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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable quality in multi-modal MRI synthesis, but their computational cost (hundreds of sampling steps and separate models per modality) limits clinical deployment. We observe that this inefficiency stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yalcin Tur , Mihajlo Stojkovic , Ulas Bagci

Many classical and learning-based optical flow methods rely on hierarchical concepts to improve both accuracy and robustness. However, one of the currently most successful approaches -- RAFT -- hardly exploits such concepts. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Azin Jahedi , Lukas Mehl , Marc Rivinius , Andrés Bruhn

Transformers, the standard implementation for large language models (LLMs), typically consist of tens to hundreds of discrete layers. While more layers can lead to better performance, this approach has been challenged as far from efficient,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yen-Chen Wu , Feng-Ting Liao , Meng-Hsi Chen , Pei-Chen Ho , Farhang Nabiei , Da-shan Shiu

We propose an image-based flow decomposition developed from the two-dimensional (2D) tensor empirical wavelet transform (EWT) (Gilles 2013). The idea is to decompose the instantaneous flow data, or its visualisation, adaptively according to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-24 Jie Ren , Xuerui Mao , Song Fu

One-shot object detection aims at detecting novel objects according to merely one given instance. With extreme data scarcity, current approaches explore various feature fusions to obtain directly transferable meta-knowledge. Yet, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yizhou Zhao , Xun Guo , Yan Lu

Optoacoustic imaging technologies require fast and accurate signal pre-processing algorithms to enable widespread deployment in clinical and home-care settings. However, they still rely on the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) as the default…

We present an optical flow estimation approach that operates on the full four-dimensional cost volume. This direct approach shares the structural benefits of leading stereo matching pipelines, which are known to yield high accuracy. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Jia Xu , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun

We propose MFT -- Multi-Flow dense Tracker -- a novel method for dense, pixel-level, long-term tracking. The approach exploits optical flows estimated not only between consecutive frames, but also for pairs of frames at logarithmically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Michal Neoral , Jonáš Šerých , Jiří Matas

Accurately localizing and segmenting relevant objects from optical remote sensing images (ORSIs) is critical for advancing remote sensing applications. Existing methods are typically built upon moderate-scale pre-trained models and employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yanguang Sun , Chao Wang , Jian Yang , Lei Luo

We introduce Tangent Attention Fine-Tuning (TAFT), a method for fine-tuning linearized transformers obtained by computing a First-order Taylor Expansion around a pre-trained initialization. We show that the Jacobian-Vector Product resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Tian Yu Liu , Aditya Golatkar , Stefano Soatto

Conditional flow matching (CFM) has emerged as a powerful framework for training continuous normalizing flows due to its computational efficiency and effectiveness. However, standard CFM often produces paths that deviate significantly from…

Recently, the dense correlation volume method achieves state-of-the-art performance in optical flow. However, the correlation volume computation requires a lot of memory, which makes prediction difficult on high-resolution images. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zihua Zheng , Ni Nie , Zhi Ling , Pengfei Xiong , Jiangyu Liu , Hao Wang , Jiankun Li

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

We present FlowIt, a novel architecture for optical flow estimation designed to robustly handle large pixel displacements. At its core, FlowIt leverages a hierarchical transformer architecture that captures extensive global context,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sadra Safadoust , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Fatma Güney

Existing models that achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on both clean and adversarially-perturbed images rely on convolution operations conditioned with feature-wise linear modulation (FiLM) layers. These layers require many new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Souvik Kundu , Sairam Sundaresan , Massoud Pedram , Peter A. Beerel

Pansharpening aims to fuse high-resolution panchromatic (PAN) images with low-resolution multispectral (LRMS) images to generate high-resolution multispectral (HRMS) images. Although deep learning-based methods have achieved promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zeyu Xia , Chenxi Sun , Tianyu Xin , Yubo Zeng , Haoyu Chen , Liang-Jian Deng

Normalizing flows are a class of probabilistic generative models which allow for both fast density computation and efficient sampling and are effective at modelling complex distributions like images. A drawback among current methods is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Jason J. Yu , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Marcus A. Brubaker

In this report, we present our optical flow approach, MS-RAFT+, that won the Robust Vision Challenge 2022. It is based on the MS-RAFT method, which successfully integrates several multi-scale concepts into single-scale RAFT. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Azin Jahedi , Maximilian Luz , Lukas Mehl , Marc Rivinius , Andrés Bruhn

We present SMURF, a method for unsupervised learning of optical flow that improves state of the art on all benchmarks by $36\%$ to $40\%$ (over the prior best method UFlow) and even outperforms several supervised approaches such as PWC-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Austin Stone , Daniel Maurer , Alper Ayvaci , Anelia Angelova , Rico Jonschkowski

Neural networks rely on convolutions to aggregate spatial information. However, spatial convolutions are expensive in terms of model size and computation, both of which grow quadratically with respect to kernel size. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Bichen Wu , Alvin Wan , Xiangyu Yue , Peter Jin , Sicheng Zhao , Noah Golmant , Amir Gholaminejad , Joseph Gonzalez , Kurt Keutzer