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3D scene flow estimation is a vital tool in perceiving our environment given depth or range sensors. Unlike optical flow, the data is usually sparse and in most cases partially occluded in between two temporal samplings. Here we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Bojun Ouyang , Dan Raviv

In this paper, we present a new self-supervised scene flow estimation approach for a pair of consecutive point clouds. The key idea of our approach is to represent discrete point clouds as continuous probability density functions using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Pan He , Patrick Emami , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

We present FlowNet3D++, a deep scene flow estimation network. Inspired by classical methods, FlowNet3D++ incorporates geometric constraints in the form of point-to-plane distance and angular alignment between individual vectors in the flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zirui Wang , Shuda Li , Henry Howard-Jenkins , Victor Adrian Prisacariu , Min Chen

Although multi-scale concepts have recently proven useful for recurrent network architectures in the field of optical flow and stereo, they have not been considered for image-based scene flow so far. Hence, based on a single-scale recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jakob Schmid , Azin Jahedi , Noah Berenguel Senn , Andrés Bruhn

Estimating the 3D motion of points in a scene, known as scene flow, is a core problem in computer vision. Traditional learning-based methods designed to learn end-to-end 3D flow often suffer from poor generalization. Here we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yair Kittenplon , Yonina C. Eldar , Dan Raviv

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

Recently, neural network for scene flow estimation show impressive results on automotive data such as the KITTI benchmark. However, despite of using sophisticated rigidity assumptions and parametrizations, such networks are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Lukas Mehl , Azin Jahedi , Jenny Schmalfuss , Andrés Bruhn

Deep neural networks have made significant advancements in accurately estimating scene flow using point clouds, which is vital for many applications like video analysis, action recognition, and navigation. The robustness of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie , Mohammad-Shahram Moin , Shohreh Kasaei

In recent years, point cloud generation has gained significant attention in 3D generative modeling. Among existing approaches, point-based methods directly generate point clouds without relying on other representations such as latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Petr Molodyk , Jaemoo Choi , David W. Romero , Ming-Yu Liu , Yongxin Chen

Scene flow estimation is the task of describing 3D motion between temporally successive observations. This thesis aims to build the foundation for building scene flow estimators with two important properties: they are scalable, i.e. they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Kyle Vedder

We study the problem of self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation from real large-scale raw point cloud sequences, which is crucial to various tasks like trajectory prediction or instance segmentation. In the absence of ground truth scene…

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

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

Scene flow in 3D point clouds plays an important role in understanding dynamic environments. Although significant advances have been made by deep neural networks, the performance is far from satisfactory as only per-point translational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ruibo Li , Guosheng Lin , Tong He , Fayao Liu , Chunhua Shen

Scene flow estimation aims to generate the 3D motion field of points between two consecutive frames of point clouds, which has wide applications in various fields. Existing point-based methods ignore the irregularity of point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xuezhi Xiang , Xi Wang , Lei Zhang , Denis Ombati , Himaloy Himu , Xiantong Zhen

Estimating scene flow in RGB-D videos is attracting much interest of the computer vision researchers, due to its potential applications in robotics. The state-of-the-art techniques for scene flow estimation, typically rely on the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Ravi Kumar Thakur , Snehasis Mukherjee

3D scene flow characterizes how the points at the current time flow to the next time in the 3D Euclidean space, which possesses the capacity to infer autonomously the non-rigid motion of all objects in the scene. The previous methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Chaokang Jiang , Guangming Wang , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

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

Understanding the flow in 3D space of sparsely sampled points between two consecutive time frames is the core stone of modern geometric-driven systems such as VR/AR, Robotics, and Autonomous driving. The lack of real, non-simulated, labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bojun Ouyang , Dan Raviv

Occlusions hinder point cloud frame alignment in LiDAR data, a challenge inadequately addressed by scene flow models tested mainly on occlusion-free datasets. Attempts to integrate occlusion handling within networks often suffer accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jingze Chen , Junfeng Yao , Qiqin Lin , Lei Li

Learning 3D scene flow from LiDAR point clouds presents significant difficulties, including poor generalization from synthetic datasets to real scenes, scarcity of real-world 3D labels, and poor performance on real sparse LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Chaokang Jiang , Guangming Wang , Jiuming Liu , Hesheng Wang , Zhuang Ma , Zhenqiang Liu , Zhujin Liang , Yi Shan , Dalong Du