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Learning with neural networks from a continuous stream of visual information presents several challenges due to the non-i.i.d. nature of the data. However, it also offers novel opportunities to develop representations that are consistent…

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Flow based generative models have charted an impressive path across multiple visual generation tasks by adhering to a simple principle: learning velocity representations of a linear interpolant. However, we observe that training velocity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Inkyu Shin , Chenglin Yang , Liang-Chieh Chen

For visual estimation of optical flow, a crucial function for many vision tasks, unsupervised learning, using the supervision of view synthesis has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods, since ground-truth flow is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zitang Sun , Shin'ya Nishida , Zhengbo Luo

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to detect the most prominent object in a video. Recently, two-stream approaches that leverage both RGB images and optical flow have gained significant attention, but their performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, yet the reliance on expensive ground-truth annotations limits the scalability of supervised approaches. Although unsupervised and semi-supervised methods alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yixuan Luo , Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Yanjing Li , Nathan Jacobs

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are becoming increasingly popular for the reconstruction of high-resolution turbulent flows (aka super-resolution). However, current DL approaches perform spatially uniform super-resolution - a key performance…

Active researches are currently being performed to incorporate the wealth of scientific knowledge into data-driven approaches (e.g., neural networks) in order to improve the latter's effectiveness. In this study, the Theory-guided Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Nanzhe Wang , Dongxiao Zhang , Haibin Chang , Heng Li

Existing analyses of optimization in deep learning are either continuous, focusing on (variants of) gradient flow, or discrete, directly treating (variants of) gradient descent. Gradient flow is amenable to theoretical analysis, but is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Omer Elkabetz , Nadav Cohen

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 and analyze an algorithm for the solution of the $L^2$-subgradient flow of the total variation functional. The algorithm involves no regularization, thus the numerical solution preserves the main features that motivate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Soeren Bartels , Abner J. Salgado

Typical topology optimization methods require complex iterative calculations, which cannot meet the requirements of fast computing applications. The neural network is studied to reduce the time of computing the optimization result, however,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Ce Guan , Jianyu Zhang , Zhen Li , Yongbo Deng

We present an analysis of total-variation (TV) on non-Euclidean parameterized surfaces, a natural representation of the shapes used in 3D graphics. Our work explains recent experimental findings in shape spectral TV [Fumero et al., 2020]…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jonathan Brokman , Martin Burger , Guy Gilboa

Unsupervised representation learning aims at describing raw data efficiently to solve various downstream tasks. It has been approached with many techniques, such as manifold learning, diffusion maps, or more recently self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vivien Cabannes , Alberto Bietti , Randall Balestriero

The interaction of neural networks with physical equations offers a wide range of applications. We provide a method which enables a neural network to transform objects subject to given physical constraints. Therefore an U-Net architecture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Lukas Harsch , Johannes Burgbacher , Stefan Riedelbauch

Total variation (TV) is a powerful regularization method that has been widely applied in different imaging applications, but is difficult to apply to diffuse optical tomography (DOT) image reconstruction (inverse problem) due to complex and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Wenqi Lu , Jinming Duan , David Orive-Miguel , Lionel Herve , Iain B Styles

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS), also known as video salient object detection, aims to detect the most prominent object in a video at the pixel level. Recently, two-stream approaches that leverage both RGB images and optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Seunghoon Lee , Sungmin Woo , Sangyoun Lee

Event-based cameras have shown great promise in a variety of situations where frame based cameras suffer, such as high speed motions and high dynamic range scenes. However, developing algorithms for event measurements requires a new class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

In this thesis, we offer a thorough investigation of different regularisation terms used in variational imaging problems, together with detailed optimisation processes of these problems. We begin by studying smooth problems and partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Joseph Bartlett , Jinming Duan

An optimization framework is presented for minimizing the energy functional developed around a generalized equation governing physical systems such as fluid dynamics, particle transport, phase transition, and other related systems. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-25 Varsha Gupta

Total variation regularization and total variation flows (TVF) have been widely applied for image enhancement and denoising. To include a generic preservation of crossing curvilinear structures in TVF we lift images to the homogeneous space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Remco Duits , Etienne St-Onge , Jim Portegies , Bart Smets