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Flow Matching has emerged as a powerful framework for learning continuous transformations between distributions, enabling high-fidelity generative modeling. This work introduces Symmetrical Flow Matching (SymmFlow), a new formulation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Francisco Caetano , Christiaan Viviers , Peter H. N. De With , Fons van der Sommen

Omnidirectional scene understanding is vital for various downstream applications, such as embodied AI, autonomous driving, and immersive environments, yet remains challenging due to geometric distortion and complex spatial relations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinshen Zhang , Tongxi Fu , Xu Zheng

Optical flow estimation is very challenging in situations with transparent or occluded objects. In this work, we address these challenges at the task level by introducing Amodal Optical Flow, which integrates optical flow with amodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Maximilian Luz , Rohit Mohan , Ahmed Rida Sekkat , Oliver Sawade , Elmar Matthes , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada

360{\deg} images can provide an omnidirectional field of view which is important for stable and long-term scene perception. In this paper, we explore 360{\deg} images for visual object tracking and perceive new challenges caused by large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Huajian Huang , Yinzhe Xu , Yingshu Chen , Sai-Kit Yeung

Panoramic image processing is essential for omni-context perception, yet faces constraints like distortions, perspective occlusions, and limited annotations. Previous unsupervised domain adaptation methods transfer knowledge from labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yihong Cao , Jiaming Zhang , Xu Zheng , Hao Shi , Kunyu Peng , Hang Liu , Kailun Yang , Hui Zhang

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

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

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

3D Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) provides comprehensive scene geometry and semantics for autonomous driving perception, which is crucial for enabling accurate and reliable decision-making. However, existing SSC methods are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Meng Wang , Fan Wu , Ruihui Li , Yunchuan Qin , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation enables robots to learn 3D perception from raw video streams. This scalable approach leverages projective geometry and ego-motion to learn via view synthesis, assuming the world is mostly static.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Vitor Guizilini , Kuan-Hui Lee , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon

This paper studies optical flow estimation, a critical task in motion analysis with applications in autonomous navigation, action recognition, and film production. Traditional optical flow methods require consecutive frames, which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mo Zhou , Jianwei Wang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Kai Wang , Long Yuan , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

We present SMURF, a method for unsupervised learning of optical flow that improves state of the art on all benchmarks by $36\%$ to $40\%$ (over the prior best method UFlow) and even outperforms several supervised approaches such as PWC-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Austin Stone , Daniel Maurer , Alper Ayvaci , Anelia Angelova , Rico Jonschkowski

Learning-based optical flow estimation has been dominated with the pipeline of cost volume with convolutions for flow regression, which is inherently limited to local correlations and thus is hard to address the long-standing challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Dacheng Tao

We present FloVD, a novel video diffusion model for camera-controllable video generation. FloVD leverages optical flow to represent the motions of the camera and moving objects. This approach offers two key benefits. Since optical flow can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Wonjoon Jin , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Seung-Hwan Baek , Sunghyun Cho

Visual object tracking and segmentation in omnidirectional videos are challenging due to the wide field-of-view and large spherical distortion brought by 360{\deg} images. To alleviate these problems, we introduce a novel representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yinzhe Xu , Huajian Huang , Yingshu Chen , Sai-Kit Yeung

We introduce WorldSense, the first benchmark to assess the multi-modal video understanding, that simultaneously encompasses visual, audio, and text inputs. In contrast to existing benchmarks, our WorldSense has several features:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jack Hong , Shilin Yan , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie

Optical flow estimation is a well-studied topic for automated driving applications. Many outstanding optical flow estimation methods have been proposed, but they become erroneous when tested in challenging scenarios that are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Senthil Yogamani

Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

Neural Scene Flow Prior (NSFP) is of significant interest to the vision community due to its inherent robustness to out-of-distribution (OOD) effects and its ability to deal with dense lidar points. The approach utilizes a coordinate neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xueqian Li , Jianqiao Zheng , Francesco Ferroni , Jhony Kaesemodel Pontes , Simon Lucey

Achieving 3D understanding of non-Lambertian objects is an important task with many useful applications, but most existing algorithms struggle to deal with such objects. One major obstacle towards progress in this field is the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Hongyu Wen , Erich Liang , Jia Deng