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Optical flow is a regression task where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to major breakthroughs. However, this comes at major computational demands due to the use of cost-volumes and pyramidal representations. This was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg

We present SMURF, a method for unsupervised learning of optical flow that improves state of the art on all benchmarks by $36\%$ to $40\%$ (over the prior best method UFlow) and even outperforms several supervised approaches such as PWC-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Austin Stone , Daniel Maurer , Alper Ayvaci , Anelia Angelova , Rico Jonschkowski

We address the problem of scene flow: given a pair of stereo or RGB-D video frames, estimate pixelwise 3D motion. We introduce RAFT-3D, a new deep architecture for scene flow. RAFT-3D is based on the RAFT model developed for optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zachary Teed , Jia Deng

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have exhibited potential in synthesizing high-fidelity views of 3D scenes but the standard training paradigm of NeRF presupposes an equal importance for each image in the training set. This assumption poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Rongkai Ma , Leo Lebrat , Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Gil Avraham , Yan Zuo , Clinton Fookes , Olivier Salvado

Rectified Flow (RF) models have advanced high-quality image and video synthesis via optimal transport theory. However, when applied to image-to-image translation, they still depend on costly multi-step denoising, hindering real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shengqian Li , Ming Gao , Yi Liu , Zuzeng Lin , Feng Wang , Feng Dai

The estimation of optical flow is an ambiguous task due to the lack of correspondence at occlusions, shadows, reflections, lack of texture and changes in illumination over time. Thus, unsupervised methods face major challenges as they need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Adrian Wälchli , Paolo Favaro

CNN-based optical flow estimation has attracted attention recently, mainly due to its impressively high frame rates. These networks perform well on synthetic datasets, but they are still far behind the classical methods in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Nima Sedaghat , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

Flow models have rapidly become the go-to method for training and deploying large-scale generators, owing their success to inference-time flexibility via adjustable integration steps. A crucial ingredient in flow training is the choice of…

Accurately localizing and segmenting relevant objects from optical remote sensing images (ORSIs) is critical for advancing remote sensing applications. Existing methods are typically built upon moderate-scale pre-trained models and employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yanguang Sun , Chao Wang , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

With the advent and recent ubiquity of foundation models, continual learning (CL) has recently shifted from continual training from scratch to the continual adaptation of pretrained models, seeing particular success on rehearsal-free CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lukas Thede , Karsten Roth , Olivier J. Hénaff , Matthias Bethge , Zeynep Akata

We propose a novel data augmentation approach, DistractFlow, for training optical flow estimation models by introducing realistic distractions to the input frames. Based on a mixing ratio, we combine one of the frames in the pair with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Risheek Garrepalli , Fatih Porikli

Discriminative correlation filters (DCF) with deep convolutional features have achieved favorable performance in recent tracking benchmarks. However, most of existing DCF trackers only consider appearance features of current frame, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Zheng Zhu , Wei Wu , Wei Zou , Junjie Yan

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has attracted significant attention due to the growth of pre-trained model sizes and the need to fine-tune (FT) them for superior downstream performance. Despite a surge in new PEFT methods, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Zheda Mai , Ping Zhang , Cheng-Hao Tu , Hong-You Chen , Li Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao

It has been recently shown that a convolutional neural network can learn optical flow estimation with unsupervised learning. However, the performance of the unsupervised methods still has a relatively large gap compared to its supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Yang Wang , Yi Yang , Zhenheng Yang , Liang Zhao , Peng Wang , Wei Xu

Optical flow estimation is a challenging problem remaining unsolved. Recent deep learning based optical flow models have achieved considerable success. However, these models often train networks from the scratch on standard optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Qiaole Dong , Chenjie Cao , Yanwei Fu

Existing recurrent optical flow estimation networks are computationally expensive since they use a fixed large number of iterations to update the flow field for each sample. An efficient network should skip iterations when the flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ri Cheng , Ruian He , Xuhao Jiang , Shili Zhou , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

Recent advances in optical flow estimation have prioritized accuracy at the cost of growing GPU memory consumption, particularly for high-resolution (FullHD) inputs. We introduce MEMFOF, a memory-efficient multi-frame optical flow method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Vladislav Bargatin , Egor Chistov , Alexander Yakovenko , Dmitriy Vatolin

Reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for aligning diffusion and flow-matching models with human preferences, yet practitioners face fragmented codebases, model-specific implementations, and engineering complexity. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bowen Ping , Chengyou Jia , Minnan Luo , Hangwei Qian , Ivor Tsang

Continual learning aims to enable models to adapt to new datasets without losing performance on previously learned data, often assuming that prior data is no longer available. However, in many practical scenarios, both old and new data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Eli Verwimp , Guy Hacohen , Tinne Tuytelaars

Both optical flow and stereo disparities are image matches and can therefore benefit from joint training. Depth and 3D motion provide geometric rather than photometric information and can further improve optical flow. Accordingly, we design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuai Yuan , Carlo Tomasi