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LiDAR scene generation is increasingly important for scalable simulation and synthetic data creation, especially under diverse sensing conditions that are costly to capture at scale. Typically, diffusion-based LiDAR generators are developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Youquan Liu , Weidong Yang , Ao Liang , Xiang Xu , Lingdong Kong , Yang Wu , Dekai Zhu , Xin Li , Runnan Chen , Ben Fei , Tongliang Liu , Wanli Ouyang

Localization has been a challenging task for autonomous navigation. A loop detection algorithm must overcome environmental changes for the place recognition and re-localization of robots. Therefore, deep learning has been extensively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Alex Junho Lee , Seungwon Song , Hyungtae Lim , Woojoo Lee , Hyun Myung

Depth completion aims to recover dense depth maps from sparse depth measurements. It is of increasing importance for autonomous driving and draws increasing attention from the vision community. Most of existing methods directly train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Yan Xu , Xinge Zhu , Jianping Shi , Guofeng Zhang , Hujun Bao , Hongsheng Li

Diffusion- and flow-based models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative modeling approaches, but they require many sampling steps. Consistency models can distill these models into efficient one-step generators; however, unlike flow-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Amirmojtaba Sabour , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Reconstructing and tracking dynamic 3D scenes remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing approaches often decouple geometry from motion: multi-view reconstruction methods assume static scenes, while dynamic tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shenhan Qian , Ganlin Zhang , Shangzhe Wu , Daniel Cremers

Reliable 3D dynamic perception requires models that can anticipate motion beyond predefined categories, yet progress is hindered by the scarcity of dense, high-quality motion annotations. While self-supervision on unlabeled real data offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Chenhan Jiang , Patric Jensfelt

We present FlowDet, the first formulation of object detection using modern Conditional Flow Matching techniques. This work follows from DiffusionDet, which originally framed detection as a generative denoising problem in the bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Enis Baty , C. P. Bridges , Simon Hadfield

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is a crucial component in various applications, including localization and mapping in robotics, object tracking, and activity recognition in computer vision. While recent learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiyong Zhang , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

Diffusion and flow-based models have become the state of the art for generative AI across a wide range of data modalities, including images, videos, shapes, molecules, music, and more. This tutorial provides a self-contained introduction to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Peter Holderrieth , Ezra Erives

The integration of data from diverse sensor modalities (e.g., camera and LiDAR) constitutes a prevalent methodology within the ambit of autonomous driving scenarios. Recent advancements in efficient point cloud transformers have underscored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yutao Zhu , Xiaosong Jia , Xinyu Yang , Junchi Yan

Flow Matching (FM) is a simulation-free method for learning a continuous and invertible flow to interpolate between two distributions, and in particular to generate data from noise. Inspired by the variational nature of the diffusion…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Chen Xu , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

Diffusion Bridge and Flow Matching have both demonstrated compelling empirical performance in transformation between arbitrary distributions. However, there remains confusion about which approach is generally preferable, and the substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kaizhen Zhu , Mokai Pan , Zhechuan Yu , Jingya Wang , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi

3D motion estimation including scene flow and point cloud registration has drawn increasing interest. Inspired by 2D flow estimation, recent methods employ deep neural networks to construct the cost volume for estimating accurate 3D flow.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xiaodong Gu , Chengzhou Tang , Weihao Yuan , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have established a new state-of-the-art in generative image synthesis, yet their deployment is hindered by significant computational overhead during inference, often requiring up to 1,000…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Srishti Gupta , Yashasvee Taiwade

Estimating dense 2D optical flow and 3D scene flow is essential for dynamic scene understanding. Recent work combines images, LiDAR, and event data to jointly predict 2D and 3D motion, yet most approaches operate in separate heterogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ruishan Guo , Ciyu Ruan , Haoyang Wang , Zihang Gong , Jingao Xu , Xinlei Chen

LiDAR sensors are often considered essential for autonomous driving, but high-resolution sensors remain expensive while affordable low-resolution sensors produce sparse point clouds that miss critical details. LiDAR super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 June Moh Goo , Zichao Zeng , Jan Boehm

3D Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is an important part of the unmanned vehicle perception module. Most methods optimize object detection and data association independently. These methods make the network structure complicated and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yueling Shen , Guangming Wang , Hesheng Wang

LiDAR point clouds contain measurements of complicated natural scenes and can be used to update digital elevation models, glacial monitoring, detecting faults and measuring uplift detecting, forest inventory, detect shoreline and beach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 F. Patricia Medina , Randy Paffenroth

An efficient 3D scene flow estimation method called PointFlowHop is proposed in this work. PointFlowHop takes two consecutive point clouds and determines the 3D flow vectors for every point in the first point cloud. PointFlowHop decomposes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Pranav Kadam , Jiahao Gu , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo