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Estimating continuous optical flow is a fundamental yet challenging problem in dynamic visual perception. Event-based cameras, with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, capture brightness changes asynchronously, offering a unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rui Hu , Song Wu , Wen Yang , Jinjian Wu

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

Rectified Flows learn ODE vector fields whose trajectories are straight between source and target distributions, enabling near one-step inference. We show that this straight-path objective conceals fundamental failure modes: under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Teodora Reu , Sixtine Dromigny , Michael Bronstein , Francisco Vargas

Flow matching has emerged as a promising framework for training generative models, demonstrating impressive empirical performance while offering relative ease of training compared to diffusion-based models. However, this method still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Trung Dao , Dimitris Metaxas , Anh Tran

Flow matching has recently emerged as a powerful alternative to diffusion models, providing a continuous-time formulation for generative modeling and representation learning. Yet, we show that this framework suffers from a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Weili Zeng , Yichao Yan

NeRF aims to learn a continuous neural scene representation by using a finite set of input images taken from various viewpoints. A well-known limitation of NeRF methods is their reliance on data: the fewer the viewpoints, the higher the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Matteo Bortolon , Alessio Del Bue , Fabio Poiesi

Typical attempts to improve the capability of visual place recognition techniques include the use of multi-sensor fusion and integration of information over time from image sequences. These approaches can improve performance but have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

Image watermarking supports authenticity and provenance, yet many schemes are still easy to bypass with various distortions and powerful generative edits. Deep learning-based watermarking has improved robustness to diffusion-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Utae Jeong , Sumin In , Hyunju Ryu , Jaewan Choi , Feng Yang , Jongheon Jeong , Seungryong Kim , Sangpil Kim

We introduce $\texttt{PairFlow}$, a lightweight preprocessing step for training Discrete Flow Models (DFMs) to achieve few-step sampling without requiring a pretrained teacher. DFMs have recently emerged as a new class of generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingue Park , Jisung Hwang , Seungwoo Yoo , Kyeongmin Yeo , Minhyuk Sung

Current feed-forward 3D/4D reconstruction systems rely on dense geometry and pose supervision -- expensive to obtain at scale and particularly scarce for dynamic real-world scenes. We present Flow3r, a framework that augments visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zhongxiao Cong , Qitao Zhao , Minsik Jeon , Shubham Tulsiani

Deep generative models have made rapid progress in image, text, audio, and video generation, and are increasingly being applied to structured records. For tabular data, however, generative modeling remains difficult: a dataset may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Lincen Yang , Jiayang Shi , Zhao Yang , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Matthijs van Leeuwen

We present a new implicit warping framework for image animation using sets of source images through the transfer of the motion of a driving video. A single cross- modal attention layer is used to find correspondences between the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Arun Mallya , Ting-Chun Wang , Ming-Yu Liu

While generative modeling has become prevalent across numerous research fields, its integration into the realm of image retrieval remains largely unexplored and underjustified. In this paper, we present a novel methodology, reframing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yidan Zhang , Ting Zhang , Dong Chen , Yujing Wang , Qi Chen , Xing Xie , Hao Sun , Weiwei Deng , Qi Zhang , Fan Yang , Mao Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jingdong Wang , Baining Guo

Unsupervised video object segmentation (VOS), also known as video salient object detection, aims to detect the most prominent object in a video at the pixel level. Recently, two-stream approaches that leverage both RGB images and optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Suhwan Cho , Minhyeok Lee , Jungho Lee , Donghyeong Kim , Seunghoon Lee , Sungmin Woo , Sangyoun Lee

Achieving chemical accuracy in quantum simulations is often constrained by the measurement bottleneck: estimating operators requires a large number of shots, which remains costly even on fault-tolerant devices and is further exacerbated on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Isaac L. Huidobro-Meezs , Jun Dai , Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández

This paper studies category-level object pose estimation based on a single monocular image. Recent advances in pose-aware generative models have paved the way for addressing this challenging task using analysis-by-synthesis. The idea is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jiaxin Guo , Fangxun Zhong , Rong Xiong , Yunhui Liu , Yue Wang , Yiyi Liao

Training-free conditional generation based on flow matching aims to leverage pre-trained unconditional flow matching models to perform conditional generation without retraining. Recently, a successful training-free conditional generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai , Yan Pan , Kun Yue , Jian yin

Pose guided synthesis aims to generate a new image in an arbitrary target pose while preserving the appearance details from the source image. Existing approaches rely on either hard-coded spatial transformations or 3D body modeling. They…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Haitian Zheng , Lele Chen , Chenliang Xu , Jiebo Luo

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

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