arXiv AI By Yi Xiao, Carlos Rodriguez Coronel, Jing Zhan, Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie, Alex Wong, Dong Lao

Triangular Consistency as a Universal Constraint for Learning Optical Flow

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arXiv:2606. 19938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose triangular consistency as a first-principled constraint for optical flow, which is agnostic to network architecture, supervision type, and dataset, and applies to both image-pair and multi-frame settings.

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