Optical Flow Algorithm Resources

A curated list of resources dedicated to optical flow algorithms. Any suggestions and pull requests are welcome.

Papers & Code

[1981-IJCAI, Lucas-Kanade method] An iterative image registration technique with an application to stereo vision paper
[1981-AI, Horn-Schunck method] Determining optical flow paper
[2003-SCIA, Farneback flow] Two-frame Motion Estimation Based on Polynomial Expansion paper code
[2004-ECCV, Brox method] High Accuracy Optical Flow Estimation Based on a Theory for Warping paper code
[2005-IJCV] Lucas/Kanade meets Horn/Schunck: Combining local and global optic flow methods paper
[2007-DAGM, TVL1 method] A duality based approach for realtime tv-l1 optical flow paper code
[2011-TPAMI, LDOF flow] Large displacement optical flow: descriptor matching in variational motion estimation paper code
[2013-ICCV, deep flow] DeepFlow: Large Displacement Optical Flow with Deep Matching paper homepage code
[2016-ECCV, DIS flow] Fast Optical Flow using Dense Inverse Search paper code

[2015-ICCV, FlowNet1] FlowNet: Learning Optical Flow with Convolutional Networks paper new code old code
[2017-CVPR, FlowNet2] FlowNet 2.0: Evolution of Optical Flow Estimation with Deep Networks paper code homepage
[2020-ECCV, best paper, RAFT] RAFT: Recurrent All Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow paper code

[2010-ECCV] Dense point trajectories by GPU-accelerated large displacement optical flow paper code

[Li Routeng's toolbox] Python-based optical flow toolkit for existing popular dataset code

Middlebury 2009 paper
- 8 image pairs for training, with ground truth flows generated using four different techniques
- Displacements are very small, typi- cally below 10 pixels.
KITTI 2012 paper
- 194 training image pairs, large displacements, contains only a very special motion type
- The ground truth is obtained from real world scenes by simultaneously recording the scenes with a camera and a 3D laser scanner.
- Task: stereo, flow, sceneflow, depth, odometry, object, road, tracking, semantics, etc.
MPI Sintel 2012 paper
- 1041 training image pairs, ground truth from rendered artificial scenes with special attention to realistic image properties
- Very long sequences, large motions, specular reflections, motion blur, defocus blur, atmospheric effects
- Task: optical flow.
Flying Chairs (Vision group, Uni-Freiburg) 2015 paper
- 22872 image pairs, a synthetic dataset with optical flow ground truth
- Task: optical flow.
ChairsSDHom (Vision group, Uni-Freiburg) 2017 paper
- Task: optical flow
- Designed to be robust to untextured regions and to produce flow magnitude histograms close to those of the UCF101 dataset (small displacement, less than 1 pixel).