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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

Recently proposed normalizing flow models such as Glow have been shown to be able to generate high quality, high dimensional images with relatively fast sampling speed. Due to their inherently restrictive architecture, however, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Rogan Morrow , Wei-Chen Chiu

We present TraceFlow, a novel framework for high-fidelity rendering of dynamic specular scenes by addressing two key challenges: precise reflection direction estimation and physically accurate reflection modeling. To achieve this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jiachen Tao , Junyi Wu , Haoxuan Wang , Zongxin Yang , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan

Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) from monocular RGB images is a fundamental yet challenging task due to the inherent ambiguity of inferring occluded 3D geometry from a single view. While feed-forward methods have made progress, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zichen Xi , Hao-Xiang Chen , Nan Xue , Hongyu Yan , Qi-Yuan Feng , Levent Burak Kara , Joaquim Jorge , Qun-Ce Xu

Existing optical flow methods are erroneous in challenging scenes, such as fog, rain, and night because the basic optical flow assumptions such as brightness and gradient constancy are broken. To address this problem, we present an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Haipeng Li , Kunming Luo , Shuaicheng Liu

High-resolution remote sensing images (RSIs) are crucial for Earth observation applications, yet acquiring them is often limited by sensor constraints and costs. In recent years, generative super-resolution (SR) methods, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiangwei Mo , Xi Lu , Hanlin Wu

Generative models based on flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in various domains, yet they suffer from a fundamental limitation: the lack of interpretability in their intermediate generation steps. In fact these models learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Francesco Pivi , Simone Gazza , Davide Evangelista , Roberto Amadini , Maurizio Gabbrielli

Generative models have achieved remarkable progress with the emergence of flow matching (FM). It has demonstrated strong generative capabilities and attracted significant attention as a simulation-free flow-based framework capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Hoang Anh Nguyen Kim , Toan Nguyen Hai , Long Tran Quoc

Femtolensing is a gravitational lensing effect in which the magnification is a function not only of the positions and sizes of the source and lens, but also of the wavelength of light. Femtolensing is the only known effect of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Ulmer , J. Goodman

Gravitational lensing provides a strict test of cosmogonic models. Detailed numerical propagation of light rays through a universe having a distribution of inhomogeneities derived from the standard CDM (cold dark matter) scenario with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Joachim Wambsganss , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Edwin L. Turner

We assess the feasibility of probing dark energy with strong gravitational lensing systems. The capability of the method, which depends on the accuracy with which the lensing systems are modeled, is quantitatively investigated using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Yasufum Kadoya , Tsukasa Murata , Toshifumi Futamase

Flow Matching has recently gained attention in generative modeling as a simple and flexible alternative to diffusion models. While existing statistical guarantees adapt tools from the analysis of diffusion models, we take a different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Lea Kunkel , Mathias Trabs

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time novel view synthesis with high visual quality. However, existing methods struggle with semi-transparent specular surfaces that exhibit both complex reflections and clear transmission, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ji Shi , Xianghua Ying , Bowei Xing , Ruohao Guo , Wenzhen Yue

Strong Lensing is a powerful probe of the matter distribution in galaxies and clusters and a relevant tool for cosmography. Analyses of strong gravitational lenses with Deep Learning have become a popular approach due to these astronomical…

Flow based generative models have charted an impressive path across multiple visual generation tasks by adhering to a simple principle: learning velocity representations of a linear interpolant. However, we observe that training velocity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Inkyu Shin , Chenglin Yang , Liang-Chieh Chen

The simulation of high-energy physics collision events is a key element for data analysis at present and future particle accelerators. The comparison of simulation predictions to data allows looking for rare deviations that can be due to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-16 Francesco Vaselli , Filippo Cattafesta , Patrick Asenov , Andrea Rizzi

Gravitational lensing occurs as the path of light from distant celestial bodies is distorted due to gravitational attraction by other celestial bodies, whose mass is partly invisible, being so-called dark matter. When observed through a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Hans Georg Schaathun , Ben David Normann , Kenny Solevåg-Hoti

Doppler lensing, a relativistic effect resulting from the peculiar velocities of galaxies along the line of sight, provides insight into the large-scale structure of the Universe. Relativistic simulations are essential for modeling Doppler…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Mubtasim Fuad , Sonia Akter Ema , Md Rasel Hossen