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We propose a new multi-frame method for efficiently computing scene flow (dense depth and optical flow) and camera ego-motion for a dynamic scene observed from a moving stereo camera rig. Our technique also segments out moving objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Tatsunori Taniai , Sudipta N. Sinha , Yoichi Sato

LiDAR scene flow is the task of estimating per-point 3D motion between consecutive point clouds. Recent methods achieve centimeter-level accuracy on popular autonomous vehicle (AV) datasets, but are typically only trained and evaluated on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Siyi Li , Qingwen Zhang , Ishan Khatri , Kyle Vedder , Eric Eaton , Deva Ramanan , Neehar Peri

Underwater environments impose severe constraints on conventional imaging systems and demand solutions that balance high-quality sensing with strict resource efficiency. While emerging event cameras offer a promising alternative, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Pei Zhang , Yunkai Liang , Kaiqiang Wang

Optical flow estimation is a classical yet challenging task in computer vision. One of the essential factors in accurately predicting optical flow is to alleviate occlusions between frames. However, it is still a thorny problem for current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shangkun Sun , Yuanqi Chen , Yu Zhu , Guodong Guo , Ge Li

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

Real-time trajectory optimization for nonlinear constrained autonomous systems is critical and typically performed by CPU-based sequential solvers. Specifically, reliance on global sparse linear algebra or the serial nature of dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yilin Zou , Zhong Zhang , Maxime Robic , Fanghua Jiang

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

Calculating the correlation in a sliding window is a common method of statistical evaluation of the interconnect between two sets of data. And although the calculation of a single correlation coefficient is not resource-intensive and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Alexey Poyda , Mikhail Zhizhin

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

Estimating continuous optical flow is a fundamental yet challenging problem in dynamic visual perception. Event-based cameras, with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, capture brightness changes asynchronously, offering a unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rui Hu , Song Wu , Wen Yang , Jinjian Wu

This paper presents an approach to mutual collision avoidance based on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) with time-dependent Reciprocal Velocity Constraints (RVCs). Unlike most existing methods, the proposed approach relies solely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Vit Kratky , Robert Penicka , Parakh M. Gupta , Ondrej Prochazka , Martin Saska

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

An efficient hardware implementation for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods is of necessity for mobile autonomous robots with limited computational resources. In this paper, we propose a resource-efficient FPGA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Keisuke Sugiura , Hiroki Matsutani

An efficient numerical algorithm is presented for massively parallel simulations of dispersion-managed wavelength-division-multiplexed optical fiber systems. The algorithm is based on a weak nonlinearity approximation and independent…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. M. Lushnikov

The focus of this letter is on the reduction of the large pilot overhead in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We propose a novel joint channel estimation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Danilo Lelin Li , Arman Farhang

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

Recent applications in the domain of near-sensor computing require the adoption of floating-point arithmetic to reconcile high precision results with a wide dynamic range. In this paper, we propose a multi-core computing cluster that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Fabio Montagna , Stefan Mach , Simone Benatti , Angelo Garofalo , Gianmarco Ottavi , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi , Giuseppe Tagliavini

Optical flow estimation is crucial for various applications in vision and robotics. As the difficulty of collecting ground truth optical flow in real-world scenarios, most of the existing methods of learning optical flow still adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Sheng-Chi Huang , Wei-Chen Chiu

Efficient and real time segmentation of color images has a variety of importance in many fields of computer vision such as image compression, medical imaging, mapping and autonomous navigation. Being one of the most computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Roopal Nahar , Akanksha Baranwal , K. Madhava Krishna

The Reflow operation aims to straighten the inference trajectories of the rectified flow during training by constructing deterministic couplings between noises and images, thereby improving the quality of generated images in single-step or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jimin Dai , Jiexi Yan , Jian Yang , Lei Luo