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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

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

Video anomaly detection is a challenging task because of diverse abnormal events. To this task, methods based on reconstruction and prediction are wildly used in recent works, which are built on the assumption that learning on normal data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hongyong Wang , Xinjian Zhang , Su Yang , Weishan Zhang

Scene flow describes 3D motion in a 3D scene. It can either be modeled as a single task, or it can be reconstructed from the auxiliary tasks of stereo depth and optical flow estimation. While the second method can achieve real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Restoring images degraded by spatially varying blur is a problem encountered in many disciplines such as astrophysics, computer vision or biomedical imaging. One of the main challenges to perform this task is to design efficient numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Paul Escande , Pierre Weiss

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

Saliency maps are used to understand human attention and visual fixation. However, while very well established for static images, there is no general agreement on how to compute a saliency map of dynamic scenes. In this paper we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Aniello Raffaele Patrone , Christian Valuch , Ulrich Ansorge , Otmar Scherzer

Optical flow estimation remains challenging due to untextured areas, motion boundaries, occlusions, and more. Thus, the estimated flow is not equally reliable across the image. To that end, post-hoc confidence measures have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Anne S. Wannenwetsch , Margret Keuper , Stefan Roth

Two complementary approaches have been extensively used in signal and image processing leading to novel results, the sparse representation methodology and the variational strategy. Recently, a new sparsity based model has been proposed, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Raja Giryes , Michael Elad , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Inverse problems arise in a wide spectrum of applications in fields ranging from engineering to scientific computation. Connected with the rise of interest in inverse problems is the development and analysis of regularization methods, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Abinash Nayak

Estimating per-pixel motion between video frames, known as optical flow, is a long-standing problem in video understanding and analysis. Most contemporary optical flow techniques largely focus on addressing the cross-image matching with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Ao Luo , Fan Yang , Kunming Luo , Xin Li , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Depth map estimation is a crucial task in computer vision, and new approaches have recently emerged taking advantage of light fields, as this new imaging modality captures much more information about the angular direction of light rays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Yang Chen , Martin Alain , Aljosa Smolic

Event cameras capture changes of illumination in the observed scene rather than accumulating light to create images. Thus, they allow for applications under high-speed motion and complex lighting conditions, where traditional framebased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

This paper seeks to bridge the two major algorithmic approaches to sparse signal recovery from an incomplete set of linear measurements -- L_1-minimization methods and iterative methods (Matching Pursuits). We find a simple regularized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-03-15 Deanna Needell , Roman Vershynin

Optical flow is a classical task that is important to the vision community. Classical optical flow estimation uses two frames as input, whilst some recent methods consider multiple frames to explicitly model long-range information. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qiaole Dong , Yanwei Fu

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

We present a stereo-based dense mapping algorithm for large-scale dynamic urban environments. In contrast to other existing methods, we simultaneously reconstruct the static background, the moving objects, and the potentially moving but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Peidong Liu , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

Surgical instrument segmentation in laparoscopy is essential for computer-assisted surgical systems. Despite the Deep Learning progress in recent years, the dynamic setting of laparoscopic surgery still presents challenges for precise…

We propose a large displacement optical flow method that introduces a new strategy to compute a good local minimum of any optical flow energy functional. The method requires a given set of discrete matches, which can be extremely sparse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Roberto P. Palomares , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Coloma Ballester , Gloria Haro

In many applications it is important to estimate a fluid flow field from limited and possibly corrupt measurements. Current methods in flow estimation often use least squares regression to reconstruct the flow field, finding the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jared Callaham , Kazuki Maeda , Steven L. Brunton