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Optical flow is inherently a 2D search problem, and thus the computational complexity grows quadratically with respect to the search window, making large displacements matching infeasible for high-resolution images. In this paper, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Haofei Xu , Jiaolong Yang , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang , Xin Tong

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

To apply optical flow in practice, it is often necessary to resize the input to smaller dimensions in order to reduce computational costs. However, downsizing inputs makes the estimation more challenging because objects and motion ranges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Hyunyoung Jung , Zhuo Hui , Lei Luo , Haitao Yang , Feng Liu , Sungjoo Yoo , Rakesh Ranjan , Denis Demandolx

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is critical for a variety of real-world robotic applications. However, current learning-based methods often struggle to balance accuracy and computational efficiency: methods that achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhiyong Zhang , Aniket Gupta , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

In most of computer vision applications, motion blur is regarded as an undesirable artifact. However, it has been shown that motion blur in an image may have practical interests in fundamental computer vision problems. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Junsik Kim , Francois Rameau , Jae Won Cho , In So Kweon

Interpreting motion captured in image sequences is crucial for a wide range of computer vision applications. Typical estimation approaches include optical flow (OF), which approximates the apparent motion instantaneously in a scene, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Tanner D. Harms , Steven L. Brunton , Beverley J. McKeon

Optical flow estimation is a critical task for tiny mobile robotics to enable safe and accurate navigation, obstacle avoidance, and other functionalities. However, optical flow estimation on tiny robots is challenging due to limited onboard…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Sai Ramana Kiran Pinnama Raju , Rishabh Singh , Manoj Velmurugan , Nitin J. Sanket

Dense optical flow estimation plays a key role in many robotic vision tasks. In the past few years, with the advent of deep learning, we have witnessed great progress in optical flow estimation. However, current networks often consist of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Lingtong Kong , Chunhua Shen , Jie Yang

Optical Flow (OF) and depth are commonly used for visual odometry since they provide sufficient information about camera ego-motion in a rigid scene. We reformulate the problem of ego-motion estimation as a problem of motion estimation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Igor Slinko , Anna Vorontsova , Filipp Konokhov , Olga Barinova , Anton Konushin

Fast motion feedback is crucial in computer-aided surgery (CAS) on moving tissue. Image-assistance in safety-critical vision applications requires a dense tracking of tissue motion. This can be done using optical flow (OF). Accurate motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Sontje Ihler , Max-Heinrich Laves , Tobias Ortmaier

Optical flow, inspired by the mechanisms of biological visual systems, calculates spatial motion vectors within visual scenes that are necessary for enabling robotics to excel in complex and dynamic working environments. However, current…

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that asynchronously report intensity changes in microsecond resolution. DAVIS can capture high dynamics of a scene and simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Liyuan Pan , Miaomiao Liu , Richard Hartley

Gathering data and identifying events in various traffic situations remains an essential challenge for the systematic evaluation of a perception system's performance. Analyzing large-scale, typically unstructured, multi-modal, time series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Tayssir Bouraffa , Elias Kjellberg Carlson , Erik Wessman , Ali Nouri , Pierre Lamart , Christian Berger

We present an algorithm (SOFAS) to estimate the optical flow of events generated by a dynamic vision sensor (DVS). Where traditional cameras produce frames at a fixed rate, DVSs produce asynchronous events in response to intensity changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Timo Stoffregen , Lindsay Kleeman

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

This paper presents a novel method for detecting scene changes from a pair of images with a difference of camera viewpoints using a dense optical flow based change detection network. In the case that camera poses of input images are fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Ken Sakurada , Weimin Wang , Nobuo Kawaguchi , Ryosuke Nakamura

Optical flow estimation is a well-studied topic for automated driving applications. Many outstanding optical flow estimation methods have been proposed, but they become erroneous when tested in challenging scenarios that are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Senthil Yogamani

In moving camera videos, motion segmentation is commonly performed using the image plane motion of pixels, or optical flow. However, objects that are at different depths from the camera can exhibit different optical flows even if they share…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Manjunath Narayana , Allen Hanson , Erik Learned-Miller

Motion detection is a fundamental but challenging task for autonomous driving. In particular scenes like highway, remote objects have to be paid extra attention for better controlling decision. Aiming at distant vehicles, we train a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Ka Man Lo

Real-time moving object detection in unconstrained scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. In this paper, an optical flow based moving object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Jiagang Zhu , Zheng Zhu