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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

Scene flow estimation is a foundational task for many robotic applications, including robust dynamic object detection, automatic labeling, and sensor synchronization. Two types of approaches to the problem have evolved: 1) Supervised and 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 David T. Hoffmann , Syed Haseeb Raza , Hanqiu Jiang , Denis Tananaev , Steffen Klingenhoefer , Martin Meinke

Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

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

Temporal coherence is a valuable source of information in the context of optical flow estimation. However, finding a suitable motion model to leverage this information is a non-trivial task. In this paper we propose an unsupervised online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Daniel Maurer , Andrés Bruhn

We study the problem of self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation from real large-scale raw point cloud sequences, which is crucial to various tasks like trajectory prediction or instance segmentation. In the absence of ground truth scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Patrik Vacek , David Hurych , Tomáš Svoboda , Karel Zimmermann

3D scene flow characterizes how the points at the current time flow to the next time in the 3D Euclidean space, which possesses the capacity to infer autonomously the non-rigid motion of all objects in the scene. The previous methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Chaokang Jiang , Guangming Wang , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

Accurate perception of dynamic traffic scenes is crucial for high-level autonomous driving systems, requiring robust object motion estimation and instance segmentation. However, traditional methods often treat them as separate tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yinqi Chen , Meiying Zhang , Qi Hao , Guang Zhou

Optical flow estimation is an essential task in self-driving systems, which helps autonomous vehicles perceive temporal continuity information of surrounding scenes. The calculation of all-pair correlation plays an important role in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hao Shi , Yifan Zhou , Kailun Yang , Xiaoting Yin , Kaiwei Wang

Scene flow represents the motion of points in the 3D space, which is the counterpart of the optical flow that represents the motion of pixels in the 2D image. However, it is difficult to obtain the ground truth of scene flow in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Xiaoyu Tian , Ruiqi Ding , Hesheng Wang

Imposing consistency through proxy tasks has been shown to enhance data-driven learning and enable self-supervision in various tasks. This paper introduces novel and effective consistency strategies for optical flow estimation, a problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jisoo Jeong , Jamie Menjay Lin , Fatih Porikli , Nojun Kwak

We propose and study a method called FLOT that estimates scene flow on point clouds. We start the design of FLOT by noticing that scene flow estimation on point clouds reduces to estimating a permutation matrix in a perfect world. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Gilles Puy , Alexandre Boulch , Renaud Marlet

We present CompactFlowNet, the first real-time mobile neural network for optical flow prediction, which involves determining the displacement of each pixel in an initial frame relative to the corresponding pixel in a subsequent frame.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Andrei Znobishchev , Valerii Filev , Oleg Kudashev , Nikita Orlov , Humphrey Shi

Optical flow is a crucial component of the feature space for early visual processing of dynamic scenes especially in new applications such as self-driving vehicles, drones and autonomous robots. The dynamic vision sensors are well suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Himanshu Akolkar , SioHoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

We propose a continuous optimization method for solving dense 3D scene flow problems from stereo imagery. As in recent work, we represent the dynamic 3D scene as a collection of rigidly moving planar segments. The scene flow problem then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Zhaoyang Lv , Chris Beall , Pablo F. Alcantarilla , Fuxin Li , Zsolt Kira , Frank Dellaert

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

Scene flow estimation has been receiving increasing attention for 3D environment perception. Monocular scene flow estimation -- obtaining 3D structure and 3D motion from two temporally consecutive images -- is a highly ill-posed problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Scene flow estimation aims to generate the 3D motion field of points between two consecutive frames of point clouds, which has wide applications in various fields. Existing point-based methods ignore the irregularity of point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xuezhi Xiang , Xi Wang , Lei Zhang , Denis Ombati , Himaloy Himu , Xiantong Zhen

Learning-based optical flow estimation has been dominated with the pipeline of cost volume with convolutions for flow regression, which is inherently limited to local correlations and thus is hard to address the long-standing challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Haofei Xu , Jing Zhang , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Dacheng Tao