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We propose a novel scene flow method that captures 3D motions from point clouds without relying on ground-truth scene flow annotations. Due to the irregularity and sparsity of point clouds, it is expensive and time-consuming to acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Bing Li , Cheng Zheng , Guohao Li , Bernard Ghanem

Scene flow estimation is an extremely important task in computer vision to support the perception of dynamic changes in the scene. For robust scene flow, learning-based approaches have recently achieved impressive results using either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Rajai Alhimdiat , Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker , Wesam Ashour

Understanding 3D scenes is a critical prerequisite for autonomous agents. Recently, LiDAR and other sensors have made large amounts of data available in the form of temporal sequences of point cloud frames. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Pan He , Patrick Emami , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

We propose a novel scene flow estimation approach to capture and infer 3D motions from point clouds. Estimating 3D motions for point clouds is challenging, since a point cloud is unordered and its density is significantly non-uniform. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Bing Li , Cheng Zheng , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Scene flow characterizes the 3D motion between two LiDAR scans captured by an autonomous vehicle at nearby timesteps. Prevalent methods consider scene flow as point-wise unconstrained flow vectors that can be learned by either large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yancong Lin , Holger Caesar

Previous dominant methods for scene flow estimation focus mainly on input from two consecutive frames, neglecting valuable information in the temporal domain. While recent trends shift towards multi-frame reasoning, they suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yushan Zhang , Yixi Cai , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

LiDAR scene flow is the task of estimating per-point 3D motion between consecutive point clouds. Recent methods achieve centimeter-level accuracy on popular autonomous vehicle (AV) datasets, but are typically only trained and evaluated on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Siyi Li , Qingwen Zhang , Ishan Khatri , Kyle Vedder , Eric Eaton , Deva Ramanan , Neehar Peri

Recent weakly-supervised methods for scene flow estimation from LiDAR point clouds are limited to explicit reasoning on object-level. These methods perform multiple iterative optimizations for each rigid object, which makes them vulnerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

We tackle the task of scene flow estimation from point clouds. Given a source and a target point cloud, the objective is to estimate a translation from each point in the source point cloud to the target, resulting in a 3D motion vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yushan Zhang , Johan Edstedt , Bastian Wandt , Per-Erik Forssén , Maria Magnusson , Michael Felsberg

Scene flow represents the 3D motion of each point in the scene, which explicitly describes the distance and the direction of each point's movement. Scene flow estimation is used in various applications such as autonomous driving fields,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Guangming Wang , Zhiheng Feng , Chaokang Jiang , Hesheng Wang

Visual odometry aims to track the incremental motion of an object using the information captured by visual sensors. In this work, we study the point cloud odometry problem, where only the point cloud scans obtained by the LiDAR (Light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Pranav Kadam , Min Zhang , Jiahao Gu , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

The proposed RMS-FlowNet++ is a novel end-to-end learning-based architecture for accurate and efficient scene flow estimation that can operate on high-density point clouds. For hierarchical scene f low estimation, existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

In this article, we investigate self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation and class-agnostic motion prediction on point clouds. A realistic scene can be well modeled as a collection of rigidly moving parts, therefore its scene flow can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Ruibo Li , Chi Zhang , Zhe Wang , Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin

Many point cloud classification methods are developed under the assumption that all point clouds in the dataset are well aligned with the canonical axes so that the 3D Cartesian point coordinates can be employed to learn features. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Pranav Kadam , Hardik Prajapati , Min Zhang , Jintang Xue , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Understanding the flow in 3D space of sparsely sampled points between two consecutive time frames is the core stone of modern geometric-driven systems such as VR/AR, Robotics, and Autonomous driving. The lack of real, non-simulated, labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bojun Ouyang , Dan Raviv

Scene flow represents the motion information of each point in the 3D point clouds. It is a vital downstream method applied to many tasks, such as motion segmentation and object tracking. However, there are always occlusion points between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhiyang Lu , Ming Cheng

In autonomous driving scenarios, the collected LiDAR point clouds can be challenged by occlusion and long-range sparsity, limiting the perception of autonomous driving systems. Scene completion methods can infer the missing parts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Andrea Matteazzi , Dietmar Tutsch

Scene flow estimation is the task of describing the 3D motion field between temporally successive point clouds. State-of-the-art methods use strong priors and test-time optimization techniques, but require on the order of tens of seconds to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Kyle Vedder , Neehar Peri , Nathaniel Chodosh , Ishan Khatri , Eric Eaton , Dinesh Jayaraman , Yang Liu , Deva Ramanan , James Hays

In this paper, we propose a Point-Voxel Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms (PV-RAFT) method to estimate scene flow from point clouds. Since point clouds are irregular and unordered, it is challenging to efficiently extract features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yi Wei , Ziyi Wang , Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

In the domain of supervised scene flow estimation, the process of manual labeling is both time-intensive and financially demanding. This paper introduces SSFlowNet, a semi-supervised approach for scene flow estimation, that utilizes a blend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jingze Chen , Junfeng Yao , Qiqin Lin , Rongzhou Zhou , Lei Li