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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

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

Optical flow is a useful input for various applications, including 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, tracking, and structure-from-motion. Despite its utility, the field of dense long-term tracking, especially over wide baselines, has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Tomáš Jelínek , Jonáš Šerých , Jiří Matas

Understanding airflow around a drone is critical for performing advanced maneuvers while maintaining flight stability. Recent research has worked to understand this flow by employing 2D and 3D flow sensors to measure flow from a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Teresa A. Kent , Sarah Bergbreiter

We study the unsupervised learning of CNNs for optical flow estimation using proxy ground truth data. Supervised CNNs, due to their immense learning capacity, have shown superior performance on a range of computer vision problems including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yi Zhu , Zhenzhong Lan , Shawn Newsam , Alexander G. Hauptmann

We present FlowIt, a novel architecture for optical flow estimation designed to robustly handle large pixel displacements. At its core, FlowIt leverages a hierarchical transformer architecture that captures extensive global context,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sadra Safadoust , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Fatma Güney

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

Lines provide the significantly richer geometric structural information about the environment than points, so lines are widely used in recent Visual Odometry (VO) works. Since VO with lines use line tracking results to locate and map, line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Meixiang Quan , Zheng Chai , Xiao Liu

Visually impaired persons find it difficult to know about their surroundings while walking on a road. Walking sticks used by them can only give them information about the obstacles in the stick's proximity. Moreover, it is mostly effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Shwetang Dubey , Alok Ranjan Sahoo , Pavan Chakraborty

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

Dense optical flow estimation plays a key role in many robotic vision tasks. In the past few years, with the advent of deep learning, we have witnessed great progress in optical flow estimation. However, current networks often consist of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Lingtong Kong , Chunhua Shen , Jie Yang

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

In moving camera videos, motion segmentation is commonly performed using the image plane motion of pixels, or optical flow. However, objects that are at different depths from the camera can exhibit different optical flows even if they share…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Manjunath Narayana , Allen Hanson , Erik Learned-Miller

Recent works on optical flow estimation use neural networks to predict the flow field that maps positions of one image to positions of the other. These networks consist of a feature extractor, a correlation volume, and finally several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Leyla Mirvakhabova , Hong Cai , Jisoo Jeong , Hanno Ackermann , Farhad Zanjani , Fatih Porikli

Motion is a dominant cue in automated driving systems. Optical flow is typically computed to detect moving objects and to estimate depth using triangulation. In this paper, our motivation is to leverage the existing dense optical flow to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hazem Rashed , Senthil Yogamani , Ahmad El-Sallab , Pavel Krizek , Mohamed El-Helw

Conventional optimal power flow (OPF) solvers assume full observability of the involved system states. However, in practice, there is a lack of reliable system monitoring devices in the distribution networks. To close the gap between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Yi Guo , Xinyang Zhou , Changhong Zhao , Yue Chen , Tyler Summers , Lijun Chen

Zebrafish pretectal neurons exhibit specificities for large-field optic flow patterns associated with rotatory or translatory body motion. We investigate the hypothesis that these specificities reflect the input statistics of natural optic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-10 Gerrit A. Ecke , Fabian A. Mikulasch , Sebastian A. Bruijns , Thede Witschel , Aristides B. Arrenberg , Hanspeter A. Mallot

Robust and accurate six degree-of-freedom tracking on portable devices remains a challenging problem, especially on small hand-held devices such as smartphones. For improved robustness and accuracy, complementary movement information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Lassi Meronen , William J. Wilkinson , Arno Solin

Flow matching has shown state-of-the-art performance in various generative tasks, ranging from image generation to decision-making, where generation under energy guidance (abbreviated as guidance in the following) is pivotal. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ruiqi Feng , Chenglei Yu , Wenhao Deng , Peiyan Hu , Tailin Wu

Robust velocity and position estimation is crucial for autonomous robot navigation. The optical flow based methods for autonomous navigation have been receiving increasing attentions in tandem with the development of micro unmanned aerial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Chen Wang , Tete Ji , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie