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We present FlowIt, a novel architecture for optical flow estimation designed to robustly handle large pixel displacements. At its core, FlowIt leverages a hierarchical transformer architecture that captures extensive global context,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sadra Safadoust , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Fatma Güney

Recent learning-based methods for event-based optical flow estimation utilize cost volumes for pixel matching but suffer from redundant computations and limited scalability to higher resolutions for flow refinement. In this work, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daikun Liu , Lei Cheng , Teng Wang , changyin Sun

Two optical flow estimation problems are addressed: i) occlusion estimation and handling, and ii) estimation from image sequences longer than two frames. The proposed ContinualFlow method estimates occlusions before flow, avoiding the use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Michal Neoral , Jan Šochman , Jiří Matas

The FlowNet demonstrated that optical flow estimation can be cast as a learning problem. However, the state of the art with regard to the quality of the flow has still been defined by traditional methods. Particularly on small displacements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Eddy Ilg , Nikolaus Mayer , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

The optical flow of natural scenes is a combination of the motion of the observer and the independent motion of objects. Existing algorithms typically focus on either recovering motion and structure under the assumption of a purely static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Jonas Wulff , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Michael J. Black

Few-step video generation has been significantly advanced by consistency distillation. However, the performance of consistency-distilled models often degrades as more sampling steps are allocated at test time, limiting their effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yuchao Gu , Guian Fang , Yuxin Jiang , Weijia Mao , Song Han , Han Cai , Mike Zheng Shou

Significant progress has been made for estimating optical flow using deep neural networks. Advanced deep models achieve accurate flow estimation often with a considerable computation complexity and time-consuming training processes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang

Traditional unsupervised optical flow methods are vulnerable to occlusions and motion boundaries due to lack of object-level information. Therefore, we propose UnSAMFlow, an unsupervised flow network that also leverages object information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Shuai Yuan , Lei Luo , Zhuo Hui , Can Pu , Xiaoyu Xiang , Rakesh Ranjan , Denis Demandolx

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

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

We present a novel up-resing technique for generating high-resolution liquids based on scene flow estimation using deep neural networks. Our approach infers and synthesizes small- and large-scale details solely from a low-resolution…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Bruno Roy , Pierre Poulin , Eric Paquette

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

Despite the progress of learning-based methods for 6D object pose estimation, the trade-off between accuracy and scalability for novel objects still exists. Specifically, previous methods for novel objects do not make good use of the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sungphill Moon , Hyeontae Son , Dongcheol Hur , Sangwook Kim

Video representation is a key challenge in many computer vision applications such as video classification, video captioning, and video surveillance. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for video representation that captures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Mohammadreza Babaee , David Full , Gerhard Rigoll

Estimating the 3D motion of points in a scene, known as scene flow, is a core problem in computer vision. Traditional learning-based methods designed to learn end-to-end 3D flow often suffer from poor generalization. Here we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yair Kittenplon , Yonina C. Eldar , Dan Raviv

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

Over four decades, the majority addresses the problem of optical flow estimation using variational methods. With the advance of machine learning, some recent works have attempted to address the problem using convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Tak-Wai Hui , Xiaoou Tang , Chen Change Loy

Numerical models have long been used to understand geoscientific phenomena, including tidal currents, crucial for renewable energy production and coastal engineering. However, their computational cost hinders generating data of varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Dongheon Lee , Seungmyong Jeong , Youngmin Ro

6D object pose estimation is crucial for robotic perception and precise manipulation. Occlusion and incomplete object visibility are common challenges in this task, but existing pose refinement methods often struggle to handle these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xin Liu , Shibei Xue , Dezong Zhao , Shan Ma , Min Jiang

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