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Event-based vision sensors offer asynchronous, high-temporal-resolution measurements that are attractive for low-latency robotic perception, but many event-based motion estimation methods are computationally intensive and difficult to map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Arianna Alonso Bizzi , Fernando Cladera , C. J. Taylor

We propose the use of a Transformer to accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous learning-based methods utilize PointNet variants to explicitly extract multi-scale features at different input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Barry Shichen Hu , Siyun Liang , Johannes Paetzold , Huy H. Nguyen , Isao Echizen , Jiapeng Tang

Recently, the RGB images and point clouds fusion methods have been proposed to jointly estimate 2D optical flow and 3D scene flow. However, as both conventional RGB cameras and LiDAR sensors adopt a frame-based data acquisition mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zhexiong Wan , Yuxin Mao , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

Recent weakly-supervised methods for scene flow estimation from LiDAR point clouds are limited to explicit reasoning on object-level. These methods perform multiple iterative optimizations for each rigid object, which makes them vulnerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

We study the problem of self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation from real large-scale raw point cloud sequences, which is crucial to various tasks like trajectory prediction or instance segmentation. In the absence of ground truth scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Patrik Vacek , David Hurych , Tomáš Svoboda , Karel Zimmermann

Continuous-time event sequences, in which events occur at irregular intervals, are ubiquitous across a wide range of industrial and scientific domains. The contemporary modeling paradigm is to treat such data as realizations of a temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Gavin Kerrigan , Kai Nelson , Padhraic Smyth

In the domain of supervised scene flow estimation, the process of manual labeling is both time-intensive and financially demanding. This paper introduces SSFlowNet, a semi-supervised approach for scene flow estimation, that utilizes a blend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jingze Chen , Junfeng Yao , Qiqin Lin , Rongzhou Zhou , Lei Li

Collecting real-world optical flow datasets is a formidable challenge due to the high cost of labeling. A shortage of datasets significantly constrains the real-world performance of optical flow models. Building virtual datasets that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Miaojie Feng , Longliang Liu , Hao Jia , Gangwei Xu , Xin Yang

In this paper, we present a CNN-based fully unsupervised method for motion segmentation from optical flow. We assume that the input optical flow can be represented as a piecewise set of parametric motion models, typically, affine or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Etienne Meunier , Anaïs Badoual , Patrick Bouthemy

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

Scene flow estimation has been receiving increasing attention for 3D environment perception. Monocular scene flow estimation -- obtaining 3D structure and 3D motion from two temporally consecutive images -- is a highly ill-posed problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

With the advent of neuromorphic vision sensors such as event-based cameras, a paradigm shift is required for most computer vision algorithms. Among these algorithms, optical flow estimation is a prime candidate for this process considering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Mahmoud Z. Khairallah , Fabien Bonardi , David Roussel , Samia Bouchafa

Neural Scene Flow Prior (NSFP) and Fast Neural Scene Flow (FNSF) have shown remarkable adaptability in the context of large out-of-distribution autonomous driving. Despite their success, the underlying reasons for their astonishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Dongrui Liu , Daqi Liu , Xueqian Li , Sihao Lin , Hongwei xie , Bing Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Lei Chu

Scene flow is the task of estimating 3D motion vectors to individual points of a dynamic 3D scene. Motion vectors have shown to be beneficial for downstream tasks such as action classification and collision avoidance. However, data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Victor Zuanazzi

Previous dominant methods for scene flow estimation focus mainly on input from two consecutive frames, neglecting valuable information in the temporal domain. While recent trends shift towards multi-frame reasoning, they suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yushan Zhang , Yixi Cai , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

Modern optical flow methods make use of salient scene feature points detected and matched within the scene as a basis for sparse-to-dense optical flow estimation. Current feature detectors however either give sparse, non uniform point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Felix Stephenson , Toby Breckon , Ioannis Katramados

Normal estimation for 3D point clouds is a fundamental task in 3D geometry processing. The state-of-the-art methods rely on priors of fitting local surfaces learned from normal supervision. However, normal supervision in benchmarks comes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Kanle Shi , Yue Gao , Yi Fang , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

We propose a physics-informed data-driven framework for urban wind estimation. This framework validates and incorporates the Reynolds number independence for flows under various working conditions, thus allowing the extrapolation for wind…

Scene flow represents the motion of points in the 3D space, which is the counterpart of the optical flow that represents the motion of pixels in the 2D image. However, it is difficult to obtain the ground truth of scene flow in the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Xiaoyu Tian , Ruiqi Ding , Hesheng Wang

The performance of optical flow algorithms greatly depends on the specifics of the content and the application for which it is used. Existing and well established optical flow datasets are limited to rather particular contents from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gregory Schröder , Tobias Senst , Erik Bochinski , Thomas Sikora