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Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have established a new state-of-the-art in generative image synthesis, yet their deployment is hindered by significant computational overhead during inference, often requiring up to 1,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Srishti Gupta , Yashasvee Taiwade

Depth from Focus estimates depth by determining the moment of maximum focus from multiple shots at different focal distances, i.e. the Focal Stack. However, the limited sampling rate of conventional optical cameras makes it difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Chenxu Jiang , Mingyuan Lin , Chi Zhang , Zhenghai Wang , Lei Yu

Event-based multimodal large language models (MLLMs) enable robust perception in high-speed and low-light scenarios, addressing key limitations of frame-based MLLMs. However, current event-based MLLMs often rely on dense image-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shaoyu Liu , Jianing Li , Guanghui Zhao , Yunjian Zhang , Wen Jiang , Ming Li , Xiangyang Ji

Event cameras have higher temporal resolution, and require less storage and bandwidth compared to traditional RGB cameras. However, due to relatively lagging performance of event-based approaches, event cameras have not yet replace…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Muhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan , Abdul Hannan Khan , Andreas Dengel

Current optical flow methods exploit the stable appearance of frame (or RGB) data to establish robust correspondences across time. Event cameras, on the other hand, provide high-temporal-resolution motion cues and excel in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Qianang Zhou , Junhui Hou , Meiyi Yang , Yongjian Deng , Youfu Li , Junlin Xiong

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

Optical flow, which expresses pixel displacement, is widely used in many computer vision tasks to provide pixel-level motion information. However, with the remarkable progress of the convolutional neural network, recent state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Ruibing Jin , Guosheng Lin , Changyun Wen , Jianliang Wang , Fayao Liu

We propose DistSurf-OF, a novel optical flow method for neuromorphic cameras. Neuromorphic cameras (or event detection cameras) are an emerging sensor modality that makes use of dynamic vision sensors (DVS) to report asynchronously the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Mohammed Almatrafi , Raymond Baldwin , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Keigo Hirakawa

Generating high-quality time-series data is challenging because real-world signals often exhibit multimodal patterns and multiscale dynamics, including oscillations and high-frequency variations. Flow Matching (FM) offers an efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junru Zhang , Lang Feng , Jinbo Wang , Xu Guo , Yucheng Wang , Han Yu , Min Wu , Yabo Dong , Duanqing Xu

Object detection and tracking is an essential perception task for enabling fully autonomous navigation in robotic systems. Edge robot systems such as small drones need to execute complex maneuvers at high-speeds with limited resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Amogh Joshi , Arjun Roy , Rohan Kumar Manna , Manish Nagaraj , Kaushik Roy

We present CompactFlowNet, the first real-time mobile neural network for optical flow prediction, which involves determining the displacement of each pixel in an initial frame relative to the corresponding pixel in a subsequent frame.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Andrei Znobishchev , Valerii Filev , Oleg Kudashev , Nikita Orlov , Humphrey Shi

Optical flow techniques are becoming increasingly performant and robust when estimating motion in a scene, but their performance has yet to be proven in the area of facial expression recognition. In this work, a variety of optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Benjamin Allaert , Isaac Ronald Ward , Ioan Marius Bilasco , Chaabane Djeraba , Mohammed Bennamoun

Event-based video reconstruction has garnered increasing attention due to its advantages, such as high dynamic range and rapid motion capture capabilities. However, current methods often prioritize the extraction of temporal information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Lin Zhu , Yunlong Zheng , Yijun Zhang , Xiao Wang , Lizhi Wang , Hua Huang

Event cameras have the ability to record continuous and detailed trajectories of objects with high temporal resolution, thereby providing intuitive motion cues for optical flow estimation. Nevertheless, most existing learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Haotian Liu , Guang Chen , Sanqing Qu , Yanping Zhang , Zhijun Li , Alois Knoll , Changjun Jiang

In this work, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised learning for event cameras that learns motion information from only the event stream. In particular, we propose an input representation of the events in the form of a discretized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

This paper introduces a robust framework for motion segmentation and egomotion estimation using event-based normal flow, tailored specifically for neuromorphic vision sensors. In contrast to traditional methods that rely heavily on optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhiyuan Hua , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermüller

State-of-the-art scene flow algorithms pursue the conflicting targets of accuracy, run time, and robustness. With the successful concept of pixel-wise matching and sparse-to-dense interpolation, we push the limits of scene flow estimation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Christian Unger , Georg Kuschk , Didier Stricker

Event-based motion field estimation is an important task. However, current optical flow methods face challenges: learning-based approaches, often frame-based and relying on CNNs, lack cross-domain transferability, while model-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dehao Yuan , Levi Burner , Jiayi Wu , Minghui Liu , Jingxi Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermüller

Using a layered representation for motion estimation has the advantage of being able to cope with discontinuities and occlusions. In this paper, we learn to estimate optical flow by combining a layered motion representation with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Xi Zhang , Di Ma , Xu Ouyang , Shanshan Jiang , Lin Gan , Gady Agam

Flow matching casts sample generation as learning a continuous-time velocity field that transports noise to data. Existing flow matching networks typically predict each point's velocity independently, considering only its location and time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Md Shahriar Rahim Siddiqui , Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber