Unsupervised Learning Optical Flow in Multi-frame Dynamic Environment Using Temporal Dynamic Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07159v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 14:32:02 GMT
• Title: Unsupervised Learning Optical Flow in Multi-frame Dynamic Environment Using Temporal Dynamic Modeling
• Authors: Zitang Sun, Shin'ya Nishida, and Zhengbo Luo
• Abstract summary: In this paper, we explore the optical flow estimation from multiple-frame sequences of dynamic scenes. We use motion priors of the adjacent frames to provide more reliable supervision of the occluded regions. Experiments on KITTI 2012, KITTI 2015, Sintel Clean, and Sintel Final datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods.
• Score: 7.111443975103329
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: For visual estimation of optical flow, a crucial function for many vision tasks, unsupervised learning, using the supervision of view synthesis has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods, since ground-truth flow is not readily available in many cases. However, unsupervised learning is likely to be unstable when pixel tracking is lost due to occlusion and motion blur, or the pixel matching is impaired due to variation in image content and spatial structure over time. In natural environments, dynamic occlusion or object variation is a relatively slow temporal process spanning several frames. We, therefore, explore the optical flow estimation from multiple-frame sequences of dynamic scenes, whereas most of the existing unsupervised approaches are based on temporal static models. We handle the unsupervised optical flow estimation with a temporal dynamic model by introducing a spatial-temporal dual recurrent block based on the predictive coding structure, which feeds the previous high-level motion prior to the current optical flow estimator. Assuming temporal smoothness of optical flow, we use motion priors of the adjacent frames to provide more reliable supervision of the occluded regions. To grasp the essence of challenging scenes, we simulate various scenarios across long sequences, including dynamic occlusion, content variation, and spatial variation, and adopt self-supervised distillation to make the model understand the object's motion patterns in a prolonged dynamic environment. Experiments on KITTI 2012, KITTI 2015, Sintel Clean, and Sintel Final datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods on unsupervised optical flow estimation. The proposal achieves state-of-the-art performance with advantages in memory overhead.

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