English
Related papers

Related papers: An Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation For LiDAR …

200 papers

In the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated increasing success at learning many computer vision tasks including dense estimation problems such as optical flow and stereo matching. However, the joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Rohan Saxena , René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Image-based 3D object detection is an inevitable part of autonomous driving because cheap onboard cameras are already available in most modern cars. Because of the accurate depth information, currently, most state-of-the-art 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Hendrik Königshof , Kun Li , Christoph Stiller

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

The interpretation of ego motion and scene change is a fundamental task for mobile robots. Optical flow information can be employed to estimate motion in the surroundings. Recently, unsupervised optical flow estimation has become a research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Hengli Wang , Rui Fan , Ming Liu

Lidar point cloud distortion from moving object is an important problem in autonomous driving, and recently becomes even more demanding with the emerging of newer lidars, which feature back-and-forth scanning patterns. Accurately estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wen Yang , Zheng Gong , Baifu Huang , Xiaoping Hong

Interpreting motion captured in image sequences is crucial for a wide range of computer vision applications. Typical estimation approaches include optical flow (OF), which approximates the apparent motion instantaneously in a scene, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Tanner D. Harms , Steven L. Brunton , Beverley J. McKeon

LiDAR scene flow estimation is essential for autonomous driving, as it provides 3D motion for each point. Self-supervised approaches use static-dynamic classification to mitigate the imbalance between static and dynamic points, deriving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Youngdong Jang , Gyeongrok Oh , Jong Wook Kim , Hyunju Ryu , Hyung-gun Chi , SeungHyeon Kim , Seungryong Kim , Jonghyun Choi , Sangpil Kim

Scene flow provides crucial motion information for autonomous driving. Recent LiDAR scene flow models utilize the rigid-motion assumption at the instance level, assuming objects are rigid bodies. However, these instance-level methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jialong Wu , Marco Braun , Dominic Spata , Matthias Rottmann

Modeling scene geometry using implicit neural representation has revealed its advantages in accuracy, flexibility, and low memory usage. Previous approaches have demonstrated impressive results using color or depth images but still have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Dongyu Yan , Xiaoyang Lyu , Jieqi Shi , Yi Lin

We present CompactFlowNet, the first real-time mobile neural network for optical flow prediction, which involves determining the displacement of each pixel in an initial frame relative to the corresponding pixel in a subsequent frame.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Andrei Znobishchev , Valerii Filev , Oleg Kudashev , Nikita Orlov , Humphrey Shi

LiDAR-captured point clouds are often considered the gold standard in active 3D reconstruction. While their accuracy is exceptional in flat regions, the capturing is susceptible to miss small geometric structures and may fail with dark,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Svenja Strobel , Matthias Innmann , Bernhard Egger , Marc Stamminger , Linus Franke

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

Collecting real-world optical flow datasets is a formidable challenge due to the high cost of labeling. A shortage of datasets significantly constrains the real-world performance of optical flow models. Building virtual datasets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Miaojie Feng , Longliang Liu , Hao Jia , Gangwei Xu , Xin Yang

Deep learning approaches have achieved great success in addressing the problem of optical flow estimation. The keys to success lie in the use of cost volume and coarse-to-fine flow inference. However, the matching problem becomes ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Tak-Wai Hui , Chen Change Loy

Exploiting past 3D LiDAR scans to predict future point clouds is a promising method for autonomous mobile systems to realize foresighted state estimation, collision avoidance, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benedikt Mersch , Xieyuanli Chen , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Scene flow estimation is a long-standing problem in computer vision, where the goal is to find the 3D motion of a scene from its consecutive observations. Recently, there have been efforts to compute the scene flow from 3D point clouds. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Itai Lang , Dror Aiger , Forrester Cole , Shai Avidan , Michael Rubinstein

In recent years, the fusion of camera data with LiDAR measurements has emerged as a powerful approach to enhance spatial understanding. This study introduces a novel, hardware-agnostic methodology that generates colourised point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pasindu Ranasinghe , Dibyayan Patra , Bikram Banerjee , Simit Raval

We propose a continuous optimization method for solving dense 3D scene flow problems from stereo imagery. As in recent work, we represent the dynamic 3D scene as a collection of rigidly moving planar segments. The scene flow problem then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Zhaoyang Lv , Chris Beall , Pablo F. Alcantarilla , Fuxin Li , Zsolt Kira , Frank Dellaert

We propose a novel scene flow estimation approach to capture and infer 3D motions from point clouds. Estimating 3D motions for point clouds is challenging, since a point cloud is unordered and its density is significantly non-uniform. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Bing Li , Cheng Zheng , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

LiDAR point clouds contain measurements of complicated natural scenes and can be used to update digital elevation models, glacial monitoring, detecting faults and measuring uplift detecting, forest inventory, detect shoreline and beach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 F. Patricia Medina , Randy Paffenroth