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Large models have shown generalization across datasets for many low-level vision tasks, like depth estimation, but no such general models exist for scene flow. Even though scene flow has wide potential use, it is not used in practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yiqing Liang , Abhishek Badki , Hang Su , James Tompkin , Orazio Gallo

Existing rectified flow models are based on linear trajectories between data and noise distributions. This linearity enforces zero curvature, which can inadvertently force the image generation process through low-probability regions of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yan Luo , Drake Du , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

Tracking a point through a video can be a challenging task due to uncertainty arising from visual obfuscations, such as appearance changes and occlusions. Although current state-of-the-art discriminative models excel in regressing long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mattie Tesfaldet , Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Christopher Pal

Flow-based latent generative models such as Stable Diffusion 3 are able to generate images with remarkable quality, even enabling photorealistic text-to-image generation. Their impressive performance suggests that these models should also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Julius Erbach , Dominik Narnhofer , Andreas Dombos , Bernt Schiele , Jan Eric Lenssen , Konrad Schindler

Flow matching is a recent framework to train generative models that exhibits impressive empirical performance while being relatively easier to train compared with diffusion-based models. Despite its advantageous properties, prior methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Binh Nguyen , Anh Tran

Future frame prediction in videos is a promising avenue for unsupervised video representation learning. Video frames are naturally generated by the inherent pixel flows from preceding frames based on the appearance and motion dynamics in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Xiaodan Liang , Lisa Lee , Wei Dai , Eric P. Xing

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS) aims to detect the most prominent object in a video. Recently, two-stream approaches that leverage both RGB images and optical flow have gained significant attention, but their performance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Generative modeling aims to transform random noise into structured outputs. In this work, we enhance video diffusion models by allowing motion control via structured latent noise sampling. This is achieved by just a change in data: we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ryan Burgert , Yuancheng Xu , Wenqi Xian , Oliver Pilarski , Pascal Clausen , Mingming He , Li Ma , Yitong Deng , Lingxiao Li , Mohsen Mousavi , Michael Ryoo , Paul Debevec , Ning Yu

There hardly exists any large-scale datasets with dense optical flow of non-rigid motion from real-world imagery as of today. The reason lies mainly in the required setup to derive ground truth optical flows: a series of images with known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Hoàng-Ân Lê , Tushar Nimbhorkar , Thomas Mensink , Anil S. Baslamisli , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

Video diffusion models have rich world priors, but their use in spatial tasks is limited by poor control, spatial-temporal inconsistent results, and entangled scene-camera dynamics. Current approaches, such as per-task fine-tuning or…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chenxi Song , Yanming Yang , Tong Zhao , Ruibo Li , Chi Zhang

Flow matching models have shown great potential in image generation tasks among probabilistic generative models. However, most flow matching models in the literature do not explicitly utilize the underlying clustering structure in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Anirban Samaddar , Yixuan Sun , Viktor Nilsson , Sandeep Madireddy

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Rahul Ahuja , Chris Baker , Wilko Schwarting

While text-to-video diffusion models have made significant strides, many still face challenges in generating videos with temporal consistency. Within diffusion frameworks, guidance techniques have proven effective in enhancing output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Hyelin Nam , Jaemin Kim , Dohun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

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

Accurate estimation of large displacement optical flow remains a critical challenge. Existing methods typically rely on iterative local search or/and domain-specific fine-tuning, which severely limits their performance in large displacement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Dingxi Zhang , Fangjinhua Wang , Marc Pollefeys , Haofei Xu

Existing video deraining methods are often trained on paired datasets, either synthetic, which limits their ability to generalize to real-world rain, or captured by static cameras, which restricts their effectiveness in dynamic scenes with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Tuomas Varanka , Juan Luis Gonzalez , Hyeongwoo Kim , Pablo Garrido , Xu Yao

Video prediction is commonly referred to as forecasting future frames of a video sequence provided several past frames thereof. It remains a challenging domain as visual scenes evolve according to complex underlying dynamics, such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Hafez Farazi , Jan Nogga , Sven Behnke

Future motion representations, such as optical flow, offer immense value for control and generative tasks. However, forecasting generalizable spatially dense motion representations remains a key challenge, and learning such forecasting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Honglu Zhou , Yu Fang , Luyu Yang , Le Xue , Ran Xu , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Michael S Ryoo , Juan Carlos Niebles

Recent advances have reformulated diffusion models as deterministic ordinary differential equations (ODEs) through the framework of flow matching, providing a unified formulation for the noise-to-data generative process. Various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yan Luo , Henry Huang , Todd Y. Zhou , Mengyu Wang

Contrastive language-image pretraining has shown great success in learning visual-textual joint representation from web-scale data, demonstrating remarkable "zero-shot" generalization ability for various image tasks. However, how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Bolin Ni , Houwen Peng , Minghao Chen , Songyang Zhang , Gaofeng Meng , Jianlong Fu , Shiming Xiang , Haibin Ling