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Optical flow estimation with occlusion or large displacement is a problematic challenge due to the lost of corresponding pixels between consecutive frames. In this paper, we discover that the lost information is related to a large quantity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Yang Jiao , Guangming Shi , Trac D. Tran

Event cameras have recently gained significant traction since they open up new avenues for low-latency and low-power solutions to complex computer vision problems. To unlock these solutions, it is necessary to develop algorithms that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Federico Paredes-Vallés , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

This work presents DCFlow, a novel unsupervised cross-modal flow estimation framework that integrates a decoupled optimization strategy and a cross-modal consistency constraint. Unlike previous approaches that implicitly learn flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Runmin Zhang , Jialiang Wang , Si-Yuan Cao , Zhu Yu , Junchen Yu , Guangyi Zhang , Hui-Liang Shen

Frequent, high-resolution remote sensing imagery is crucial for agricultural and environmental monitoring. Satellites from the Landsat collection offer detailed imagery at 30m resolution but with lower temporal frequency, whereas missions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Bharath Irigireddy , Varaprasad Bandaru

We reframe scene flow as the task of estimating a continuous space-time ODE that describes motion for an entire observation sequence, represented with a neural prior. Our method, EulerFlow, optimizes this neural prior estimate against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kyle Vedder , Neehar Peri , Ishan Khatri , Siyi Li , Eric Eaton , Mehmet Kocamaz , Yue Wang , Zhiding Yu , Deva Ramanan , Joachim Pehserl

Estimating 3D scene flow from a sequence of monocular images has been gaining increased attention due to the simple, economical capture setup. Owing to the severe ill-posedness of the problem, the accuracy of current methods has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Making predictions of future frames is a critical challenge in autonomous driving research. Most of the existing methods for video prediction attempt to generate future frames in simple and fixed scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Henglai Wei , Xiaochuan Yin , Penghong Lin

The performance of optical flow algorithms greatly depends on the specifics of the content and the application for which it is used. Existing and well established optical flow datasets are limited to rather particular contents from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gregory Schröder , Tobias Senst , Erik Bochinski , Thomas Sikora

Optical flow is a regression task where convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to major breakthroughs. However, this comes at major computational demands due to the use of cost-volumes and pyramidal representations. This was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Michael Felsberg

In this paper, we present supervision-by-registration, an unsupervised approach to improve the precision of facial landmark detectors on both images and video. Our key observation is that the detections of the same landmark in adjacent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Xuanyi Dong , Shoou-I Yu , Xinshuo Weng , Shih-En Wei , Yi Yang , Yaser Sheikh

We show that the matching problem that underlies optical flow requires multiple strategies, depending on the amount of image motion and other factors. We then study the implications of this observation on training a deep neural network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Tal Schuster , Lior Wolf , David Gadot

Extracting optical flow from videos remains a core computer vision problem. Motivated by the recent success of large general-purpose models, we ask whether frozen self-supervised video models trained only to predict future frames can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Seungwoo Kim , Khai Loong Aw , Klemen Kotar , Cristobal Eyzaguirre , Wanhee Lee , Yunong Liu , Jared Watrous , Stefan Stojanov , Juan Carlos Niebles , Jiajun Wu , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Self-supervised feed-forward methods for scene flow estimation offer real-time efficiency, but their supervision from two-frame point correspondences is unreliable and often breaks down under occlusions. Multi-frame supervision has the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qingwen Zhang , Chenhan Jiang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yunqi Miao , Yushan Zhang , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

When interacting with highly dynamic environments, scene flow allows autonomous systems to reason about the non-rigid motion of multiple independent objects. This is of particular interest in the field of autonomous driving, in which many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Himangi Mittal , Brian Okorn , David Held

We present SMURF, a method for unsupervised learning of optical flow that improves state of the art on all benchmarks by $36\%$ to $40\%$ (over the prior best method UFlow) and even outperforms several supervised approaches such as PWC-Net…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Austin Stone , Daniel Maurer , Alper Ayvaci , Anelia Angelova , Rico Jonschkowski

Optical flow estimation has made great progress, but usually suffers from degradation under adverse weather. Although semi/full-supervised methods have made good attempts, the domain shift between the synthetic and real adverse weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Hanyu Zhou , Yi Chang , Gang Chen , Luxin Yan

Recent progress in dense optical flow has been driven by increasingly complex architectures and multi-step refinement for test-time scaling. While these approaches achieve strong benchmark performance, they also require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Praroop Chanda , Suryansh Kumar

The multi-step denoising process in diffusion and Flow Matching models causes major efficiency issues, which motivates research on few-step generation. We present Solution Flow Models (SoFlow), a framework for one-step generation from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tianze Luo , Haotian Yuan , Zhuang Liu

Current discriminative depth estimation methods often produce blurry artifacts, while generative approaches suffer from slow sampling due to curvatures in the noise-to-depth transport. Our method addresses these challenges by framing depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ming Gui , Johannes Schusterbauer , Ulrich Prestel , Pingchuan Ma , Dmytro Kotovenko , Olga Grebenkova , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Recent work has shown that optical flow estimation can be formulated as a supervised learning task and can be successfully solved with convolutional networks. Training of the so-called FlowNet was enabled by a large synthetically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Nikolaus Mayer , Eddy Ilg , Philip Häusser , Philipp Fischer , Daniel Cremers , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox