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Video frame interpolation (VFI) offers a way to generate intermediate frames between consecutive frames of a video sequence. Although the development of advanced frame interpolation algorithms has received increased attention in recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Conall Daly , Darren Ramsook , Anil Kokaram

Video Frame Interpolation synthesizes non-existent images between adjacent frames, with the aim of providing a smooth and consistent visual experience. Two approaches for solving this challenging task are optical flow based and kernel-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Xi Li , Meng Cao , Yingying Tang , Scott Johnston , Zhendong Hong , Huimin Ma , Jiulong Shan

Most approaches for video frame interpolation require accurate dense correspondences to synthesize an in-between frame. Therefore, they do not perform well in challenging scenarios with e.g. lighting changes or motion blur. Recent deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Simone Meyer , Abdelaziz Djelouah , Brian McWilliams , Alexander Sorkine-Hornung , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

Recently, flow-based frame interpolation methods have achieved great success by first modeling optical flow between target and input frames, and then building synthesis network for target frame generation. However, above cascaded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Lingtong Kong , Jinfeng Liu , Jie Yang

Video frame interpolation, the process of synthesizing intermediate frames between sequential video frames, has made remarkable progress with the use of event cameras. These sensors, with microsecond-level temporal resolution, fill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yuhan Liu , Yongjian Deng , Hao Chen , Bochen Xie , Youfu Li , Zhen Yang

This paper considers the challenging task of long-term video interpolation. Unlike most existing methods that only generate few intermediate frames between existing adjacent ones, we attempt to speculate or imagine the procedure of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Xiongtao Chen , Wenmin Wang , Jinzhuo Wang , Weimian Li , Baoyang Chen

Research on video frame interpolation has made significant progress in recent years. However, existing methods mostly use off-the-shelf metrics to measure the quality of interpolation results with the exception of a few methods that employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Qiqi Hou , Abhijay Ghildyal , Feng Liu

A novel 4K video frame interpolator based on bilateral transformer (BiFormer) is proposed in this paper, which performs three steps: global motion estimation, local motion refinement, and frame synthesis. First, in global motion estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Junheum Park , Jintae Kim , Chang-Su Kim

Video frame interpolation (VFI) works generally predict intermediate frame(s) by first estimating the motion between inputs and then warping the inputs to the target time with the estimated motion. This approach, however, is not optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Dawit Mureja Argaw , In So Kweon

Video frame interpolation (VFI) is a challenging task that aims to generate intermediate frames between two consecutive frames in a video. Existing learning-based VFI methods have achieved great success, but they still suffer from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Haoning Wu , Xiaoyun Zhang , Weidi Xie , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Video frame interpolation is an important low-level vision task, which can increase frame rate for more fluent visual experience. Existing methods have achieved great success by employing advanced motion models and synthesis networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Lingtong Kong , Boyuan Jiang , Donghao Luo , Wenqing Chu , Ying Tai , Chengjie Wang , Jie Yang

Video frame interpolation has been actively studied with the development of convolutional neural networks. However, due to the intrinsic limitations of kernel weight sharing in convolution, the interpolated frame generated by it may lose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Pan Gao , Haoyue Tian , Jie Qin

Video frame interpolation is an increasingly important research task with several key industrial applications in the video coding, broadcast and production sectors. Recently, transformers have been introduced to the field resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Issa Khalifeh , Luka Murn , Marta Mrak , Ebroul Izquierdo

Video prediction is an extrapolation task that predicts future frames given past frames, and video frame interpolation is an interpolation task that estimates intermediate frames between two frames. We have witnessed the tremendous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yue Wu , Qiang Wen , Qifeng Chen

Video Frame Interpolation aims to recover realistic missing frames between observed frames, generating a high-frame-rate video from a low-frame-rate video. However, without additional guidance, the large motion between frames makes this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jingxi Chen , Brandon Y. Feng , Haoming Cai , Tianfu Wang , Levi Burner , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermuller , Christopher A. Metzler , Yiannis Aloimonos

This work presents a supervised learning based approach to the computer vision problem of frame interpolation. The presented technique could also be used in the cartoon animations since drawing each individual frame consumes a noticeable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Vladislav Samsonov

Flow-guided synthesis provides a common framework for frame interpolation, where optical flow is estimated to guide the synthesis of intermediate frames between consecutive inputs. In this paper, we present UPR-Net, a novel Unified Pyramid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Xin Jin , Longhai Wu , Jie Chen , Youxin Chen , Jayoon Koo , Cheul-hee Hahm

Motion-based video frame interpolation commonly relies on optical flow to warp pixels from the inputs to the desired interpolation instant. Yet due to the inherent challenges of motion estimation (e.g. occlusions and discontinuities), most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Ping Hu , Simon Niklaus , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko

Existing video frame interpolation methods can only interpolate the frame at a given intermediate time-step, e.g. 1/2. In this paper, we aim to explore a more generalized kind of video frame interpolation, that at an arbitrary time-step. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Shixing Yu , Yiyang Ma , Wenhan Yang , Wei Xiang , Jiaying Liu

Video frame interpolation (VFI), which aims to synthesize intermediate frames of a video, has made remarkable progress with development of deep convolutional networks over past years. Existing methods built upon convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Liying Lu , Ruizheng Wu , Huaijia Lin , Jiangbo Lu , Jiaya Jia