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Scene flow estimation has been receiving increasing attention for 3D environment perception. Monocular scene flow estimation -- obtaining 3D structure and 3D motion from two temporally consecutive images -- is a highly ill-posed problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Event cameras capture the motion of intensity gradients (edges) in the image plane in the form of rapid asynchronous events. When accumulated in 2D histograms, these events depict overlays of the edges in motion, consequently obscuring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Pritam P. Karmokar , Quan H. Nguyen , William J. Beksi

Event camera has offered promising alternative for visual perception, especially in high speed and high dynamic range scenes. Recently, many deep learning methods have shown great success in providing promising solutions to many event-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Ziluo Ding , Rui Zhao , Jiyuan Zhang , Tianxiao Gao , Ruiqin Xiong , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Imposing consistency through proxy tasks has been shown to enhance data-driven learning and enable self-supervision in various tasks. This paper introduces novel and effective consistency strategies for optical flow estimation, a problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jisoo Jeong , Jamie Menjay Lin , Fatih Porikli , Nojun Kwak

Event-based motion field estimation is an important task. However, current optical flow methods face challenges: learning-based approaches, often frame-based and relying on CNNs, lack cross-domain transferability, while model-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dehao Yuan , Levi Burner , Jiayi Wu , Minghui Liu , Jingxi Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermüller

Recent learning-based methods for event-based optical flow estimation utilize cost volumes for pixel matching but suffer from redundant computations and limited scalability to higher resolutions for flow refinement. In this work, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daikun Liu , Lei Cheng , Teng Wang , changyin Sun

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that perform well in HDR conditions and have high temporal resolution. However, different from traditional frame-based cameras, event cameras measure asynchronous pixel-level brightness changes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xin Peng , Yifu Wang , Ling Gao , Laurent Kneip

Event cameras capture changes of illumination in the observed scene rather than accumulating light to create images. Thus, they allow for applications under high-speed motion and complex lighting conditions, where traditional framebased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Temporal coherence is a valuable source of information in the context of optical flow estimation. However, finding a suitable motion model to leverage this information is a non-trivial task. In this paper we propose an unsupervised online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Daniel Maurer , Andrés Bruhn

Event cameras deliver visual information characterized by a high dynamic range and high temporal resolution, offering significant advantages in estimating optical flow for complex lighting conditions and fast-moving objects. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gangwei Xu , Haotong Lin , Zhaoxing Zhang , Hongcheng Luo , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yang

Event cameras respond to changes in log-brightness at the millisecond level, making them ideal for optical flow estimation. However, existing datasets from event cameras provide only low frame rate ground truth for optical flow, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yaozu Ye , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Ze Wang , Xiaoting Yin , Lei Sun , Yaonan Wang , Kaiwei Wang

We present a method for estimating dense continuous-time optical flow from event data. Traditional dense optical flow methods compute the pixel displacement between two images. Due to missing information, these approaches cannot recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mathias Gehrig , Manasi Muglikar , Davide Scaramuzza

Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

Event-based cameras are raising interest within the computer vision community. These sensors operate with asynchronous pixels, emitting events, or "spikes", when the luminance change at a given pixel since the last event surpasses a certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Javier Cuadrado , Ulysse Rançon , Benoît Cottereau , Francisco Barranco , Timothée Masquelier

Optical flow estimation remains challenging due to untextured areas, motion boundaries, occlusions, and more. Thus, the estimated flow is not equally reliable across the image. To that end, post-hoc confidence measures have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Anne S. Wannenwetsch , Margret Keuper , Stefan Roth

Real-time motion detection in non-stationary scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. These challenges degrade the performance of the existing methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Zheng Zhu , Jiagang Zhu

The event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor. When the brightness change exceeds the preset threshold, the sensor generates events asynchronously. The number of valid events directly affects the performance of event-based tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xijie Xiang , Lin Zhu , Jianing Li , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Key-point-based scene understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving applications. At the same time, optical flow plays an important role in many vision tasks. However, due to the implicit bias of equal attention on all points, classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhonghua Yi , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Qi Jiang , Yaozu Ye , Ze Wang , Huajian Ni , Kaiwei Wang

Recent weakly supervised video anomaly detection methods have achieved significant advances by employing unified frameworks for joint optimization. However, this paradigm is limited by a fundamental sensitivity-stability trade-off, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Hantao Zheng , Ning Han , Yawen Zeng , Hao Chen

Scene flow prediction is a crucial underlying task in understanding dynamic scenes as it offers fundamental motion information. However, contemporary scene flow methods encounter three major challenges. Firstly, flow estimation solely based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Zhiyang Lu , Qinghan Chen , Ming Cheng