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Due to the scarcity of annotated scene flow data, self-supervised scene flow learning in point clouds has attracted increasing attention. In the self-supervised manner, establishing correspondences between two point clouds to approximate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Ruibo Li , Guosheng Lin , Lihua Xie

A steady momentum of innovations and breakthroughs has convincingly pushed the limits of unsupervised image representation learning. Compared to static 2D images, video has one more dimension (time). The inherent supervision existing in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Ting Yao , Yiheng Zhang , Zhaofan Qiu , Yingwei Pan , Tao Mei

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a classical flow estimation problem which is widely considered and utilised, especially as a diagnostic tool in experimental fluid dynamics and the remote sensing of environmental flows. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Mingrui Zhang , Matthew D. Piggott

Supervised and unsupervised techniques have demonstrated the potential for temporal interpolation of video data. Nevertheless, most prevailing temporal interpolation techniques hinge on optical flow, which encodes the motion of pixels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Nidhin Harilal , Bri-Mathias Hodge , Aneesh Subramanian , Claire Monteleoni

Optical flow is a fundamental technique for motion estimation, widely applied in video stabilization, interpolation, and object tracking. Traditional optical flow estimation methods rely on restrictive assumptions like brightness constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu-Hsi Chen , Chin-Tien Wu

Self-supervised approaches for video have shown impressive results in video understanding tasks. However, unlike early works that leverage temporal self-supervision, current state-of-the-art methods primarily rely on tasks from the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Simon Jenni , Mubarak Shah

We present an unsupervised learning approach for optical flow estimation by improving the upsampling and learning of pyramid network. We design a self-guided upsample module to tackle the interpolation blur problem caused by bilinear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Kunming Luo , Chuan Wang , Shuaicheng Liu , Haoqiang Fan , Jue Wang , Jian Sun

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Given this, we devise an optical flow algorithm specifically for human motion and show that it is superior to generic flow methods. Designing a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Anurag Ranjan , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

This work presents DCFlow, a novel unsupervised cross-modal flow estimation framework that integrates a decoupled optimization strategy and a cross-modal consistency constraint. Unlike previous approaches that implicitly learn flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Runmin Zhang , Jialiang Wang , Si-Yuan Cao , Zhu Yu , Junchen Yu , Guangyi Zhang , Hui-Liang Shen

3D Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) provides comprehensive scene geometry and semantics for autonomous driving perception, which is crucial for enabling accurate and reliable decision-making. However, existing SSC methods are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Meng Wang , Fan Wu , Ruihui Li , Yunchuan Qin , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

Occlusions play an important role in disparity and optical flow estimation, since matching costs are not available in occluded areas and occlusions indicate depth or motion boundaries. Moreover, occlusions are relevant for motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Eddy Ilg , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Thomas Brox

Semantic occupancy has recently gained significant traction as a prominent 3D scene representation. However, most existing methods rely on large and costly datasets with fine-grained 3D voxel labels for training, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Simon Boeder , Fabian Gigengack , Benjamin Risse

Semi-Supervised Learning can be more beneficial for the video domain compared to images because of its higher annotation cost and dimensionality. Besides, any video understanding task requires reasoning over both spatial and temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah

Optical flow estimation is a basic task in self-driving and robotics systems, which enables to temporally interpret traffic scenes. Autonomous vehicles clearly benefit from the ultra-wide Field of View (FoV) offered by 360{\deg} panoramic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hao Shi , Yifan Zhou , Kailun Yang , Xiaoting Yin , Ze Wang , Yaozu Ye , Zhe Yin , Shi Meng , Peng Li , Kaiwei Wang

We propose to modify the common training protocols of optical flow, leading to sizable accuracy improvements without adding to the computational complexity of the training process. The improvement is based on observing the bias in sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Aviram Bar-Haim , Lior Wolf

Extracting information on fluid motion directly from images is challenging. Fluid flow represents a complex dynamic system governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. General optical flow methods are typically designed for rigid body motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mingrui Zhang , Jianhong Wang , James Tlhomole , Matthew D. Piggott

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

Accurate monocular depth estimation is a fundamental component of vision-based perception systems in intelligent transportation applications. Despite recent progress, unsupervised monocular approaches still suffer from significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yufan Zhu , Chongzhi Ran , Mingtao Feng , Le Dong , Weisheng Dong , Antonio M. López

High-resolution multi-modality information acquired by vision-based tactile sensors can support more dexterous manipulations for robot fingers. Optical flow is low-level information directly obtained by vision-based tactile sensors, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhiyuan Zhang , Hua Yang , Zhouping Yin

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