Injecting Frame-Event Complementary Fusion into Diffusion for Optical Flow in Challenging Scenes

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Haonan, Zhou, Hanyu, Liu, Haoyue, Yan, Luxin
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author Wang, Haonan
Zhou, Hanyu
Liu, Haoyue
Yan, Luxin
author_facet Wang, Haonan
Zhou, Hanyu
Liu, Haoyue
Yan, Luxin
contents Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture and amplified noise and deteriorate the appearance saturation and boundary completeness of frame cameras, which are necessary for motion feature matching. In degraded scenes, the frame camera provides dense appearance saturation but sparse boundary completeness due to its long imaging time and low dynamic range. In contrast, the event camera offers sparse appearance saturation, while its short imaging time and high dynamic range gives rise to dense boundary completeness. Traditionally, existing methods utilize feature fusion or domain adaptation to introduce event to improve boundary completeness. However, the appearance features are still deteriorated, which severely affects the mostly adopted discriminative models that learn the mapping from visual features to motion fields and generative models that generate motion fields based on given visual features. So we introduce diffusion models that learn the mapping from noising flow to clear flow, which is not affected by the deteriorated visual features. Therefore, we propose a novel optical flow estimation framework Diff-ABFlow based on diffusion models with frame-event appearance-boundary fusion.
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spellingShingle Injecting Frame-Event Complementary Fusion into Diffusion for Optical Flow in Challenging Scenes
Wang, Haonan
Zhou, Hanyu
Liu, Haoyue
Yan, Luxin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture and amplified noise and deteriorate the appearance saturation and boundary completeness of frame cameras, which are necessary for motion feature matching. In degraded scenes, the frame camera provides dense appearance saturation but sparse boundary completeness due to its long imaging time and low dynamic range. In contrast, the event camera offers sparse appearance saturation, while its short imaging time and high dynamic range gives rise to dense boundary completeness. Traditionally, existing methods utilize feature fusion or domain adaptation to introduce event to improve boundary completeness. However, the appearance features are still deteriorated, which severely affects the mostly adopted discriminative models that learn the mapping from visual features to motion fields and generative models that generate motion fields based on given visual features. So we introduce diffusion models that learn the mapping from noising flow to clear flow, which is not affected by the deteriorated visual features. Therefore, we propose a novel optical flow estimation framework Diff-ABFlow based on diffusion models with frame-event appearance-boundary fusion.
title Injecting Frame-Event Complementary Fusion into Diffusion for Optical Flow in Challenging Scenes
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10577