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We present a unifying framework to solve several computer vision problems with event cameras: motion, depth and optical flow estimation. The main idea of our framework is to find the point trajectories on the image plane that are best…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Guillermo Gallego , Henri Rebecq , Davide Scaramuzza

Current optical flow and point-tracking methods rely heavily on synthetic datasets. Event cameras are novel vision sensors with advantages in challenging visual conditions, but state-of-the-art frame-based methods cannot be easily adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Friedhelm Hamann , Ziyun Wang , Ioannis Asmanis , Kenneth Chaney , Guillermo Gallego , Kostas Daniilidis

Optical flow is a classical task that is important to the vision community. Classical optical flow estimation uses two frames as input, whilst some recent methods consider multiple frames to explicitly model long-range information. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qiaole Dong , Yanwei Fu

State-of-the-art frame interpolation methods generate intermediate frames by inferring object motions in the image from consecutive key-frames. In the absence of additional information, first-order approximations, i.e. optical flow, must be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Stepan Tulyakov , Daniel Gehrig , Stamatios Georgoulis , Julius Erbach , Mathias Gehrig , Yuanyou Li , Davide Scaramuzza

We present a method for estimating dense continuous-time optical flow from event data. Traditional dense optical flow methods compute the pixel displacement between two images. Due to missing information, these approaches cannot recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mathias Gehrig , Manasi Muglikar , Davide Scaramuzza

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is a crucial component in various applications, including localization and mapping in robotics, object tracking, and activity recognition in computer vision. While recent learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiyong Zhang , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

We propose a new multi-frame method for efficiently computing scene flow (dense depth and optical flow) and camera ego-motion for a dynamic scene observed from a moving stereo camera rig. Our technique also segments out moving objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Tatsunori Taniai , Sudipta N. Sinha , Yoichi Sato

We present a method that leverages the complementarity of event cameras and standard cameras to track visual features with low-latency. Event cameras are novel sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes, called "events". They offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Daniel Gehrig , Henri Rebecq , Guillermo Gallego , Davide Scaramuzza

Estimating per-pixel motion between video frames, known as optical flow, is a long-standing problem in video understanding and analysis. Most contemporary optical flow techniques largely focus on addressing the cross-image matching with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Kunming Luo , Xin Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Event cameras deliver visual information characterized by a high dynamic range and high temporal resolution, offering significant advantages in estimating optical flow for complex lighting conditions and fast-moving objects. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gangwei Xu , Haotong Lin , Zhaoxing Zhang , Hongcheng Luo , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yang

Event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor that outputs event stream. In this paper, we propose a novel data fusion algorithm called EAS to fuse conventional intensity images with the event stream. The fusion result is applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Liren Yang

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 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

Accurate velocity estimation is critical in mobile robotics, particularly for driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. Wheel odometry fused with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data is a widely used method for velocity estimation;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Liam Boyle , Jonas Kühne , Nicolas Baumann , Niklas Bastuck , Michele Magno

Optical flow is an indispensable building block for various important computer vision tasks, including motion estimation, object tracking, and disparity measurement. In this work, we propose TransFlow, a pure transformer architecture for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yawen Lu , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Tong Geng , Yingjie Victor Chen , Huaijin Chen , Dongfang Liu

The event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor. When the brightness change exceeds the preset threshold, the sensor generates events asynchronously. The number of valid events directly affects the performance of event-based tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xijie Xiang , Lin Zhu , Jianing Li , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Event cameras provide high temporal precision, low data rates, and high dynamic range visual perception, which are well-suited for optical flow estimation. While data-driven optical flow estimation has obtained great success in RGB cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yijin Li , Zhaoyang Huang , Shuo Chen , Xiaoyu Shi , Hongsheng Li , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

Real-time motion detection in non-stationary scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. These challenges degrade the performance of the existing methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Zheng Zhu , Jiagang Zhu

The FlowNet demonstrated that optical flow estimation can be cast as a learning problem. However, the state of the art with regard to the quality of the flow has still been defined by traditional methods. Particularly on small displacements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Eddy Ilg , Nikolaus Mayer , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Event-based vision sensors produce asynchronous event streams with high temporal resolution based on changes in the visual scene. The properties of these sensors allow for accurate and fast calculation of optical flow as events are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Daniel C. Stumpp , Himanshu Akolkar , Alan D. George , Ryad B. Benosman