2022/08/03 by Shuzhi Yu, Yu, Shuzhi, Hannah Halin Kim +5
Computer Science · #Advanced Image Processing Techniques #Advanced Vision and Imaging #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Image Enhancement Techniques
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.02305
openalex publication_date 2022/08/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Unsupervised optical flow estimators based on deep learning have attracted increasing attention due to the cost and difficulty of annotating for ground truth. Although performance measured by average End-Point Error (EPE) has improved over the years, flow estimates are still poorer along motion boundaries (MBs), where the flow is not smooth, as is typically assumed, and where features computed by neural networks are contaminated by multiple motions. To improve flow in the unsupervised settings, we design a framework that detects MBs by analyzing visual changes along boundary candidates and replaces motions close to detections with motions farther away. Our proposed algorithm detects boundaries more accurately than a baseline method with the same inputs and can improve estimates from any flow predictor without additional training.