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Event-based cameras can overpass frame-based cameras limitations for important tasks such as high-speed motion detection during self-driving cars navigation in low illumination conditions. The event cameras' high temporal resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Haixin Sun , Minh-Quan Dao , Vincent Fremont

Motion detection is a fundamental but challenging task for autonomous driving. In particular scenes like highway, remote objects have to be paid extra attention for better controlling decision. Aiming at distant vehicles, we train a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Ka Man Lo

Autonomous flight of pocket drones is challenging due to the severe limitations on on-board energy, sensing, and processing power. However, tiny drones have great potential as their small size allows maneuvering through narrow spaces while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Kimberly McGuire , Guido de Croon , Christophe de Wagter , Bart Remes , Karl Tuyls , Hilbert Kappen

Optical flow is a fundamental technique for motion estimation, widely applied in video stabilization, interpolation, and object tracking. Traditional optical flow estimation methods rely on restrictive assumptions like brightness constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu-Hsi Chen , Chin-Tien Wu

Event cameras capture brightness changes asynchronously with microsecond resolution, yet existing optical flow methods fail to fully exploit this temporal continuity. Frame-based approaches impose artificial accumulation latency and suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gunwoo Jeon , Chaesong Park , Jongwoo Lim

CNN-based optical flow estimation has attracted attention recently, mainly due to its impressively high frame rates. These networks perform well on synthetic datasets, but they are still far behind the classical methods in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Nima Sedaghat , Mohammadreza Zolfaghari , Thomas Brox

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental and long-standing visual task. In this work, we present a novel method, dubbed HMAFlow, to improve optical flow estimation in challenging scenes, particularly those involving small objects. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Dianbo Ma , Kousuke Imamura , Ziyan Gao , Xiangjie Wang , Satoshi Yamane

We propose a new multi-frame method for efficiently computing scene flow (dense depth and optical flow) and camera ego-motion for a dynamic scene observed from a moving stereo camera rig. Our technique also segments out moving objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Tatsunori Taniai , Sudipta N. Sinha , Yoichi Sato

Event-based cameras display great potential for a variety of tasks such as high-speed motion detection and navigation in low-light environments where conventional frame-based cameras suffer critically. This is attributed to their high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Chankyu Lee , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Alex Zihao Zhu , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis , Kaushik Roy

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

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle visual tasks in challenging scenarios. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sheng Zhong , Zhongyang Ren , Xiya Zhu , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermuller , Yi Zhou

Obtaining the ground truth labels from a video is challenging since the manual annotation of pixel-wise flow labels is prohibitively expensive and laborious. Besides, existing approaches try to adapt the trained model on synthetic datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yunhui Han , Kunming Luo , Ao Luo , Jiangyu Liu , Haoqiang Fan , Guiming Luo , Shuaicheng Liu

We introduce VideoFlow, a novel optical flow estimation framework for videos. In contrast to previous methods that learn to estimate optical flow from two frames, VideoFlow concurrently estimates bi-directional optical flows for multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xiaoyu Shi , Zhaoyang Huang , Weikang Bian , Dasong Li , Manyuan Zhang , Ka Chun Cheung , Simon See , Hongwei Qin , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown rapid progress in computer vision tasks, achieving promising results on various benchmarks. However, due to the massive number of parameters and model design, \textit{e.g.}, attention mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yanyu Li , Geng Yuan , Yang Wen , Ju Hu , Georgios Evangelidis , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

Making predictions of future frames is a critical challenge in autonomous driving research. Most of the existing methods for video prediction attempt to generate future frames in simple and fixed scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Henglai Wei , Xiaochuan Yin , Penghong Lin

With the rapid emergence of a spectrum of high-end mobile devices, many applications that required desktop-level computation capability formerly can now run on these devices without any problem. However, without a careful optimization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Wei Niu , Xiaolong Ma , Yanzhi Wang , Bin Ren

Recent advances in optical flow estimation have prioritized accuracy at the cost of growing GPU memory consumption, particularly for high-resolution (FullHD) inputs. We introduce MEMFOF, a memory-efficient multi-frame optical flow method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Vladislav Bargatin , Egor Chistov , Alexander Yakovenko , Dmitriy Vatolin

Event-based cameras have shown great promise in a variety of situations where frame based cameras suffer, such as high speed motions and high dynamic range scenes. However, developing algorithms for event measurements requires a new class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

Existing recurrent optical flow estimation networks are computationally expensive since they use a fixed large number of iterations to update the flow field for each sample. An efficient network should skip iterations when the flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Ri Cheng , Ruian He , Xuhao Jiang , Shili Zhou , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

This paper introduces a new method for inter-frame coding based on two complementary autoencoders: MOFNet and CodecNet. MOFNet aims at computing and conveying the Optical Flow and a pixel-wise coding Mode selection. The optical flow is used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 Théo Ladune , Pierrick Philippe , Wassim Hamidouche , Lu Zhang , Olivier Déforges