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6D object pose tracking has been extensively studied in the robotics and computer vision communities. The most promising solutions, leveraging on deep neural networks and/or filtering and optimization, exhibit notable performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Nicola A. Piga , Yuriy Onyshchuk , Giulia Pasquale , Ugo Pattacini , Lorenzo Natale

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is a crucial component in various applications, including localization and mapping in robotics, object tracking, and activity recognition in computer vision. While recent learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiyong Zhang , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

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

The FlowNet demonstrated that optical flow estimation can be cast as a learning problem. However, the state of the art with regard to the quality of the flow has still been defined by traditional methods. Particularly on small displacements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Eddy Ilg , Nikolaus Mayer , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Recently, the dense correlation volume method achieves state-of-the-art performance in optical flow. However, the correlation volume computation requires a lot of memory, which makes prediction difficult on high-resolution images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zihua Zheng , Ni Nie , Zhi Ling , Pengfei Xiong , Jiangyu Liu , Hao Wang , Jiankun Li

Accurate estimation of sea ice drift is critical for Arctic navigation, climate research, and operational forecasting. While optical flow, a computer vision technique for estimating pixel wise motion between consecutive images, has advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Daniela Martin , Joseph Gallego

Modern optical flow methods make use of salient scene feature points detected and matched within the scene as a basis for sparse-to-dense optical flow estimation. Current feature detectors however either give sparse, non uniform point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Felix Stephenson , Toby Breckon , Ioannis Katramados

Recent advancements in neural network-based optical flow estimation often come with prohibitively high computational and memory requirements, presenting challenges in their model adaptation for mobile and low-power use cases. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Risheek Garrepalli , Jisoo Jeong , Rajeswaran C Ravindran , Jamie Menjay Lin , Fatih Porikli

Deep learning approaches to optical flow estimation have seen rapid progress over the recent years. One common trait of many networks is that they refine an initial flow estimate either through multiple stages or across the levels of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Optical flow estimation aims to find the 2D motion field by identifying corresponding pixels between two images. Despite the tremendous progress of deep learning-based optical flow methods, it remains a challenge to accurately estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Xiuchao Sui , Shaohua Li , Xue Geng , Yan Wu , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu , Rick Goh , Hongyuan Zhu

Optical Flow (OF) is the movement pattern of pixels or edges that is caused in a visual scene by the relative motion between an agent and a scene. OF is used in a wide range of computer vision algorithms and robotics applications. While the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Jonas Kühne , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

We introduce RAFT-Stereo, a new deep architecture for rectified stereo based on the optical flow network RAFT. We introduce multi-level convolutional GRUs, which more efficiently propagate information across the image. A modified version of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Lahav Lipson , Zachary Teed , Jia Deng

We present SMURF, a method for unsupervised learning of optical flow that improves state of the art on all benchmarks by $36\%$ to $40\%$ (over the prior best method UFlow) and even outperforms several supervised approaches such as PWC-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Austin Stone , Daniel Maurer , Alper Ayvaci , Anelia Angelova , Rico Jonschkowski

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

Significant progress has been made for estimating optical flow using deep neural networks. Advanced deep models achieve accurate flow estimation often with a considerable computation complexity and time-consuming training processes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang

Over four decades, the majority addresses the problem of optical flow estimation using variational methods. With the advance of machine learning, some recent works have attempted to address the problem using convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Tak-Wai Hui , Xiaoou Tang , Chen Change Loy

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

Recent progress in dense optical flow has been driven by increasingly complex architectures and multi-step refinement for test-time scaling. While these approaches achieve strong benchmark performance, they also require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Praroop Chanda , Suryansh Kumar

We propose MFT -- Multi-Flow dense Tracker -- a novel method for dense, pixel-level, long-term tracking. The approach exploits optical flows estimated not only between consecutive frames, but also for pairs of frames at logarithmically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Michal Neoral , Jonáš Šerých , Jiří Matas

Dense optical flow estimation plays a key role in many robotic vision tasks. In the past few years, with the advent of deep learning, we have witnessed great progress in optical flow estimation. However, current networks often consist of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Lingtong Kong , Chunhua Shen , Jie Yang