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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

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

In recent years, deep neural networks showed their exceeding capabilities in addressing many computer vision tasks including scene flow prediction. However, most of the advances are dependent on the availability of a vast amount of dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Katharina Bendig , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

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

We present DDFlow, a data distillation approach to learning optical flow estimation from unlabeled data. The approach distills reliable predictions from a teacher network, and uses these predictions as annotations to guide a student network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Pengpeng Liu , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu , Jia Xu

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

In this paper we propose USegScene, a framework for semantically guided unsupervised learning of depth, optical flow and ego-motion estimation for stereo camera images using convolutional neural networks. Our framework leverages semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Johan Vertens , Wolfram Burgard

Supervised training of optical flow predictors generally yields better accuracy than unsupervised training. However, the improved performance comes at an often high annotation cost. Semi-supervised training trades off accuracy against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Shuai Yuan , Xian Sun , Hannah Kim , Shuzhi Yu , Carlo Tomasi

In recent years, the LiDAR images, as a 2D compact representation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, are widely applied in various tasks, e.g., 3D semantic segmentation, LiDAR point cloud compression (PCC). Among these works, the optical flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Xuezhou Guo , Xuhu Lin , Lili Zhao , Zezhi Zhu , Jianwen Chen

We present an unsupervised optical flow estimation method by proposing an adaptive pyramid sampling in the deep pyramid network. Specifically, in the pyramid downsampling, we propose an Content Aware Pooling (CAP) module, which promotes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Kunming Luo , Ao Luo , Chuan Wang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Optical flow estimation is an essential task in self-driving systems, which helps autonomous vehicles perceive temporal continuity information of surrounding scenes. The calculation of all-pair correlation plays an important role in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hao Shi , Yifan Zhou , Kailun Yang , Xiaoting Yin , Kaiwei Wang

Optical flow estimation is a classical yet challenging task in computer vision. One of the essential factors in accurately predicting optical flow is to alleviate occlusions between frames. However, it is still a thorny problem for current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shangkun Sun , Yuanqi Chen , Yu Zhu , Guodong Guo , Ge Li

Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) aims to infer complete 3D geometry and semantics from monocular images, serving as a crucial capability for camera-based perception in autonomous driving. However, existing SSC methods relying on temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jinzhou Lin , Jie Zhou , Wenhao Xu , Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Shunpeng Chen , Kexue Fu , Yihua Shao , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu

Efficiently selecting an appropriate spike stream data length to extract precise information is the key to the spike vision tasks. To address this issue, we propose a dynamic timing representation for spike streams. Based on multi-layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Lujie Xia , Ziluo Ding , Rui Zhao , Jiyuan Zhang , Lei Ma , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang , Ruiqin Xiong

Traditional autonomous driving pipelines decouple camera design from downstream perception, relying on fixed optics and handcrafted ISPs that prioritize human viewable imagery rather than machine semantics. This separation discards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Reeshad Khan , John Gauch

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

Optical flow estimation is crucial to a variety of vision tasks. Despite substantial recent advancements, achieving real-time on-device optical flow estimation remains a complex challenge. First, an optical flow model must be sufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Jamie Menjay Lin , Jisoo Jeong , Hong Cai , Risheek Garrepalli , Kai Wang , Fatih Porikli

Key-point-based scene understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving applications. At the same time, optical flow plays an important role in many vision tasks. However, due to the implicit bias of equal attention on all points, classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhonghua Yi , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Qi Jiang , Yaozu Ye , Ze Wang , Huajian Ni , Kaiwei Wang

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

Existing optical flow methods make generic, spatially homogeneous, assumptions about the spatial structure of the flow. In reality, optical flow varies across an image depending on object class. Simply put, different objects move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Deqing Sun , Varun Jampani , Michael J. Black