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Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, yet the reliance on expensive ground-truth annotations limits the scalability of supervised approaches. Although unsupervised and semi-supervised methods alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yixuan Luo , Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Yanjing Li , Nathan Jacobs

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

Optical flow is a fundamental technique for motion estimation, widely applied in video stabilization, interpolation, and object tracking. Traditional optical flow estimation methods rely on restrictive assumptions like brightness constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu-Hsi Chen , Chin-Tien Wu

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

Robust velocity and position estimation is crucial for autonomous robot navigation. The optical flow based methods for autonomous navigation have been receiving increasing attentions in tandem with the development of micro unmanned aerial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Chen Wang , Tete Ji , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Object tracking is a hot topic in computer vision. Thanks to the booming of the very high resolution (VHR) remote sensing techniques, it is now possible to track targets of interests in satellite videos. However, since the targets in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Bo Du , Shihan Cai , Chen Wu , Liangpei Zhang , Dacheng Tao

In most of computer vision applications, motion blur is regarded as an undesirable artifact. However, it has been shown that motion blur in an image may have practical interests in fundamental computer vision problems. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Junsik Kim , Francois Rameau , Jae Won Cho , In So Kweon

A new era of space exploration and exploitation is fast approaching. A multitude of spacecraft will flow in the future decades under the propulsive momentum of the new space economy. Yet, the flourishing proliferation of deep-space assets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Eleonora Andreis , Paolo Panicucci , Francesco Topputo

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

This paper presents a high speed implementation of an optical flow algorithm which computes planar velocity fields in an experimental flow. Real-time computation of the flow velocity field allows the experimentalist to have instantaneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-09-26 N. Gautier , J-L. Aider

Nano quadcopters are small, agile, and cheap platforms that are well suited for deployment in narrow, cluttered environments. Due to their limited payload, these vehicles are highly constrained in processing power, rendering conventional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Rik J. Bouwmeester , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

High-resolution multi-modality information acquired by vision-based tactile sensors can support more dexterous manipulations for robot fingers. Optical flow is low-level information directly obtained by vision-based tactile sensors, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Zhiyuan Zhang , Hua Yang , Zhouping Yin

Optical Flow (OF) and depth are commonly used for visual odometry since they provide sufficient information about camera ego-motion in a rigid scene. We reformulate the problem of ego-motion estimation as a problem of motion estimation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Igor Slinko , Anna Vorontsova , Filipp Konokhov , Olga Barinova , Anton Konushin

Optical flow estimation is a widely known problem in computer vision introduced by Gibson, J.J(1950) to describe the visual perception of human by stimulus objects. Estimation of optical flow model can be achieved by solving for the motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Noranart Vesdapunt , Utkarsh Sinha

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

Optical flow is an indispensable building block for various important computer vision tasks, including motion estimation, object tracking, and disparity measurement. In this work, we propose TransFlow, a pure transformer architecture for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yawen Lu , Qifan Wang , Siqi Ma , Tong Geng , Yingjie Victor Chen , Huaijin Chen , Dongfang Liu

An event-based camera outputs an event whenever a change in scene brightness of a preset magnitude is detected at a particular pixel location in the sensor plane. The resulting sparse and asynchronous output coupled with the high dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Loïc J. Azzalini , Emmanuel Blazquez , Alexander Hadjiivanov , Gabriele Meoni , Dario Izzo

Terrain relative navigation can improve the precision of a spacecraft's position estimate by detecting global features that act as supplementary measurements to correct for drift in the inertial navigation system. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Lena M. Downes , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

Motion detection is a fundamental but challenging task for autonomous driving. In particular scenes like highway, remote objects have to be paid extra attention for better controlling decision. Aiming at distant vehicles, we train a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Ka Man Lo

FlowNet2, the state-of-the-art convolutional neural network (CNN) for optical flow estimation, requires over 160M parameters to achieve accurate flow estimation. In this paper we present an alternative network that outperforms FlowNet2 on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Tak-Wai Hui , Xiaoou Tang , Chen Change Loy