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Tracking a point through a video can be a challenging task due to uncertainty arising from visual obfuscations, such as appearance changes and occlusions. Although current state-of-the-art discriminative models excel in regressing long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mattie Tesfaldet , Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

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

The main challenge of Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) is the efficiency in associating indefinite number of objects between video frames. Standard motion estimators used in tracking, e.g., Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), only deal with single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Jimuyang Zhang , Sanping Zhou , Jinjun Wang , Dong Huang

Initializing optical flow field by either sparse descriptor matching or dense patch matches has been proved to be particularly useful for capturing large displacements. In this paper, we present a pyramidal gradient matching approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Yuanwei Li

Point cloud sequences are commonly used to accurately detect 3D objects in applications such as autonomous driving. Current top-performing multi-frame detectors mostly follow a Detect-and-Fuse framework, which extracts features from each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chenhang He , Ruihuang Li , Yabin Zhang , Shuai Li , Lei Zhang

We propose to incorporate feature correlation and sequential processing into dense optical flow estimation from event cameras. Modern frame-based optical flow methods heavily rely on matching costs computed from feature correlation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mathias Gehrig , Mario Millhäusler , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Dense and versatile image representations underpin the success of virtually all computer vision applications. However, state-of-the-art networks, such as transformers, produce low-resolution feature grids, which are suboptimal for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Anna Sonnweber , Daniel Cremers

We introduce multigrid Predictive Filter Flow (mgPFF), a framework for unsupervised learning on videos. The mgPFF takes as input a pair of frames and outputs per-pixel filters to warp one frame to the other. Compared to optical flow used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Shu Kong , Charless Fowlkes

This work presents a framework for tracking head movements and capturing the movements of the mouth and both the eyebrows in real-time. We present a head tracker which is a combination of a optical flow and a template based tracker. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-01-04 E. R. Gast , Michael S. Lew

Persistent multi-object tracking (MOT) allows autonomous vehicles to navigate safely in highly dynamic environments. One of the well-known challenges in MOT is object occlusion when an object becomes unobservant for subsequent frames. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Mohamed Nagy , Majid Khonji , Jorge Dias , Sajid Javed

3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is an important part of the unmanned vehicle perception module. Most methods optimize object detection and data association independently. These methods make the network structure complicated and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yueling Shen , Guangming Wang , Hesheng Wang

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

In this paper, we propose a novel matching based tracker by investigating the relationship between template matching and the recent popular correlation filter based trackers (CFTs). Compared to the correlation operation in CFTs, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Fanghui Liu , Chen Gong , Xiaolin Huang , Tao Zhou , Jie Yang , Dacheng Tao

We propose WOFT -- a novel method for planar object tracking that estimates a full 8 degrees-of-freedom pose, i.e. the homography w.r.t. a reference view. The method uses a novel module that leverages dense optical flow and assigns a weight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jonas Serych , Jiri Matas

Tracking dense 3D motion from monocular videos remains challenging, particularly when aiming for pixel-level precision over long sequences. We introduce DELTA, a novel method that efficiently tracks every pixel in 3D space, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Tuan Duc Ngo , Peiye Zhuang , Chuang Gan , Evangelos Kalogerakis , Sergey Tulyakov , Hsin-Ying Lee , Chaoyang Wang

Despite recent advances, estimating optical flow remains a challenging problem in the presence of illumination change, large occlusions or fast movement. In this paper, we propose a novel optical flow estimation framework which can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Inchul Choi , Arunava Banerjee

Modern large displacement optical flow algorithms usually use an initialization by either sparse descriptor matching techniques or dense approximate nearest neighbor fields. While the latter have the advantage of being dense, they have the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Christian Bailer , Bertram Taetz , Didier Stricker

6D object pose tracking has been extensively studied in the robotics and computer vision communities. The most promising solutions, leveraging on deep neural networks and/or filtering and optimization, exhibit notable performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Nicola A. Piga , Yuriy Onyshchuk , Giulia Pasquale , Ugo Pattacini , Lorenzo Natale

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

We present a method for estimating dense continuous-time optical flow from event data. Traditional dense optical flow methods compute the pixel displacement between two images. Due to missing information, these approaches cannot recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mathias Gehrig , Manasi Muglikar , Davide Scaramuzza