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Modern large displacement optical flow algorithms usually use an initialization by either sparse descriptor matching techniques or dense approximate nearest neighbor fields. While the latter have the advantage of being dense, they have the…

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The optical flow of natural scenes is a combination of the motion of the observer and the independent motion of objects. Existing algorithms typically focus on either recovering motion and structure under the assumption of a purely static…

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Despite impressive performance for high-level downstream tasks, self-supervised pre-training methods have not yet fully delivered on dense geometric vision tasks such as stereo matching or optical flow. The application of self-supervised…

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Accurate velocity estimation is critical in mobile robotics, particularly for driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. Wheel odometry fused with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data is a widely used method for velocity estimation;…

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We propose a continuous optimization method for solving dense 3D scene flow problems from stereo imagery. As in recent work, we represent the dynamic 3D scene as a collection of rigidly moving planar segments. The scene flow problem then…

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Predicting a potential collision with leading vehicles is an essential functionality of any autonomous/assisted driving system. One bottleneck of existing vision-based solutions is that their updating rate is limited to the frame rate of…

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Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel brightness changes.The high-temporal resolution and asynchronicity of event cameras offer great potential for estimating robot motion states. Recent works…

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Self-supervised methods have showed promising results on depth estimation task. However, previous methods estimate the target depth map and camera ego-motion simultaneously, underusing multi-frame correlation information and ignoring the…

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Gait recognition enables non-intrusive, privacy-preserving identification but suffers in uncontrolled environments due to illumination and motion sensitivity of conventional cameras. In this work, we explore gait recognition using event…

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Key-point-based scene understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving applications. At the same time, optical flow plays an important role in many vision tasks. However, due to the implicit bias of equal attention on all points, classic…

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Imposing consistency through proxy tasks has been shown to enhance data-driven learning and enable self-supervision in various tasks. This paper introduces novel and effective consistency strategies for optical flow estimation, a problem…

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Significant attention has been attracted to deep learning-based depth estimates. Dynamic objects become the most hard problems in inter-frame-supervised depth estimates due to the uncertainty in adjacent frames. Thus, integrating optical…

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In this paper, we explore the problem of event-based meshflow estimation, a novel task that involves predicting a spatially smooth sparse motion field from event cameras. To start, we review the state-of-the-art in event-based flow…

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Event cameras are novel bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level intensity changes in microsecond accuracy with a high dynamic range and low power consumption. Despite these advantages, event cameras cannot be directly applied to…

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This paper introduces a self-supervised learning framework designed for pre-training neural networks tailored to dense prediction tasks using event camera data. Our approach utilizes solely event data for training. Transferring achievements…

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Event cameras have shown promise in vision applications like optical flow estimation and stereo matching, with many specialized architectures leveraging the asynchronous and sparse nature of event data. However, existing works only focus…

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Event cameras are promising devices for lowlatency tracking and high-dynamic range imaging. In this paper,we propose a novel approach for 6 degree-of-freedom (6-DoF)object motion tracking that combines measurements of eventand frame-based…

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In recent years, many deep learning-based methods have been proposed to tackle the problem of optical flow estimation and achieved promising results. However, they hardly consider that most videos are compressed and thus ignore the…

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