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Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem of computer vision and has many applications in the fields of robot learning and autonomous driving. This paper reveals novel geometric laws of optical flow based on the insight and detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Guangming Wang , Shuaiqi Ren , Hesheng Wang

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

Optical flow is a useful input for various applications, including 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, tracking, and structure-from-motion. Despite its utility, the field of dense long-term tracking, especially over wide baselines, has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Tomáš Jelínek , Jonáš Šerých , Jiří Matas

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Rahul Ahuja , Chris Baker , Wilko Schwarting

This work presents, to the best of the authors' knowledge, the first generalizable and fully data-driven adaptive framework designed to stabilize deep learning (DL) autoregressive forecasting models over long time horizons, with the goal of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-06 Rodrigo Abadía-Heredia , Manuel Lopez-Martin , Soledad Le Clainche

As a bio-inspired sensor with high temporal resolution, the spiking camera has an enormous potential in real applications, especially for motion estimation in high-speed scenes. However, frame-based and event-based methods are not well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Liwen Hu , Rui Zhao , Ziluo Ding , Lei Ma , Boxin Shi , Ruiqin Xiong , Tiejun Huang

Robust velocity and position estimation is crucial for autonomous robot navigation. The optical flow based methods for autonomous navigation have been receiving increasing attentions in tandem with the development of micro unmanned aerial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Chen Wang , Tete Ji , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Scene flow enables an understanding of the motion characteristics of the environment in the 3D world. It gains particular significance in the long-range, where object-based perception methods might fail due to sparse observations far away.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ajinkya Khoche , Qingwen Zhang , Laura Pereira Sanchez , Aron Asefaw , Sina Sharif Mansouri , Patric Jensfelt

The full 4D cost volume in Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms (RAFT) or global matching by Transformer achieves impressive performance for optical flow estimation. However, their memory consumption increases quadratically with input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Gangwei Xu , Shujun Chen , Hao Jia , Miaojie Feng , Xin Yang

Contrary to the ongoing trend in automotive applications towards usage of more diverse and more sensors, this work tries to solve the complex scene flow problem under a monocular camera setup, i.e. using a single sensor. Towards this end,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 René Schuster , Christian Unger , Didier Stricker

We introduce VideoFlow, a novel optical flow estimation framework for videos. In contrast to previous methods that learn to estimate optical flow from two frames, VideoFlow concurrently estimates bi-directional optical flows for multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiaoyu Shi , Zhaoyang Huang , Weikang Bian , Dasong Li , Manyuan Zhang , Ka Chun Cheung , Simon See , Hongwei Qin , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

Feature warping is a core technique in optical flow estimation; however, the ambiguity caused by occluded areas during warping is a major problem that remains unsolved. In this paper, we propose an asymmetric occlusion-aware feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Shengyu Zhao , Yilun Sheng , Yue Dong , Eric I-Chao Chang , Yan Xu

Recent visual object tracking methods have witnessed a continuous improvement in the state-of-the-art with the development of efficient discriminative correlation filters (DCF) and robust deep neural network features. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Tianyang Xu , Zhen-Hua Feng , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

State-of-the-art scene flow algorithms pursue the conflicting targets of accuracy, run time, and robustness. With the successful concept of pixel-wise matching and sparse-to-dense interpolation, we push the limits of scene flow estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Christian Unger , Georg Kuschk , Didier Stricker

Lack of texture often causes ambiguity in matching, and handling this issue is an important challenge in optical flow estimation. Some methods insert stacked transformer modules that allow the network to use global information of cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jiawei Xu , Zongqing Lu , Qingmin Liao

Unsupervised deep learning for optical flow computation has achieved promising results. Most existing deep-net based methods rely on image brightness consistency and local smoothness constraint to train the networks. Their performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Yiran Zhong , Pan Ji , Jianyuan Wang , Yuchao Dai , Hongdong Li

Despite tremendous recent progress, Flow Matching methods still suffer from exposure bias due to discrepancies in training and inference. This paper investigates the root causes of exposure bias in Flow Matching, including: (1) the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Guanbo Huang , Jingjia Mao , Fanding Huang , Fengkai Liu , Xiangyang Luo , Yaoyuan Liang , Jiasheng Lu , Xiaoe Wang , Pei Liu , Ruiliu Fu , Shao-Lun Huang

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

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

Channel estimation is a fundamental challenge in massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, where estimation accuracy governs the spectral efficiency and link reliability. In this work, we introduce Recursive Flow (RC-Flow), a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Zehua Jiang , Fenghao Zhu , Chongwen Huang , Richeng Jin , Zhaohui Yang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mérouane Debbah