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Diffusion models approximate the denoising distribution as a Gaussian and predict its mean, whereas flow matching models reparameterize the Gaussian mean as flow velocity. However, they underperform in few-step sampling due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hansheng Chen , Kai Zhang , Hao Tan , Zexiang Xu , Fujun Luan , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Sai Bi

This paper presents a novel method for detecting scene changes from a pair of images with a difference of camera viewpoints using a dense optical flow based change detection network. In the case that camera poses of input images are fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Ken Sakurada , Weimin Wang , Nobuo Kawaguchi , Ryosuke Nakamura

Many applications like audio and image processing show that sparse representations are a powerful and efficient signal modeling technique. Finding an optimal dictionary that generates at the same time the sparsest representations of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Paul Irofti , Cristian Rusu , Andrei Pătraşcu

Stereo matching and flow estimation are two essential tasks for scene understanding, spatially in 3D and temporally in motion. Existing approaches have been focused on the unsupervised setting due to the limited resource to obtain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Hsueh-Ying Lai , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu

Most recent diffusion-based methods still show a large gap compared to non-diffusion methods for video frame interpolation, in both accuracy and efficiency. Most of them formulate the problem as a denoising procedure in latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yang Hai , Guo Wang , Tan Su , Wenjie Jiang , Yinlin Hu

Exploring robust and efficient association methods has always been an important issue in multiple-object tracking (MOT). Although existing tracking methods have achieved impressive performance, congestion and frequent occlusions still pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zelin Liu , Xinggang Wang , Cheng Wang , Wenyu Liu , Xiang Bai

Sparse representation of 3D images is considered within the context of data reduction. The goal is to produce high quality approximations of 3D images using fewer elementary components than the number of intensity points in the 3D array.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 Laura Rebollo-Neira , Daniel Whitehouse

Occupancy estimation has become a prominent task in 3D computer vision, particularly within the autonomous driving community. In this paper, we present a novel approach to occupancy estimation, termed GaussianFlowOcc, which is inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Simon Boeder , Fabian Gigengack , Benjamin Risse

Scene flow describes 3D motion in a 3D scene. It can either be modeled as a single task, or it can be reconstructed from the auxiliary tasks of stereo depth and optical flow estimation. While the second method can achieve real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Classical approaches for estimating optical flow have achieved rapid progress in the last decade. However, most of them are too slow to be applied in real-time video analysis. Due to the great success of deep learning, recent work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Depth map estimation is a crucial task in computer vision, and new approaches have recently emerged taking advantage of light fields, as this new imaging modality captures much more information about the angular direction of light rays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Yang Chen , Martin Alain , Aljosa Smolic

Vision-based perception for autonomous driving requires an explicit modeling of a 3D space, where 2D latent representations are mapped and subsequent 3D operators are applied. However, operating on dense latent spaces introduces a cubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Pin Tang , Zhongdao Wang , Guoqing Wang , Jilai Zheng , Xiangxuan Ren , Bailan Feng , Chao Ma

Rapid and low power computation of optical flow (OF) is potentially useful in robotics. The dynamic vision sensor (DVS) event camera produces quick and sparse output, and has high dynamic range, but conventional OF algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Min Liu , Tobi Delbruck

We tackle the challenging task of few-shot segmentation in this work. It is essential for few-shot semantic segmentation to fully utilize the support information. Previous methods typically adopt masked average pooling over the support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Weide Liu , Chi Zhang , Henghui Ding , Tzu-Yi Hung , Guosheng Lin

Inspired by frame-based methods, state-of-the-art event-based optical flow networks rely on the explicit construction of correlation volumes, which are expensive to compute and store, rendering them unsuitable for robotic applications with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yilun Wu , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Event cameras capture brightness changes asynchronously with microsecond resolution, yet existing optical flow methods fail to fully exploit this temporal continuity. Frame-based approaches impose artificial accumulation latency and suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gunwoo Jeon , Chaesong Park , Jongwoo Lim

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have transformed image generation with their impressive fidelity and diversity. We show that they also excel in estimating optical flow and monocular depth, surprisingly, without task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Saurabh Saxena , Charles Herrmann , Junhwa Hur , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , Deqing Sun , David J. Fleet

Previous dominant methods for scene flow estimation focus mainly on input from two consecutive frames, neglecting valuable information in the temporal domain. While recent trends shift towards multi-frame reasoning, they suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yushan Zhang , Yixi Cai , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

We present a machine-learning based Volume Of Fluid method to simulate multi-material flows on three-dimensional domains. One of the novelties of the method is that the flux fraction is computed by evaluating a previously trained neural…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Moreno Pintore , Bruno Després

We present a stereo-based dense mapping algorithm for large-scale dynamic urban environments. In contrast to other existing methods, we simultaneously reconstruct the static background, the moving objects, and the potentially moving but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Peidong Liu , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger