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Normalizing flows (NFs) have become a prominent method for deep generative models that allow for an analytic probability density estimation and efficient synthesis. However, a flow-based network is considered to be inefficient in parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Sang-gil Lee , Sungwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Optical flow is a method aimed at predicting the movement velocity of any pixel in the image and is used in medicine and biology to estimate flow of particles in organs or organelles. However, a precise optical flow measurement requires…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

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

Inferring brain connectivity and structure \textit{in-vivo} requires accurate estimation of the orientation distribution function (ODF), which encodes key local tissue properties. However, estimating the ODF from diffusion MRI (dMRI)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-07 William Consagra , Lipeng Ning , Yogesh Rathi

This paper introduces, for the first time to our knowledge, physics-informed neural networks to accurately estimate the AC-OPF result and delivers rigorous guarantees about their performance. Power system operators, along with several other…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Rahul Nellikkath , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

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 estimation of optical flow and 6-DoF ego-motion, two fundamental tasks in 3D vision, has typically been addressed independently. For neuromorphic vision (e.g., event cameras), however, the lack of robust data association makes solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Wenpu Li , Bangyan Liao , Yi Zhou , Qi Xu , Pian Wan , Peidong Liu

A normalizing flow is an invertible mapping between an arbitrary probability distribution and a standard normal distribution; it can be used for density estimation and statistical inference. Computing the flow follows the change of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Derek Onken , Samy Wu Fung , Xingjian Li , Lars Ruthotto

Blood flow is sensitive to disease and provides insight into cardiac function, making flow field analysis valuable for diagnosis. However, while safer than radiation-based imaging and more suitable for patients with medical implants,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Viraj Patel , Lisa Kreusser , Katharine Fraser

We extend the concept of optical flow with spatiotemporal regularisation to a dynamic non-Euclidean setting. Optical flow is traditionally computed from a sequence of flat images. The purpose of this paper is to introduce variational motion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Clemens Kirisits , Lukas F. Lang , Otmar Scherzer

Optical flow estimation is one of the fundamental tasks in low-level computer vision, which describes the pixel-wise displacement and can be used in many other tasks. From the apparent aspect, the optical flow can be viewed as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yuhao Cheng , Siru Zhang , Yiqiang Yan

Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV) estimates the flow of fluid by analyzing the motion of injected particles. The problem is challenging as the particles lie at different depths but have similar appearance and tracking a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Zhong Li , Jinwei Ye , Yu Ji , Hao Sheng , Jingyi Yu

Rendering diffuse global illumination in real-time is often approximated by pre-computing and storing irradiance in a 3D grid of probes. As long as most of the scene remains static, probes approximate irradiance for all surfaces immersed in…

Morphing is a long-standing problem in vision and computer graphics, requiring a time-dependent warping for feature alignment and a blending for smooth interpolation. Recently, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been explored as implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Arthur Bizzi , Matias Grynberg , Vitor Matias , Daniel Perazzo , João Paulo Lima , Luiz Velho , Nuno Gonçalves , João Pereira , Guilherme Schardong , Tiago Novello

The study of high dimensional data sets often rely on their low dimensional projections that preserve the local geometry of the original space. While numerous methods have been developed to summarize this space as variations of tree-like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Guangzheng Zhang , Bingxian Xu

Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) captures temporally-resolved anatomy but is often challenged by limited sampling and motion-induced artifacts. Conventional motion-compensated reconstructions typically rely on pre-estimated optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Baoqing Li , Yuanyuan Liu , Congcong Liu , Qingyong Zhu , Jing Cheng , Yihang Zhou , Hao Chen , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Dong Liang

The Bayesian update step poses significant computational challenges in high-dimensional nonlinear estimation. While log-homotopy particle flow filters offer an alternative to stochastic sampling, existing formulations usually yield stiff…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Domonkos Csuzdi , Tamás Bécsi , Olivér Törő

Learning to solve the Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF) problem by neural networks (NNs) is a promising approach in real-time applications. Existing methods to ensure the physical feasibility of NN outputs embed a power flow…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiebao Zhang , Haoyu Yan , Zhichao Sheng , Hongwen Yu , Shuang Ye , Haoyu Wang , Ye Shi

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a widely adopted non-invasive imaging technique that tracks the motion of tracer particles across image sequences to capture the velocity distribution of fluid flows. It is commonly employed to analyze…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yunzhong Zhang , Bo Xiong , You Zhou , Changqing Su , Zhen Cheng , Zhaofei Yu , Xun Cao , Tiejun Huang

Particle flows of high particle concentration are important in many fields, including chemical processing, pharmaceutical processing, energy conversion and powder transport. However, despite decades of research and industrial application,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-06 Frank Shaffer , Balaji Gopalan