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We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

Unsupervised deep learning for optical flow computation has achieved promising results. Most existing deep-net based methods rely on image brightness consistency and local smoothness constraint to train the networks. Their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Yiran Zhong , Pan Ji , Jianyuan Wang , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li

Most recent 6D object pose methods use 2D optical flow to refine their results. However, the general optical flow methods typically do not consider the target's 3D shape information during matching, making them less effective in 6D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Yang Hai , Rui Song , Jiaojiao Li , Yinlin Hu

In this paper, we focus on designing effective method for fast and accurate scene parsing. A common practice to improve the performance is to attain high resolution feature maps with strong semantic representation. Two strategies are widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xiangtai Li , Ansheng You , Zhen Zhu , Houlong Zhao , Maoke Yang , Kuiyuan Yang , Yunhai Tong

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

Feature-based image matching has extensive applications in computer vision. Keypoints detected in images can be naturally represented as graph structures, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been shown to outperform traditional deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Xianfeng Song , Yi Zou , Zheng Shi , Zheng Liu

Optical flow is a useful input for various applications, including 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, tracking, and structure-from-motion. Despite its utility, the field of dense long-term tracking, especially over wide baselines, has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Tomáš Jelínek , Jonáš Šerých , Jiří Matas

3D scene flow estimation is a vital tool in perceiving our environment given depth or range sensors. Unlike optical flow, the data is usually sparse and in most cases partially occluded in between two temporal samplings. Here we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Bojun Ouyang , Dan Raviv

Object pose estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision and plays a critical role in virtual reality and embodied intelligence, where agents must understand and interact with objects in 3D space. Recently, score based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Diya He , Qingchen Liu , Cong Zhang , Jiahu Qin

Flow visualization technologies such as particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) are broadly used in understanding the all-pervasiveness three-dimensional (3D) turbulent flow from nature and industrial processes. Despite the advances in 3D…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-01 Jiaming Liang , Chao Xu , Shengze Cai

We propose a new self-supervised approach to image feature learning from motion cue. This new approach leverages recent advances in deep learning in two directions: 1) the success of training deep neural network in estimating optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Bin Ma , Shubao Liu , Yingxuan Zhi , Qi Song

Event cameras offer promising properties, such as high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. These benefits have been utilized into many machine vision tasks, especially optical flow estimation. Currently, most existing event-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Hao Zhuang , Xinjie Huang , Kuanxu Hou , Delei Kong , Chenming Hu , Zheng Fang

The optical flow estimation has been assessed in various applications. In this paper, we propose a novel method named motion edge structure difference(MESD) to assess estimation errors of optical flow fields on edge of motion objects. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Bin Liao , Jinlong Hu

Optical flow is a regression task where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to major breakthroughs. However, this comes at major computational demands due to the use of cost-volumes and pyramidal representations. This was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg

Modern optical flow methods make use of salient scene feature points detected and matched within the scene as a basis for sparse-to-dense optical flow estimation. Current feature detectors however either give sparse, non uniform point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Felix Stephenson , Toby Breckon , Ioannis Katramados

Event-based cameras have shown great promise in a variety of situations where frame based cameras suffer, such as high speed motions and high dynamic range scenes. However, developing algorithms for event measurements requires a new class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

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 the realm of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), flow-matching models have emerged as a powerhouse, achieving success due to their robust theoretical underpinnings and solid ability for large-scale generative modeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zemin Huang , Zhengyang Geng , Weijian Luo , Guo-jun Qi

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

Finding corresponding pixels within a pair of images is a fundamental computer vision task with various applications. Due to the specific requirements of different tasks like optical flow estimation and local feature matching, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Songyan Zhang , Xinyu Sun , Hao Chen , Bo Li , Chunhua Shen