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We propose to incorporate feature correlation and sequential processing into dense optical flow estimation from event cameras. Modern frame-based optical flow methods heavily rely on matching costs computed from feature correlation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mathias Gehrig , Mario Millhäusler , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

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

Optical flow is inherently a 2D search problem, and thus the computational complexity grows quadratically with respect to the search window, making large displacements matching infeasible for high-resolution images. In this paper, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Haofei Xu , Jiaolong Yang , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang , Xin Tong

Optical flow is the pattern of apparent motion of objects in a scene. The computation of optical flow is a critical component in numerous computer vision tasks such as object detection, visual object tracking, and activity recognition.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-15 Muhammad Wasim Nawaz , Abdesselam Bouzerdoum , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Ghulam Abbas , Faizan Rashid

Modern large displacement optical flow algorithms usually use an initialization by either sparse descriptor matching techniques or dense approximate nearest neighbor fields. While the latter have the advantage of being dense, they have the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Christian Bailer , Bertram Taetz , Didier Stricker

Sparse representation-based classifiers have shown outstanding accuracy and robustness in image classification tasks even with the presence of intense noise and occlusion. However, it has been discovered that the performance degrades…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Xiaoxia Sun , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Trac D. Tran

We propose a novel approach for optical flow estimation , targeted at large displacements with significant oc-clusions. It consists of two steps: i) dense matching by edge-preserving interpolation from a sparse set of matches; ii)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Jerome Revaud , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Recent learning-based methods for event-based optical flow estimation utilize cost volumes for pixel matching but suffer from redundant computations and limited scalability to higher resolutions for flow refinement. In this work, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daikun Liu , Lei Cheng , Teng Wang , changyin Sun

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

While most scene flow methods use either variational optimization or a strong rigid motion assumption, we show for the first time that scene flow can also be estimated by dense interpolation of sparse matches. To this end, we find sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Georg Kuschk , Christian Bailer , Didier Stricker

In many applications it is important to estimate a fluid flow field from limited and possibly corrupt measurements. Current methods in flow estimation often use least squares regression to reconstruct the flow field, finding the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jared Callaham , Kazuki Maeda , Steven L. Brunton

Modern large displacement optical flow algorithms usually use an initialization by either sparse descriptor matching techniques or dense approximate nearest neighbor fields. While the latter have the advantage of being dense, they have the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Christian Bailer , Bertram Taetz , Didier Stricker

Establishing dense correspondences between a pair of images is an important and general problem. However, dense flow estimation is often inaccurate in the case of large displacements or homogeneous regions. For most applications and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Prune Truong , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Recently, the dense correlation volume method achieves state-of-the-art performance in optical flow. However, the correlation volume computation requires a lot of memory, which makes prediction difficult on high-resolution images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zihua Zheng , Ni Nie , Zhi Ling , Pengfei Xiong , Jiangyu Liu , Hao Wang , Jiankun Li

State-of-the-art neural network models estimate large displacement optical flow in multi-resolution and use warping to propagate the estimation between two resolutions. Despite their impressive results, it is known that there are two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Yao Lu , Jack Valmadre , Heng Wang , Juho Kannala , Mehrtash Harandi , Philip H. S. Torr

We propose a large displacement optical flow method that introduces a new strategy to compute a good local minimum of any optical flow energy functional. The method requires a given set of discrete matches, which can be extremely sparse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Roberto P. Palomares , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Coloma Ballester , Gloria Haro

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

Transferring image-based object detectors to the domain of videos remains a challenging problem. Previous efforts mostly exploit optical flow to propagate features across frames, aiming to achieve a good trade-off between accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Chaoxu Guo , Bin Fan , Jie Gu , Qian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Veronique Prinet , Chunhong Pan

Learning matching costs has been shown to be critical to the success of the state-of-the-art deep stereo matching methods, in which 3D convolutions are applied on a 4D feature volume to learn a 3D cost volume. However, this mechanism has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Jianyuan Wang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai , Kaihao Zhang , Pan Ji , Hongdong Li

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
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