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We propose a framework to understand input-output amplification properties of non- linear partial differential equation (PDE) models of wall-bounded shear flows, which are spatially invariant in one coordinate (e.g., streamwise-constant…

Incorporating pre-collected offline data can substantially improve the sample efficiency of reinforcement learning (RL), but its benefits can break down when the transition dynamics in the offline dataset differ from those encountered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lingkai Kong , Haichuan Wang , Tonghan Wang , Guojun Xiong , Milind Tambe

Accurate polyp segmentation is of great importance for colorectal cancer diagnosis. However, even with a powerful deep neural network, there still exists three big challenges that impede the development of polyp segmentation. (i) Samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jun Wei , Yiwen Hu , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , S. Kevin Zhou , Shuguang Cui

This work presents DCFlow, a novel unsupervised cross-modal flow estimation framework that integrates a decoupled optimization strategy and a cross-modal consistency constraint. Unlike previous approaches that implicitly learn flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Runmin Zhang , Jialiang Wang , Si-Yuan Cao , Zhu Yu , Junchen Yu , Guangyi Zhang , Hui-Liang Shen

Uniform flow distribution across parallel channels directly impacts the performance and efficiency of many fluid and energy systems. However, designing efficient flow manifolds that ensure uniform flow distribution remains a challenge. This…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-06 Sanjay Vermani , Nitish Anand

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

Learning permutations is fundamental to sorting, ranking, and matching, but existing differentiable methods based on entropy-regularized Sinkhorn produce a single softened solution and collapse under ambiguity. We present PermFlow, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yimeng Min , Carla P. Gomes

Flow-based generative models, including diffusion models, excel at modeling continuous distributions in high-dimensional spaces. In this work, we introduce Flow Policy Optimization (FPO), a simple on-policy reinforcement learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 David McAllister , Songwei Ge , Brent Yi , Chung Min Kim , Ethan Weber , Hongsuk Choi , Haiwen Feng , Angjoo Kanazawa

The goal of this paper is to discover, segment, and track independently moving objects in complex visual scenes. Previous approaches have explored the use of optical flow for motion segmentation, leading to imperfect predictions due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Junyu Xie , Weidi Xie , Andrew Zisserman

Polyp segmentation has recently garnered significant attention, and multiple methods have been formulated to achieve commendable outcomes. However, these techniques often confront difficulty when working with the complex polyp foreground…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Quoc-Huy Trinh , Nhat-Tan Bui , Trong-Hieu Nguyen Mau , Minh-Van Nguyen , Hai-Minh Phan , Minh-Triet Tran , Hai-Dang Nguyen

Normalizing Flows are a promising new class of algorithms for unsupervised learning based on maximum likelihood optimization with change of variables. They offer to learn a factorized component representation for complex nonlinear data and,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Reuben Feinman , Nikhil Parthasarathy

Conventional physically based rendering (PBR) pipelines generate photorealistic images through computationally intensive light transport simulations. Although recent deep learning approaches leverage diffusion model priors with geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shenghao Zhang , Runtao Liu , Christopher Schroers , Yang Zhang

The sequential nature of autoregressive next-token prediction imposes a fundamental speed limit on large language models. While continuous flow models offer a path to parallel generation, they traditionally demand expensive iterative…

We present a framework to use recently introduced Capsule Networks for solving the problem of Optical Flow, one of the fundamental computer vision tasks. Most of the existing state of the art deep architectures either uses a correlation…

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Enhancing the efficiency of high-quality image generation using Diffusion Models (DMs) is a significant challenge due to the iterative nature of the process. Flow Matching (FM) is emerging as a powerful generative modeling paradigm based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Pascal Zwick , Nils Friederich , Maximilian Beichter , Lennart Hilbert , Ralf Mikut , Oliver Bringmann

In dense foggy scenes, existing optical flow methods are erroneous. This is due to the degradation caused by dense fog particles that break the optical flow basic assumptions such as brightness and gradient constancy. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wending Yan , Aashish Sharma , Robby T. Tan

Modeling stochastic dynamics from discrete observations is a key interdisciplinary challenge. Existing methods often fail to estimate the continuous evolution of probability densities from trajectories or face the curse of dimensionality.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ruikun Li , Jiazhen Liu , Huandong Wang , Qingmin Liao , Yong Li

Predicting flows that occur both through and around porous bodies is challenging due to coupled physics across fluid and porous regions and the need to generalize across diverse geometries and boundary conditions. We address this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Luigi Ciceri , Corrado Mio , Jianyi Lin , Gabriele Gianini

Modern optical flow methods are often composed of a cascade of many independent steps or formulated as a black box neural network that is hard to interpret and analyze. In this work we seek for a plain, interpretable, but learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Christoph Vogel , Patrick Knöbelreiter , Thomas Pock

For an autonomous vehicle it is essential to observe the ongoing dynamics of a scene and consequently predict imminent future scenarios to ensure safety to itself and others. This can be done using different sensors and modalities. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Andrea Ciamarra , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo