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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…

Understanding 3D scenes is a critical prerequisite for autonomous agents. Recently, LiDAR and other sensors have made large amounts of data available in the form of temporal sequences of point cloud frames. In this work, we propose a novel…

Autonomous vehicles operate in highly dynamic environments necessitating an accurate assessment of which aspects of a scene are moving and where they are moving to. A popular approach to 3D motion estimation, termed scene flow, is to employ…

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.…

Scene flow estimation is the task to predict the point-wise or pixel-wise 3D displacement vector between two consecutive frames of point clouds or images, which has important application in fields such as service robots and autonomous…

We propose a novel scene flow estimation approach to capture and infer 3D motions from point clouds. Estimating 3D motions for point clouds is challenging, since a point cloud is unordered and its density is significantly non-uniform. Such…

Considering that scene flow estimation has the capability of the spatial domain to focus but lacks the coherence of the temporal domain, this study proposes long-term scene flow estimation (LSFE), a comprehensive task that can…

3D scene flow estimation from point clouds is a low-level 3D motion perception task in computer vision. Flow embedding is a commonly used technique in scene flow estimation, and it encodes the point motion between two consecutive frames.…

Scene flow depicts the dynamics of a 3D scene, which is critical for various applications such as autonomous driving, robot navigation, AR/VR, etc. Conventionally, scene flow is estimated from dense/regular RGB video frames. With the…

Occluded and long-range objects are ubiquitous and challenging for 3D object detection. Point cloud sequence data provide unique opportunities to improve such cases, as an occluded or distant object can be observed from different viewpoints…

3D scene flow characterizes how the points at the current time flow to the next time in the 3D Euclidean space, which possesses the capacity to infer autonomously the non-rigid motion of all objects in the scene. The previous methods for…

In this paper, we deal with the problem to predict the future 3D motions of 3D object scans from previous two consecutive frames. Previous methods mostly focus on sparse motion prediction in the form of skeletons. While in this paper we…

Despite significant progress in image-based 3D scene flow estimation, the performance of such approaches has not yet reached the fidelity required by many applications. Simultaneously, these applications are often not restricted to…

Scene flow estimation is the task of describing 3D motion between temporally successive observations. This thesis aims to build the foundation for building scene flow estimators with two important properties: they are scalable, i.e. they…

3D single object tracking with point clouds is a critical task in 3D computer vision. Previous methods usually input the last two frames and use the predicted box to get the template point cloud in previous frame and the search area point…

3D scene flow estimation is a vital tool in perceiving our environment given depth or range sensors. Unlike optical flow, the data is usually sparse and in most cases partially occluded in between two temporal samplings. Here we propose a…

3D scene flow estimation aims to estimate point-wise motions between two consecutive frames of point clouds. Superpoints, i.e., points with similar geometric features, are usually employed to capture similar motions of local regions in 3D…

We propose a novel end-to-end deep scene flow model, called PointPWC-Net, on 3D point clouds in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Flow computed at the coarse level is upsampled and warped to a finer level, enabling the algorithm to accommodate for…

Point cloud has been widely used in the field of autonomous driving since it can provide a more comprehensive three-dimensional representation of the environment than 2D images. Point-wise prediction based on point cloud sequence (PCS) is…

Scene flow represents the motion information of each point in the 3D point clouds. It is a vital downstream method applied to many tasks, such as motion segmentation and object tracking. However, there are always occlusion points between…