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Optical flow is the motion of a pixel between at least two consecutive video frames and can be estimated through an end-to-end trainable convolutional neural network. To this end, large training datasets are required to improve the accuracy…

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A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…

Large displacement optical flow is an integral part of many computer vision tasks. Variational optical flow techniques based on a coarse-to-fine scheme interpolate sparse matches and locally optimize an energy model conditioned on colour,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Qiao Chen , Charalambos Poullis

Phase-averaging is a fundamental approach for investigating periodic and non-stationary phenomena. In fluid dynamics, these can be generated by rotating blades such as propellers/turbines or by pulsed jets. Traditional phase-averaging…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-20 Enrico Amico , Sara Montagner , Jacopo Serpieri , Gioacchino Cafiero

This paper studies optical flow estimation, a critical task in motion analysis with applications in autonomous navigation, action recognition, and film production. Traditional optical flow methods require consecutive frames, which are often…

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This paper investigates inverse source problems for time-dependent electromagnetic waves governed by Maxwell's equations. After applying the Fourier transform with respect to time, the problem leads to a frequency-domain electromagnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Fenglin Sun , Hongxia Guo

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a micrometer-scale, volumetric imaging modality that has become a clinical standard in ophthalmology. OCT instruments image by raster-scanning a focused light spot across the retina, acquiring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Stefan Ploner , Siyu Chen , Jungeun Won , Lennart Husvogt , Katharina Breininger , Julia Schottenhamml , James Fujimoto , Andreas Maier

In this paper, we consider two time-harmonic inverse scattering problems of reconstructing penetrable inhomogeneous obstacles from near field measurements. First we appeal to the Born approximation for reconstructing small isotropic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Isaac Harris , Scott Rome

A coherent phase-contrast optical system has been designed and tested for tomographic imaging of pressure fields from experimental transient acoustic signals. The system is similar to the pulsed, central-order schlieren method, but uses a…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-21 G. T. Clement , S. V. Letcher

Holography is an established technique for measuring the wavefront of optical signals through interferometric combination with a reference wave. Conventionally the integration time of a hologram is limited by the interferometer coherence…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-13 Guillaume Thekkadath , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

We address unsupervised optical flow estimation for ego-centric motion. We argue that optical flow can be cast as a geometrical warping between two successive video frames and devise a deep architecture to estimate such transformation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Stefano Alletto , Davide Abati , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara , Luca Rigazio

Inaccurate optical flow estimates in and near occluded regions, and out-of-boundary regions are two of the current significant limitations of optical flow estimation algorithms. Recent state-of-the-art optical flow estimation algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Fisseha Admasu Ferede , Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian

We present a new lightweight CNN-based algorithm for multi-frame optical flow estimation. Our solution introduces a double recurrence over spatial scale and time through repeated use of a generic "STaR" (SpatioTemporal Recurrent) cell. It…

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We report the realization of a new iterative Fourier-transform algorithm for creating holograms that can diffract light into an arbitrary two-dimensional intensity profile. We show that the predicted intensity distributions are smooth with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Pasienski , B. DeMarco

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

Scene flow prediction is a crucial underlying task in understanding dynamic scenes as it offers fundamental motion information. However, contemporary scene flow methods encounter three major challenges. Firstly, flow estimation solely based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Zhiyang Lu , Qinghan Chen , Ming Cheng

In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of optical diffraction tomography (ODT) for the scenario of a microscopic rigid particle rotating in a trap created, for instance, by acoustic or optical forces. Under the influence…

The aim of this paper is to propose for the first time a reconstruction scheme and a stability result for recovering from acoustic-optic data absorption distributions with bounded variation. The paper extends earlier results on smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Habib Ammari , Loc Hoang Nguyen , Laurent Seppecher

It is well known that classical formulations resembling the Horn and Schunck model are still largely competitive due to the modern implementation practices. In most cases, these models outperform many modern flow estimation methods. In view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Hirak Doshi , N. Uday Kiran

In this paper we describe a numerical method designed for modelling different kinds of astrophysical flows in three dimensions. Our method is a standard explicit finite difference method employing the local shearing-box technique. To model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. E. Caunt , M. J. Korpi