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Scene flow estimation, which extracts point-wise motion between scenes, is becoming a crucial task in many computer vision tasks. However, all of the existing estimation methods utilize only the unidirectional features, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Wencan Cheng , Jong Hwan Ko

In the era of end-to-end deep learning, many advances in computer vision are driven by large amounts of labeled data. In the optical flow setting, however, obtaining dense per-pixel ground truth for real scenes is difficult and thus such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Simon Meister , Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Scene flow estimation is the task to predict the point-wise or pixel-wise 3D displacement vector between two consecutive frames of point clouds or images, which has important application in fields such as service robots and autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Guangming Wang , Yunzhe Hu , Xinrui Wu , Hesheng Wang

The scarcity of ground-truth labels poses one major challenge in developing optical flow estimation models that are both generalizable and robust. While current methods rely on data augmentation, they have yet to fully exploit the rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Risheek Garrepalli , Jamie Menjay Lin , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

Super-resolution is an ill-posed problem, since it allows for multiple predictions for a given low-resolution image. This fundamental fact is largely ignored by state-of-the-art deep learning based approaches. These methods instead train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Andreas Lugmayr , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

Dense ground displacement measurements are crucial for geological studies but are impractical to collect directly. Traditionally, displacement fields are estimated using patch matching on optical satellite images from different acquisition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Juliette Bertrand , Sophie Giffard-Roisin , James Hollingsworth , Julien Mairal

In recent years, deep neural networks showed their exceeding capabilities in addressing many computer vision tasks including scene flow prediction. However, most of the advances are dependent on the availability of a vast amount of dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal contextual network, STC-Flow, for optical flow estimation. Unlike previous optical flow estimation approaches with local pyramid feature extraction and multi-level correlation, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Xiaolin Song , Yuyang Zhao , Jingyu Yang

Video super-resolution is currently one of the most active research topics in computer vision as it plays an important role in many visual applications. Generally, video super-resolution contains a significant component, i.e., motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Zhigang Tu , Hongyan Li , Wei Xie , Yuanzhong Liu , Shifu Zhang , Baoxin Li , Junsong Yuan

We present a new lightweight CNN-based algorithm for multi-frame optical flow estimation. Our solution introduces a double recurrence over spatial scale and time through repeated use of a generic "STaR" (SpatioTemporal Recurrent) cell. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Pierre Godet , Alexandre Boulch , Aurélien Plyer , Guy Le Besnerais

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

6D object pose estimation is crucial for robotic perception and precise manipulation. Occlusion and incomplete object visibility are common challenges in this task, but existing pose refinement methods often struggle to handle these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xin Liu , Shibei Xue , Dezong Zhao , Shan Ma , Min Jiang

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

Modern large displacement optical flow algorithms usually use an initialization by either sparse descriptor matching techniques or dense approximate nearest neighbor fields. While the latter have the advantage of being dense, they have the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Christian Bailer , Bertram Taetz , Didier Stricker

Scene flow represents the 3D motion of each point in the scene, which explicitly describes the distance and the direction of each point's movement. Scene flow estimation is used in various applications such as autonomous driving fields,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Guangming Wang , Zhiheng Feng , Chaokang Jiang , Hesheng Wang

We address the problem of joint optical flow and camera motion estimation in rigid scenes by incorporating geometric constraints into an unsupervised deep learning framework. Unlike existing approaches which rely on brightness constancy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Shihao Jiang , Dylan Campbell , Miaomiao Liu , Stephen Gould , Richard Hartley

We propose to incorporate feature correlation and sequential processing into dense optical flow estimation from event cameras. Modern frame-based optical flow methods heavily rely on matching costs computed from feature correlation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mathias Gehrig , Mario Millhäusler , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Optical flow estimation is a basic task in self-driving and robotics systems, which enables to temporally interpret traffic scenes. Autonomous vehicles clearly benefit from the ultra-wide Field of View (FoV) offered by 360{\deg} panoramic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hao Shi , Yifan Zhou , Kailun Yang , Xiaoting Yin , Ze Wang , Yaozu Ye , Zhe Yin , Shi Meng , Peng Li , Kaiwei Wang

Monocular optical flow has been widely used to detect obstacles in Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) during visual navigation. However, this approach requires significant movement, which reduces the efficiency of navigation and may even introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-23 H. W. Ho , C. De Wagter , B. D. W. Remes , G. C. H. E. de Croon

Recent deep learning-based optical flow estimators have exhibited impressive performance in generating local flows between consecutive frames. However, the estimation of long-range flows between distant frames, particularly under complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Guangyang Wu , Xiaohong Liu , Kunming Luo , Xi Liu , Qingqing Zheng , Shuaicheng Liu , Xinyang Jiang , Guangtao Zhai , Wenyi Wang