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As an important and challenging problem in computer vision, learning based optical flow estimation aims to discover the intrinsic correspondence structure between two adjacent video frames through statistical learning. Therefore, a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Shanshan Zhao , Xi Li , Omar El Farouk Bourahla

Unsupervised optical flow methods typically lack reliable uncertainty estimation, limiting their robustness and interpretability. We propose U$^{2}$Flow, the first recurrent unsupervised framework that jointly estimates optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xunpei Sun , Wenwei Lin , Yi Chang , Gang Chen

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

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Recent optical flow methods focus on training deep networks to approach the problem. However, the training data used by them does not cover the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Anurag Ranjan , David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Siyu Tang , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

Real-time moving object detection in unconstrained scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. In this paper, an optical flow based moving object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Jiagang Zhu , Zheng Zhu

Achieving sharp 3D reconstruction from motion-blurred images alone becomes challenging, motivating recent methods to incorporate event cameras, benefiting from microsecond temporal resolution. However, they suffer from residual artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Feiyu An , Yufei Deng , Zihui Zhang , Rong Xiao

Scene flow is the task of estimating 3D motion vectors to individual points of a dynamic 3D scene. Motion vectors have shown to be beneficial for downstream tasks such as action classification and collision avoidance. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Victor Zuanazzi

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

This paper presents a new event-based method for detecting and tracking features from the output of an event-based camera. Unlike many tracking algorithms from the computer vision community, this process does not aim for particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Laurent Dardelet , Sio-Hoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

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

Event cameras encode visual information with high temporal precision, low data-rate, and high-dynamic range. Thanks to these characteristics, event cameras are particularly suited for scenarios with high motion, challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Etienne Perot , Pierre de Tournemire , Davide Nitti , Jonathan Masci , Amos Sironi

Depth map estimation is a crucial task in computer vision, and new approaches have recently emerged taking advantage of light fields, as this new imaging modality captures much more information about the angular direction of light rays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Yang Chen , Martin Alain , Aljosa Smolic

Contrary to conventional frame-based imaging, event-based vision (EBV) or dynamic vision sensing (DVS) asynchronously records binary signals of intensity changes for given pixels with microsecond resolution. The present work explores the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-22 Christian Willert , Joachim Klinner

Event cameras output asynchronous events to represent intensity changes with a high temporal resolution, even under extreme lighting conditions. Currently, most of the existing works use a single contrast threshold to estimate the intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ziwei Wang , Yonhon Ng , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

From a perspective of feature matching, optical flow estimation for event cameras involves identifying event correspondences by comparing feature similarity across accompanying event frames. In this work, we introduces an effective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Hongzhi You , Yijun Cao , Wei Yuan , Fanjun Wang , Ning Qiao , Yongjie Li

CNN-based optical flow estimation has attracted attention recently, mainly due to its impressively high frame rates. These networks perform well on synthetic datasets, but they are still far behind the classical methods in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Nima Sedaghat , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

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

It is hard to estimate optical flow given a realworld video sequence with camera shake and other motion blur. In this paper, we first investigate the blur parameterization for video footage using near linear motion elements. we then combine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Wenbin Li , Yang Chen , JeeHang Lee , Gang Ren , Darren Cosker

Event cameras are emerging imaging technology that offers advantages over conventional frame-based imaging sensors in dynamic range and sensing speed. Complementing the rich texture and color perception of traditional image frames, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Peiqi Duan , Boyu Li , Yixin Yang , Hanyue Lou , Minggui Teng , Yi Ma , Boxin Shi

As the use of neuromorphic, event-based vision sensors expands, the need for compression of their output streams has increased. While their operational principle ensures event streams are spatially sparse, the high temporal resolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Daniel C. Stumpp , Himanshu Akolkar , Alan D. George , Ryad Benosman