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Recent work has shown that optical flow estimation can be formulated as a supervised learning task and can be successfully solved with convolutional networks. Training of the so-called FlowNet was enabled by a large synthetically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Nikolaus Mayer , Eddy Ilg , Philip Häusser , Philipp Fischer , Daniel Cremers , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Estimating the 3D motion of points in a scene, known as scene flow, is a core problem in computer vision. Traditional learning-based methods designed to learn end-to-end 3D flow often suffer from poor generalization. Here we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yair Kittenplon , Yonina C. Eldar , Dan Raviv

Unsupervised optical flow estimation is especially hard near occlusions and motion boundaries and in low-texture regions. We show that additional information such as semantics and domain knowledge can help better constrain this problem. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Shuai Yuan , Shuzhi Yu , Hannah Kim , Carlo Tomasi

Occlusions play an important role in disparity and optical flow estimation, since matching costs are not available in occluded areas and occlusions indicate depth or motion boundaries. Moreover, occlusions are relevant for motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Eddy Ilg , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Thomas Brox

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

Unsupervised anomaly detection and localization is crucial to the practical application when collecting and labeling sufficient anomaly data is infeasible. Most existing representation-based approaches extract normal image features with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jiawei Yu , Ye Zheng , Xiang Wang , Wei Li , Yushuang Wu , Rui Zhao , Liwei Wu

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

In this paper, we focus on designing effective method for fast and accurate scene parsing. A common practice to improve the performance is to attain high resolution feature maps with strong semantic representation. Two strategies are widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Xiangtai Li , Ansheng You , Zhen Zhu , Houlong Zhao , Maoke Yang , Kuiyuan Yang , Yunhai Tong

Akin to many subareas of computer vision, the recent advances in deep learning have also significantly influenced the literature on optical flow. Previously, the literature had been dominated by classical energy-based models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

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

Predicting the future occupancy states of the surrounding environment is a vital task for autonomous driving. However, current best-performing single-modality methods or multi-modality fusion perception methods are only able to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yining Shi , Kun Jiang , Ke Wang , Jiusi Li , Yunlong Wang , Mengmeng Yang , Diange Yang

In this work, we present LaserFlow, an efficient method for 3D object detection and motion forecasting from LiDAR. Unlike the previous work, our approach utilizes the native range view representation of the LiDAR, which enables our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Gregory P. Meyer , Jake Charland , Shreyash Pandey , Ankit Laddha , Shivam Gautam , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl K. Wellington

We present a self-supervised learning approach for optical flow. Our method distills reliable flow estimations from non-occluded pixels, and uses these predictions as ground truth to learn optical flow for hallucinated occlusions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Pengpeng Liu , Michael Lyu , Irwin King , Jia Xu

Extracting information on fluid motion directly from images is challenging. Fluid flow represents a complex dynamic system governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. General optical flow methods are typically designed for rigid body motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mingrui Zhang , Jianhong Wang , James Tlhomole , Matthew D. Piggott

Flow-matching models deliver state-of-the-art fidelity in image and video generation, but the inherent sequential denoising process renders them slower. Existing acceleration methods like distillation, trajectory truncation, and consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Dhruv Bhardwaj , Soumya Roy , Tejas Duseja , Harsh Agarwal , Aashay Sandansing , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Point cloud scene flow estimation is of practical importance for dynamic scene navigation in autonomous driving. Since scene flow labels are hard to obtain, current methods train their models on synthetic data and transfer them to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhao Jin , Yinjie Lei , Naveed Akhtar , Haifeng Li , Munawar Hayat

Unsupervised optical flow methods typically lack reliable uncertainty estimation, limiting their robustness and interpretability. We propose U$^{2}$Flow, the first recurrent unsupervised framework that jointly estimates optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xunpei Sun , Wenwei Lin , Yi Chang , Gang Chen

An efficient 3D scene flow estimation method called PointFlowHop is proposed in this work. PointFlowHop takes two consecutive point clouds and determines the 3D flow vectors for every point in the first point cloud. PointFlowHop decomposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Pranav Kadam , Jiahao Gu , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Event-based cameras can overpass frame-based cameras limitations for important tasks such as high-speed motion detection during self-driving cars navigation in low illumination conditions. The event cameras' high temporal resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Haixin Sun , Minh-Quan Dao , Vincent Fremont

Optical flow and disparity are two informative visual features for autonomous driving perception. They have been used for a variety of applications, such as obstacle and lane detection. The concept of "U-V-Disparity" has been widely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yi Feng , Ruge Zhang , Jiayuan Du , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan