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Underwater imaging is fundamentally challenging due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, strong scattering from suspended particles, turbidity-induced blur, and non-uniform illumination. These effects impair standard cameras and make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Nick Truong , Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

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

We learn to compute optical flow by combining a classical spatial-pyramid formulation with deep learning. This estimates large motions in a coarse-to-fine approach by warping one image of a pair at each pyramid level by the current flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Anurag Ranjan , Michael J. Black

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

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Rahul Ahuja , Chris Baker , Wilko Schwarting

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

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

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) can generate high-quality videos, but often struggle with producing temporally coherent motion. Optical flow supervision is a promising approach to address this, with prior works commonly employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kuanting Wu , Kei Ota , Asako Kanezaki

Many video enhancement algorithms rely on optical flow to register frames in a video sequence. Precise flow estimation is however intractable; and optical flow itself is often a sub-optimal representation for particular video processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Tianfan Xue , Baian Chen , Jiajun Wu , Donglai Wei , William T. Freeman

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

In recent years, many deep learning-based methods have been proposed to tackle the problem of optical flow estimation and achieved promising results. However, they hardly consider that most videos are compressed and thus ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Shili Zhou , Xuhao Jiang , Weimin Tan , Ruian He , Bo Yan

Semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment a few moving objects in a video sequence, where these objects are specified by annotation of first frame. The optical flow has been considered in many existing semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ziyang Liu , Jingmeng Liu , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Zhengguo Li

Future motion representations, such as optical flow, offer immense value for control and generative tasks. However, forecasting generalizable spatially dense motion representations remains a key challenge, and learning such forecasting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Honglu Zhou , Yu Fang , Luyu Yang , Le Xue , Ran Xu , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Michael S Ryoo , Juan Carlos Niebles

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental and long-standing visual task. In this work, we present a novel method, dubbed HMAFlow, to improve optical flow estimation in challenging scenes, particularly those involving small objects. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Dianbo Ma , Kousuke Imamura , Ziyan Gao , Xiangjie Wang , Satoshi Yamane

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

The performance of optical flow algorithms greatly depends on the specifics of the content and the application for which it is used. Existing and well established optical flow datasets are limited to rather particular contents from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gregory Schröder , Tobias Senst , Erik Bochinski , Thomas Sikora

Optical flow techniques are becoming increasingly performant and robust when estimating motion in a scene, but their performance has yet to be proven in the area of facial expression recognition. In this work, a variety of optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Benjamin Allaert , Isaac Ronald Ward , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Chaabane Djeraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

With the reduced hardware costs of omnidirectional cameras and the proliferation of various extended reality applications, more and more $360^\circ$ videos are being captured. To fully unleash their potential, advanced video analytics is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Miao Zhang , Yifei Zhu , Linfeng Shen , Fangxin Wang , Jiangchuan Liu

Omnidirectional 360{\deg} images have found many promising and exciting applications in computer vision, robotics and other fields, thanks to their increasing affordability, portability and their 360{\deg} field of view. The most common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mingze Yuan , Christian Richardt