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Recent work has shown that optical flow estimation can be formulated as a supervised learning task and can be successfully solved with convolutional networks. Training of the so-called FlowNet was enabled by a large synthetically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Nikolaus Mayer , Eddy Ilg , Philip Häusser , Philipp Fischer , Daniel Cremers , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle visual tasks in challenging scenarios. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sheng Zhong , Zhongyang Ren , Xiya Zhu , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermuller , Yi Zhou

Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

An event-based camera outputs an event whenever a change in scene brightness of a preset magnitude is detected at a particular pixel location in the sensor plane. The resulting sparse and asynchronous output coupled with the high dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Loïc J. Azzalini , Emmanuel Blazquez , Alexander Hadjiivanov , Gabriele Meoni , Dario Izzo

Event cameras provide a number of benefits over traditional cameras, such as the ability to track incredibly fast motions, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. However, their application into computer vision problems, many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Ziyun Wang , Kaung Khant , Kostas Daniilidis

Event cameras encode visual information with high temporal precision, low data-rate, and high-dynamic range. Thanks to these characteristics, event cameras are particularly suited for scenarios with high motion, challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Etienne Perot , Pierre de Tournemire , Davide Nitti , Jonathan Masci , Amos Sironi

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

Event cameras or dynamic vision sensors (DVS) record asynchronous response to brightness changes instead of conventional intensity frames, and feature ultra-high sensitivity at low bandwidth. The new mechanism demonstrates great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Bo Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

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

Collecting overhead imagery using an event camera is desirable due to the energy efficiency of the image sensor compared to standard cameras. However, event cameras complicate downstream image processing, especially for complex tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Darryl Hannan , Ragib Arnab , Gavin Parpart , Garrett T. Kenyon , Edward Kim , Yijing Watkins

This paper deals with the scarcity of data for training optical flow networks, highlighting the limitations of existing sources such as labeled synthetic datasets or unlabeled real videos. Specifically, we introduce a framework to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

Event cameras are innovative neuromorphic sensors that asynchronously capture the scene dynamics. Due to the event-triggering mechanism, such cameras record event streams with much shorter response latency and higher intensity sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yunhao Zou , Ying Fu , Tsuyoshi Takatani , Yinqiang Zheng

High-quality and challenging event stream datasets play an important role in the design of an efficient event-driven mechanism that mimics the brain. Although event cameras can provide high dynamic range and low-energy event stream data,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng

Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Haoyue Liu , Luxin Yan

Event cameras respond to changes in log-brightness at the millisecond level, making them ideal for optical flow estimation. However, existing datasets from event cameras provide only low frame rate ground truth for optical flow, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yaozu Ye , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Ze Wang , Xiaoting Yin , Lei Sun , Yaonan Wang , Kaiwei Wang

Recently, the RGB images and point clouds fusion methods have been proposed to jointly estimate 2D optical flow and 3D scene flow. However, as both conventional RGB cameras and LiDAR sensors adopt a frame-based data acquisition mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zhexiong Wan , Yuxin Mao , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Recent optical flow methods focus on training deep networks to approach the problem. However, the training data used by them does not cover the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Anurag Ranjan , David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Siyu Tang , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

There hardly exists any large-scale datasets with dense optical flow of non-rigid motion from real-world imagery as of today. The reason lies mainly in the required setup to derive ground truth optical flows: a series of images with known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hoàng-Ân Lê , Tushar Nimbhorkar , Thomas Mensink , Anil S. Baslamisli , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Optical flow is the motion of a pixel between at least two consecutive video frames and can be estimated through an end-to-end trainable convolutional neural network. To this end, large training datasets are required to improve the accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Roman Seidel , André Apitzsch , Gangolf Hirtz

Event-based motion field estimation is an important task. However, current optical flow methods face challenges: learning-based approaches, often frame-based and relying on CNNs, lack cross-domain transferability, while model-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dehao Yuan , Levi Burner , Jiayi Wu , Minghui Liu , Jingxi Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermüller