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For visual estimation of optical flow, a crucial function for many vision tasks, unsupervised learning, using the supervision of view synthesis has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods, since ground-truth flow is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zitang Sun , Shin'ya Nishida , Zhengbo Luo

Optical flow techniques are becoming increasingly performant and robust when estimating motion in a scene, but their performance has yet to be proven in the area of facial expression recognition. In this work, a variety of optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Benjamin Allaert , Isaac Ronald Ward , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Chaabane Djeraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

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

Extracting information on fluid motion directly from images is challenging. Fluid flow represents a complex dynamic system governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. General optical flow methods are typically designed for rigid body motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Mingrui Zhang , Jianhong Wang , James Tlhomole , Matthew D. Piggott

We propose to incorporate feature correlation and sequential processing into dense optical flow estimation from event cameras. Modern frame-based optical flow methods heavily rely on matching costs computed from feature correlation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mathias Gehrig , Mario Millhäusler , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Given this, we devise an optical flow algorithm specifically for human motion and show that it is superior to generic flow methods. Designing a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Anurag Ranjan , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

In most of computer vision applications, motion blur is regarded as an undesirable artifact. However, it has been shown that motion blur in an image may have practical interests in fundamental computer vision problems. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Junsik Kim , Francois Rameau , Jae Won Cho , In So Kweon

Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

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

To apply optical flow in practice, it is often necessary to resize the input to smaller dimensions in order to reduce computational costs. However, downsizing inputs makes the estimation more challenging because objects and motion ranges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Hyunyoung Jung , Zhuo Hui , Lei Luo , Haitao Yang , Feng Liu , Sungjoo Yoo , Rakesh Ranjan , Denis Demandolx

Scene flow is a description of real world motion in 3D that contains more information than optical flow. Because of its complexity there exists no applicable variant for real-time scene flow estimation in an automotive or commercial vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 René Schuster , Christian Bailer , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Akin to many subareas of computer vision, the recent advances in deep learning have also significantly influenced the literature on optical flow. Previously, the literature had been dominated by classical energy-based models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

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

Existing optical flow methods make generic, spatially homogeneous, assumptions about the spatial structure of the flow. In reality, optical flow varies across an image depending on object class. Simply put, different objects move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Deqing Sun , Varun Jampani , Michael J. Black

Both optical flow and stereo disparities are image matches and can therefore benefit from joint training. Depth and 3D motion provide geometric rather than photometric information and can further improve optical flow. Accordingly, we design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Shuai Yuan , Carlo Tomasi

State-of-the-art scene flow algorithms pursue the conflicting targets of accuracy, run time, and robustness. With the successful concept of pixel-wise matching and sparse-to-dense interpolation, we push the limits of scene flow estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Christian Unger , Georg Kuschk , Didier Stricker

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is critical for a variety of real-world robotic applications. However, current learning-based methods often struggle to balance accuracy and computational efficiency: methods that achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhiyong Zhang , Aniket Gupta , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

End-to-end trained convolutional neural networks have led to a breakthrough in optical flow estimation. The most recent advances focus on improving the optical flow estimation by improving the architecture and setting a new benchmark on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 D. B. de Jong , F. Paredes-Vallés , G. C. H. E. de Croon

Optical flow computation is essential in the early stages of the video processing pipeline. This paper focuses on a less explored problem in this area, the 360$^\circ$ optical flow estimation using deep neural networks to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yiheng Li , Connelly Barnes , Kun Huang , Fang-Lue Zhang

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras (low latency, high dynamic range, low power, etc.). Optical flow estimation methods that work on packets of events trade off speed for accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego