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We consider the solution of initial value problems within the context of hybrid systems and emphasise the use of high precision approximations (in software for exact real arithmetic). We propose a novel algorithm for the computation of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2010-06-03 Norbert Th. Müller , Margarita Korovina

The optical flow of natural scenes is a combination of the motion of the observer and the independent motion of objects. Existing algorithms typically focus on either recovering motion and structure under the assumption of a purely static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Jonas Wulff , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Michael J. Black

Deep generative models offer a powerful alternative to conventional channel estimation by learning complex channel distributions. By integrating the rich environmental information available in modern sensing-aided networks, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaotian Fan , Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Optical flow is a fundamental technique for motion estimation, widely applied in video stabilization, interpolation, and object tracking. Traditional optical flow estimation methods rely on restrictive assumptions like brightness constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu-Hsi Chen , Chin-Tien Wu

Estimating continuous optical flow is a fundamental yet challenging problem in dynamic visual perception. Event-based cameras, with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, capture brightness changes asynchronously, offering a unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rui Hu , Song Wu , Wen Yang , Jinjian Wu

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

This work presents DCFlow, a novel unsupervised cross-modal flow estimation framework that integrates a decoupled optimization strategy and a cross-modal consistency constraint. Unlike previous approaches that implicitly learn flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Runmin Zhang , Jialiang Wang , Si-Yuan Cao , Zhu Yu , Junchen Yu , Guangyi Zhang , Hui-Liang Shen

Self-supervised multi-frame methods have currently achieved promising results in depth estimation. However, these methods often suffer from mismatch problems due to the moving objects, which break the static assumption. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yiyang Sun , Zhiyuan Xu , Xiaonian Wang , Jing Yao

Most Video Super-Resolution (VSR) methods enhance a video reference frame by aligning its neighboring frames and mining information on these frames. Recently, deformable alignment has drawn extensive attention in VSR community for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiayi Lin , Yan Huang , Liang Wang

Event cameras, by virtue of their working principle, directly encode motion within a scene. Many learning-based and model-based methods exist that estimate event-based optical flow, however the temporally dense yet spatially sparse nature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi

Modern optical flow methods make use of salient scene feature points detected and matched within the scene as a basis for sparse-to-dense optical flow estimation. Current feature detectors however either give sparse, non uniform point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Felix Stephenson , Toby Breckon , Ioannis Katramados

Scene flow is the dense 3D reconstruction of motion and geometry of a scene. Most state-of-the-art methods use a pair of stereo images as input for full scene reconstruction. These methods depend a lot on the quality of the RGB images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Rishav , Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Point cloud capture processes are error-prone and introduce noisy artifacts that necessitate filtering/denoising. Recent filtering methods often suffer from point clustering or noise retaining issues. In this paper, we propose Hybrid Point…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Dasith de Silva Edirimuni , Xuequan Lu , Ajmal Saeed Mian , Lei Wei , Gang Li , Scott Schaefer , Ying He

Deformable convolution, originally proposed for the adaptation to geometric variations of objects, has recently shown compelling performance in aligning multiple frames and is increasingly adopted for video super-resolution. Despite its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Kelvin C. K. Chan , Xintao Wang , Ke Yu , Chao Dong , Chen Change Loy

Optical flow, which expresses pixel displacement, is widely used in many computer vision tasks to provide pixel-level motion information. However, with the remarkable progress of the convolutional neural network, recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ruibing Jin , Guosheng Lin , Changyun Wen , Jianliang Wang , Fayao Liu

This paper introduces a modular, non-deep learning method for filtering and refining sparse correspondences in image matching. Assuming that motion flow within the scene can be approximated by local homography transformations, matches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Fabio Bellavia , Zhenjun Zhao , Luca Morelli , Fabio Remondino

Visual feature clustering is one of the cost-effective approaches to segment objects in videos. However, the assumptions made for developing the existing algorithms prevent them from being used in situations like segmenting an unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 A. M. R. R. Bandara , L. Ranathunga , N. A. Abdullah

State-of-the-art neural network models estimate large displacement optical flow in multi-resolution and use warping to propagate the estimation between two resolutions. Despite their impressive results, it is known that there are two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Yao Lu , Jack Valmadre , Heng Wang , Juho Kannala , Mehrtash Harandi , Philip H. S. Torr

Estimating full-body human motion via sparse tracking signals from head-mounted displays and hand controllers in 3D scenes is crucial to applications in AR/VR. One of the biggest challenges to this task is the one-to-many mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Jiangnan Tang , Jingya Wang , Kaiyang Ji , Lan Xu , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

Dense 3D facial motion capture from only monocular in-the-wild pairs of RGB images is a highly challenging problem with numerous applications, ranging from facial expression recognition to facial reenactment. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Mohammad Rami Koujan , Anastasios Roussos , Stefanos Zafeiriou