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Video prediction is a fundamental task for various downstream applications, including robotics and world modeling. Although general video prediction models have achieved remarkable performance in standard scenarios, occlusion is still an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Eliyas Suleyman , Paul Henderson , Eksan Firkat , Nicolas Pugeault

We propose MONet, a convolutional neural network that jointly detects motion boundaries (MBs) and occlusion regions (Occs) in video both forward and backward in time. Detection is difficult because optical flow is discontinuous along MBs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Hannah Halin Kim , Shuzhi Yu , Carlo Tomasi

Learning reliable motion representation between consecutive frames, such as optical flow, has proven to have great promotion to video understanding. However, the TV-L1 method, an effective optical flow solver, is time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaohang Yang , Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang

In this paper, we present a CNN-based fully unsupervised method for motion segmentation from optical flow. We assume that the input optical flow can be represented as a piecewise set of parametric motion models, typically, affine or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Etienne Meunier , Anaïs Badoual , Patrick Bouthemy

The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is integral to the functioning of power systems, aiming to optimize generation dispatch while adhering to technical and operational constraints. These constraints are far from straightforward; they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Andrew Rosemberg , Mathieu Tanneau , Bruno Fanzeres , Joaquim Garcia , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Optic flow is two dimensional, but no special qualities are attached to one or other of these dimensions. For binocular disparity, on the other hand, the terms 'horizontal' and 'vertical' disparities are commonly used. This is odd, since…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-14 Andrew Glennerster , Jenny C. A. Read

Photometric differences are widely used as supervision signals to train neural networks for estimating depth and camera pose from unlabeled monocular videos. However, this approach is detrimental for model optimization because occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Fei Wang , Jun Cheng , Penglei Liu

Imagining multiple consecutive frames given one single snapshot is challenging, since it is difficult to simultaneously predict diverse motions from a single image and faithfully generate novel frames without visual distortions. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Lu Sheng , Junting Pan , Jiaming Guo , Jing Shao , Xiaogang Wang , Chen Change Loy

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

In recent years, deep learning models have revolutionized medical image interpretation, offering substantial improvements in diagnostic accuracy. However, these models often struggle with challenging images where critical features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Pradeep Singh , Kishore Babu Nampalle , Uppala Vivek Narayan , Balasubramanian Raman

Extracting information on fluid motion directly from images is challenging. Fluid flow represents a complex dynamic system governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. General optical flow methods are typically designed for rigid body motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mingrui Zhang , Jianhong Wang , James Tlhomole , Matthew D. Piggott

Optical flow, which expresses pixel displacement, is widely used in many computer vision tasks to provide pixel-level motion information. However, with the remarkable progress of the convolutional neural network, recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ruibing Jin , Guosheng Lin , Changyun Wen , Jianliang Wang , Fayao Liu

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

When interacting with highly dynamic environments, scene flow allows autonomous systems to reason about the non-rigid motion of multiple independent objects. This is of particular interest in the field of autonomous driving, in which many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Himangi Mittal , Brian Okorn , David Held

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

Unsupervised video-based surgical instrument segmentation has the potential to accelerate the adoption of robot-assisted procedures by reducing the reliance on manual annotations. However, the generally low quality of optical flow in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yang Liu , Peiran Wu , Jiayu Huo , Gongyu Zhang , Zhen Yuan , Christos Bergeles , Rachel Sparks , Prokar Dasgupta , Alejandro Granados , Sebastien Ourselin

Advances in the image-based diagnostics of complex biological and manufacturing processes have brought unsupervised image segmentation to the forefront of enabling automated, on the fly decision making. However, most existing unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ashif Sikandar Iquebal , Satish Bukkapatnam

The matching function for the problem of stereo reconstruction or optical flow has been traditionally designed as a function of the distance between the features describing matched pixels. This approach works under assumption, that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Ľubor Ladický , Christian Häne , Marc Pollefeys

Cardiac motion tracking from echocardiography can be used to estimate and quantify myocardial motion within a cardiac cycle. It is a cost-efficient and effective approach for assessing myocardial function. However, ultrasound imaging has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Long Teng , Wei Feng , Menglong Zhu , Xinchao Li

Learning without supervision how to predict 3D scene flows from point clouds is essential to many perception systems. We propose a novel learning framework for this task which improves the necessary regularization. Relying on the assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Patrik Vacek , David Hurych , Karel Zimmermann , Patrick Perez , Tomas Svoboda