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Rectified-flow-based diffusion transformers like FLUX and OpenSora have demonstrated outstanding performance in the field of image and video generation. Despite their robust generative capabilities, these models often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jiangshan Wang , Junfu Pu , Zhongang Qi , Jiayi Guo , Yue Ma , Nisha Huang , Yuxin Chen , Xiu Li , Ying Shan

LiDAR scene generation is critical for mitigating real-world LiDAR data collection costs and enhancing the robustness of downstream perception tasks in autonomous driving. However, existing methods commonly struggle to capture geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jiuming Liu , Zheng Huang , Mengmeng Liu , Tianchen Deng , Francesco Nex , Hao Cheng , Hesheng Wang

Current deep learning approaches in computer vision primarily focus on RGB data sacrificing information. In contrast, RAW images offer richer representation, which is crucial for precise recognition, particularly in challenging conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Christoph Reinders , Radu Berdan , Beril Besbinar , Junji Otsuka , Daisuke Iso

Diffusion and flow-matching models achieve remarkable generative performance but at the cost of many sampling steps, this slows inference and limits applicability to time-critical tasks. The ReFlow procedure can accelerate sampling by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Beomsu Kim , Yu-Guan Hsieh , Michal Klein , Marco Cuturi , Jong Chul Ye , Bahjat Kawar , James Thornton

It is a significant problem to predict the 2D LiDAR map at next moment for robotics navigation and path-planning. To tackle this problem, we resort to the motion flow between adjacent maps, as motion flow is a powerful tool to process and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yafei Song , Yonghong Tian , Gang Wang , Mingyang Li

By enabling capturing of 3D point clouds that reflect the geometry of the immediate environment, LiDAR has emerged as a primary sensor for autonomous systems. If a LiDAR scan is too sparse, occluded by obstacles, or too small in range,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

In this paper we propose a novel approach to estimate dense optical flow from sparse lidar data acquired on an autonomous vehicle. This is intended to be used as a drop-in replacement of any image-based optical flow system when images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Victor Vaquero , Alberto Sanfeliu , Francesc Moreno-Noguer

The use of machine learning in fluid dynamics is becoming more common to expedite the computation when solving forward and inverse problems of partial differential equations. Yet, a notable challenge with existing convolutional neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-10 Siming Shan , Pengkai Wang , Song Chen , Jiaxu Liu , Chao Xu , Shengze Cai

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR), yet their reliance on time-consuming multi-step sampling largely hinders their practical applications. While recent efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiaqi Xu , Wenbo Li , Haoze Sun , Fan Li , Zhixin Wang , Long Peng , Jingjing Ren , Haoran Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Renjing Pei , Pheng-Ann Heng

In this work, we present LaserFlow, an efficient method for 3D object detection and motion forecasting from LiDAR. Unlike the previous work, our approach utilizes the native range view representation of the LiDAR, which enables our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Gregory P. Meyer , Jake Charland , Shreyash Pandey , Ankit Laddha , Shivam Gautam , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl K. Wellington

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks through high-fidelity outputs, yet flow matching (FM) offers faster inference and empirical performance gains. However, current foundation FM models are computationally prohibitive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Frank Fundel , Björn Ommer

Simulating realistic sensors is a challenging part in data generation for autonomous systems, often involving carefully handcrafted sensor design, scene properties, and physics modeling. To alleviate this, we introduce a pipeline for…

Taming the generation outcome of state of the art Diffusion and Flow-Matching (FM) models without having to re-train a task-specific model unlocks a powerful tool for solving inverse problems, conditional generation, and controlled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Heli Ben-Hamu , Omri Puny , Itai Gat , Brian Karrer , Uriel Singer , Yaron Lipman

In the quest to build generative surrogate models as computationally efficient alternatives to rule-based simulations, the quality of the generated samples remains a crucial frontier. So far, normalizing flows have been among the models…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-05 Thorsten Buss , Frank Gaede , Gregor Kasieczka , Claudius Krause , David Shih

Modeling and forecasting subsurface multiphase fluid flow fields underpin applications ranging from geological CO2 sequestration (GCS) operations to geothermal production. This is essential for ensuring both operational performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Vittoria De Pellegrini , Tariq Alkhalifah

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

Flow models are effective at progressively generating realistic images, but they generally struggle to capture long-range dependencies during the generation process as they compress all the information from previous time steps into a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mude Hui , Rui-Jie Zhu , Songlin Yang , Yu Zhang , Zirui Wang , Yuyin Zhou , Jason Eshraghian , Cihang Xie

Diffusion models have greatly improved visual generation but are hindered by slow generation speed due to the computationally intensive nature of solving generative ODEs. Rectified flow, a widely recognized solution, improves generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Fu-Yun Wang , Ling Yang , Zhaoyang Huang , Mengdi Wang , Hongsheng Li

We present a generative AI algorithm for addressing the pressing task of fast, accurate, and robust statistical computation of three-dimensional turbulent fluid flows. Our algorithm, termed as GenCFD, is based on an end-to-end conditional…

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion/flow models have drawn considerable attention recently due to their remarkable ability to deliver flexible visual creations. Still, high-resolution image synthesis presents formidable challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jiazi Bu , Pengyang Ling , Yujie Zhou , Pan Zhang , Tong Wu , Xiaoyi Dong , Yuhang Zang , Yuhang Cao , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang