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We propose a data-driven scene flow estimation algorithm exploiting the observation that many 3D scenes can be explained by a collection of agents moving as rigid bodies. At the core of our method lies a deep architecture able to reason at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Zan Gojcic , Or Litany , Andreas Wieser , Leonidas J. Guibas , Tolga Birdal

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 is an extremely important task in computer vision to support the perception of dynamic changes in the scene. For robust scene flow, learning-based approaches have recently achieved impressive results using either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Rajai Alhimdiat , Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker , Wesam Ashour

Flow-matching models have recently emerged as a powerful framework for continuous generative modeling, including 3D point cloud synthesis. However, their deployment is limited by the need for multiple sequential sampling steps at inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Elaheh Akbari , Shansita Sharma , Ping He , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Kyungtae Han , Hamed Pirsiavash , Yikun Bai , Soheil Kolouri

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

Recent weakly-supervised methods for scene flow estimation from LiDAR point clouds are limited to explicit reasoning on object-level. These methods perform multiple iterative optimizations for each rigid object, which makes them vulnerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

Scene flow depicts the dynamics of a 3D scene, which is critical for various applications such as autonomous driving, robot navigation, AR/VR, etc. Conventionally, scene flow is estimated from dense/regular RGB video frames. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Haiyan Wang , Jiahao Pang , Muhammad A. Lodhi , Yingli Tian , Dong Tian

We propose a visual SLAM method by predicting and updating line flows that represent sequential 2D projections of 3D line segments. While feature-based SLAM methods have achieved excellent results, they still face problems in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Qiuyuan Wang , Zike Yan , Junqiu Wang , Fei Xue , Wei Ma , Hongbin Zha

State-of-the-art lidar-based 3D object detection methods rely on supervised learning and large labeled datasets. However, annotating lidar data is resource-consuming, and depending only on supervised learning limits the applicability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ekim Yurtsever , Emeç Erçelik , Mingyu Liu , Zhijie Yang , Hanzhen Zhang , Pınar Topçam , Maximilian Listl , Yılmaz Kaan Çaylı , Alois Knoll

Scene flow is the three-dimensional (3D) motion field of a scene. It provides information about the spatial arrangement and rate of change of objects in dynamic environments. Current learning-based approaches seek to estimate the scene flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jhony Kaesemodel Pontes , James Hays , Simon Lucey

Scene flow estimation, which extracts point-wise motion between scenes, is becoming a crucial task in many computer vision tasks. However, all of the existing estimation methods utilize only the unidirectional features, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Wencan Cheng , Jong Hwan Ko

The interest in 3D dynamical tracking is growing in fields such as robotics, biology and fluid dynamics. Recently, a major source of progress in 3D tracking has been the study of collective behaviour in biological systems, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Andrea Cavagna , Chiara Creato , Lorenzo Del Castello , Stefania Melillo , Leonardo Parisi , Massimiliano Viale

Understanding 3D scenes is a critical prerequisite for autonomous agents. Recently, LiDAR and other sensors have made large amounts of data available in the form of temporal sequences of point cloud frames. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Pan He , Patrick Emami , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

The proposed RMS-FlowNet is a novel end-to-end learning-based architecture for accurate and efficient scene flow estimation which can operate on point clouds of high density. For hierarchical scene flow estimation, the existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani , Didier Stricker

Scene flow characterizes the 3D motion between two LiDAR scans captured by an autonomous vehicle at nearby timesteps. Prevalent methods consider scene flow as point-wise unconstrained flow vectors that can be learned by either large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yancong Lin , Holger Caesar

LiDAR scene flow is the task of estimating per-point 3D motion between consecutive point clouds. Recent methods achieve centimeter-level accuracy on popular autonomous vehicle (AV) datasets, but are typically only trained and evaluated on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Siyi Li , Qingwen Zhang , Ishan Khatri , Kyle Vedder , Eric Eaton , Deva Ramanan , Neehar Peri

Scene flow estimation aims to recover per-point motion from two adjacent LiDAR scans. However, in real-world applications such as autonomous driving, points rarely move independently of others, especially for nearby points belonging to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yancong Lin , Shiming Wang , Liangliang Nan , Julian Kooij , Holger Caesar

Scene flow is the task of estimating 3D motion vectors to individual points of a dynamic 3D scene. Motion vectors have shown to be beneficial for downstream tasks such as action classification and collision avoidance. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Victor Zuanazzi

Scene flow represents the 3D motion of each point in the scene, which explicitly describes the distance and the direction of each point's movement. Scene flow estimation is used in various applications such as autonomous driving fields,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Guangming Wang , Zhiheng Feng , Chaokang Jiang , Hesheng Wang

Accurate perception of the dynamic environment is a fundamental task for autonomous driving and robot systems. This paper introduces Let Occ Flow, the first self-supervised work for joint 3D occupancy and occupancy flow prediction using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yili Liu , Linzhan Mou , Xuan Yu , Chenrui Han , Sitong Mao , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang