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The occlusion problem remains a crucial challenge in optical flow estimation (OFE). Despite the recent significant progress brought about by deep learning, most existing deep learning OFE methods still struggle to handle occlusions; in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Bo Wang , Yifan Zhang , Jian Li , Yang Yu , Zhenping Sun , Li Liu , Dewen Hu

Diffusion-based unsupervised image registration has been explored for cardiac cine MR, but expensive multi-step inference limits practical use. We propose FlowReg, a flow-matching framework in displacement field space that achieves strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yunguan Fu , Wenjia Bai , Wen Yan , Matthew J Clarkson , Rhodri Huw Davies , Yipeng Hu

Transformers based on the attention mechanism have achieved impressive success in various areas. However, the attention mechanism has a quadratic complexity, significantly impeding Transformers from dealing with numerous tokens and scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Haixu Wu , Jialong Wu , Jiehui Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Over four decades, the majority addresses the problem of optical flow estimation using variational methods. With the advance of machine learning, some recent works have attempted to address the problem using convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Tak-Wai Hui , Xiaoou Tang , Chen Change Loy

The remarkable success of diffusion and flow-matching models has ignited a surge of works on adapting them at test time for controlled generation tasks. Examples range from image editing to restoration, compression and personalization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Or Ronai , Vladimir Kulikov , Tomer Michaeli

In this work, we present Eformer - Edge enhancement based transformer, a novel architecture that builds an encoder-decoder network using transformer blocks for medical image denoising. Non-overlapping window-based self-attention is used in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-10 Achleshwar Luthra , Harsh Sulakhe , Tanish Mittal , Abhishek Iyer , Santosh Yadav

Dense image correspondence is central to many applications, such as visual odometry, 3D reconstruction, object association, and re-identification. Historically, dense correspondence has been tackled separately for wide-baseline scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yuchen Zhang , Nikhil Keetha , Chenwei Lyu , Bhuvan Jhamb , Yutian Chen , Yuheng Qiu , Jay Karhade , Shreyas Jha , Yaoyu Hu , Deva Ramanan , Sebastian Scherer , Wenshan Wang

Solving flow through porous media is a crucial step in the topology optimisation of cold plates, a key component in modern thermal management. Traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods, while accurate, are often prohibitively…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jinhong Wang , Matei C. Ignuta-Ciuncanu , Ricardo F. Martinez-Botas , Teng Cao

The transformer architecture by Vaswani et al. (2017) is now ubiquitous across application domains, from natural language processing to speech processing and image understanding. We propose DenseFormer, a simple modification to the standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Matteo Pagliardini , Amirkeivan Mohtashami , Francois Fleuret , Martin Jaggi

Flow-based Generative Models (FGMs) effectively transform noise into complex data distributions. Incorporating Optimal Transport (OT) to couple noise and data during FGM training has been shown to improve the straightness of flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Lingkai Kong , Molei Tao , Yang Liu , Bryan Wang , Jinmiao Fu , Chien-Chih Wang , Huidong Liu

Currently, one main research line in designing a more efficient vision transformer is reducing the computational cost of self attention modules by adopting sparse attention or using local attention windows. In contrast, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Haokui Zhang , Wenze Hu , Xiaoyu Wang

An efficient 3D scene flow estimation method called PointFlowHop is proposed in this work. PointFlowHop takes two consecutive point clouds and determines the 3D flow vectors for every point in the first point cloud. PointFlowHop decomposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Pranav Kadam , Jiahao Gu , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Many real-world problems can be naturally described by mathematical formulas. The task of finding formulas from a set of observed inputs and outputs is called symbolic regression. Recently, neural networks have been applied to symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Martin Vastl , Jonáš Kulhánek , Jiří Kubalík , Erik Derner , Robert Babuška

Humans can often count unfamiliar objects by observing visual repetition and composition, rather than relying only on object categories. However, many exemplar-free counting models struggle in such situations and may overcount when objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Md Tanvir Hossain , Akif Islam , Mohd Ruhul Ameen

Optical flow estimation is very challenging in situations with transparent or occluded objects. In this work, we address these challenges at the task level by introducing Amodal Optical Flow, which integrates optical flow with amodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Maximilian Luz , Rohit Mohan , Ahmed Rida Sekkat , Oliver Sawade , Elmar Matthes , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada

Facial Action Units (AU) is a vital concept in the realm of affective computing, and AU detection has always been a hot research topic. Existing methods suffer from overfitting issues due to the utilization of a large number of learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Kaishen Yuan , Zitong Yu , Xin Liu , Weicheng Xie , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang

This technical report presents an effective method for motion prediction in autonomous driving. We develop a Transformer-based method for input encoding and trajectory prediction. Besides, we propose the Temporal Flow Header to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yuting Wang , Hangning Zhou , Zhigang Zhang , Chen Feng , Huadong Lin , Chaofei Gao , Yizhi Tang , Zhenting Zhao , Shiyu Zhang , Jie Guo , Xuefeng Wang , Ziyao Xu , Chi Zhang

This study proposes a universal flow field prediction framework based on knowledge transfer from large language model (LLM), addressing the high computational costs of traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods and the limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Weihao Zou , Weibing Feng , Pin Wu

Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved excellent performance on vision tasks by measuring the global self-attention among the image patches. Given $n$ patches, they will have quadratic complexity such as $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiquan Shan , Junxiao Wang , Lifeng Zhao , Liang Cai , Hongyuan Zhang , Ioannis Liritzis

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have underpinned the recent breakthroughs in computer vision. However, designing the architectures of ViTs is laborious and heavily relies on expert knowledge. To automate the design process and incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai , Bohan Zhuang