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Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Recent optical flow methods focus on training deep networks to approach the problem. However, the training data used by them does not cover the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Anurag Ranjan , David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Siyu Tang , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

We systematically compare and analyze a set of key components in unsupervised optical flow to identify which photometric loss, occlusion handling, and smoothness regularization is most effective. Alongside this investigation we construct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Rico Jonschkowski , Austin Stone , Jonathan T. Barron , Ariel Gordon , Kurt Konolige , Anelia Angelova

Synthetic datasets are often used to pretrain end-to-end optical flow networks, due to the lack of a large amount of labeled, real-scene data. But major drops in accuracy occur when moving from synthetic to real scenes. How do we better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Zhiqi Zhang , Nitin Bansal , Changjiang Cai , Pan Ji , Qingan Yan , Xiangyu Xu , Yi Xu

Synthetic datasets play a critical role in pre-training CNN models for optical flow, but they are painstaking to generate and hard to adapt to new applications. To automate the process, we present AutoFlow, a simple and effective method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Deqing Sun , Daniel Vlasic , Charles Herrmann , Varun Jampani , Michael Krainin , Huiwen Chang , Ramin Zabih , William T. Freeman , Ce Liu

Scene flow represents the motion of points in the 3D space, which is the counterpart of the optical flow that represents the motion of pixels in the 2D image. However, it is difficult to obtain the ground truth of scene flow in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Xiaoyu Tian , Ruiqi Ding , Hesheng Wang

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Given this, we devise an optical flow algorithm specifically for human motion and show that it is superior to generic flow methods. Designing a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Anurag Ranjan , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

Unsupervised learning of optical flow, which leverages the supervision from view synthesis, has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods. However, the objective of unsupervised learning is likely to be unreliable in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Liang Liu , Jiangning Zhang , Ruifei He , Yong Liu , Yabiao Wang , Ying Tai , Donghao Luo , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang

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

Depth estimation is a fundamental issue in 4-D light field processing and analysis. Although recent supervised learning-based light field depth estimation methods have significantly improved the accuracy and efficiency of traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jing Jin , Junhui Hou

Event cameras rely on motion to obtain information about scene appearance. This means that appearance and motion are inherently linked: either both are present and recorded in the event data, or neither is captured. Previous works treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuang Guo , Friedhelm Hamann , Guillermo Gallego

While recent methods for motion and stereo estimation recover an unprecedented amount of details, such highly detailed structures are neither adequately reflected in the data of existing benchmarks nor their evaluation methodology. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Lukas Mehl , Jenny Schmalfuss , Azin Jahedi , Yaroslava Nalivayko , Andrés Bruhn

Existing optical flow methods are erroneous in challenging scenes, such as fog, rain, and night because the basic optical flow assumptions such as brightness and gradient constancy are broken. To address this problem, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Haipeng Li , Kunming Luo , Shuaicheng Liu

Due to the scarcity of annotated scene flow data, self-supervised scene flow learning in point clouds has attracted increasing attention. In the self-supervised manner, establishing correspondences between two point clouds to approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Ruibo Li , Guosheng Lin , Lihua Xie

Unsupervised optical flow methods typically lack reliable uncertainty estimation, limiting their robustness and interpretability. We propose U$^{2}$Flow, the first recurrent unsupervised framework that jointly estimates optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xunpei Sun , Wenwei Lin , Yi Chang , Gang Chen

Optical flow estimation is crucial for various applications in vision and robotics. As the difficulty of collecting ground truth optical flow in real-world scenarios, most of the existing methods of learning optical flow still adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Sheng-Chi Huang , Wei-Chen Chiu

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

In this paper we present a dense ground truth dataset of nonrigidly deforming real-world scenes. Our dataset contains both long and short video sequences, and enables the quantitatively evaluation for RGB based tracking and registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Wenbin Li , Darren Cosker , Zhihan Lv , Matthew Brown

Underwater imaging is fundamentally challenging due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, strong scattering from suspended particles, turbidity-induced blur, and non-uniform illumination. These effects impair standard cameras and make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Nick Truong , Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi

We present a method for synthesizing naturally looking images of multiple people interacting in a specific scenario. These images benefit from the advantages of synthetic data: being fully controllable and fully annotated with any type of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Igor Kviatkovsky , Nadav Bhonker , Gerard Medioni