missing information, these approaches cannot recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mathias Gehrig , Manasi Muglikar , Davide Scaramuzza

Standard video codecs rely on optical flow to guide inter-frame prediction: pixels from reference frames are moved via motion vectors to predict target video frames. We propose to learn binary motion codes that are encoded based on an input…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 André Nortje , Herman A. Engelbrecht , Herman Kamper

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

Dense ground displacement measurements are crucial for geological studies but are impractical to collect directly. Traditionally, displacement fields are estimated using patch matching on optical satellite images from different acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Juliette Bertrand , Sophie Giffard-Roisin , James Hollingsworth , Julien Mairal

Optical flow estimation is one of the fundamental tasks in low-level computer vision, which describes the pixel-wise displacement and can be used in many other tasks. From the apparent aspect, the optical flow can be viewed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yuhao Cheng , Siru Zhang , Yiqiang Yan

We extend the concept of optical flow with spatiotemporal regularisation to a dynamic non-Euclidean setting. Optical flow is traditionally computed from a sequence of flat images. The purpose of this paper is to introduce variational motion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Clemens Kirisits , Lukas F. Lang , Otmar Scherzer

Video deblurring is a challenging problem as the blur is complex and usually caused by the combination of camera shakes, object motions, and depth variations. Optical flow can be used for kernel estimation since it predicts motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Wenqi Ren , Jinshan Pan , Xiaochun Cao , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

It is hard to estimate optical flow given a realworld video sequence with camera shake and other motion blur. In this paper, we first investigate the blur parameterization for video footage using near linear motion elements. we then combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Wenbin Li , Yang Chen , JeeHang Lee , Gang Ren , Darren Cosker

In this work, we extract the optical flow field corresponding to moving objects from an image sequence of a scene impacted by atmospheric turbulence \emph{and} captured from a moving camera. Our procedure first computes the optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nicholas Ferrante , Jerome Gilles , Shibin Parameswaran

Monocular vision-based navigation for automated driving is a challenging task due to the lack of enough information to compute temporal relationships among objects on the road. Optical flow is an option to obtain temporal information from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Linda Capito , Keith Redmill , Umit Ozguner

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

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

Optical flow captures the motion of pixels in an image sequence over time, providing information about movement, depth, and environmental structure. Flying insects utilize this information to navigate and avoid obstacles, allowing them to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yu Hu , Yuang Zhang , Yunlong Song , Yang Deng , Feng Yu , Linzuo Zhang , Weiyao Lin , Danping Zou , Wenxian Yu

We address the problem of joint optical flow and camera motion estimation in rigid scenes by incorporating geometric constraints into an unsupervised deep learning framework. Unlike existing approaches which rely on brightness constancy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Shihao Jiang , Dylan Campbell , Miaomiao Liu , Stephen Gould , Richard Hartley

Despite significant progress in image-based 3D scene flow estimation, the performance of such approaches has not yet reached the fidelity required by many applications. Simultaneously, these applications are often not restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Aseem Behl , Despoina Paschalidou , Simon Donné , Andreas Geiger

We introduce a way to learn to estimate a scene representation from a single image by predicting a low-dimensional subspace of optical flow for each training example, which encompasses the variety of possible camera and object movement.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Richard Strong Bowen , Richard Tucker , Ramin Zabih , Noah Snavely

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