Zhuoyan Li

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A Lightweight Network to Learn Optical Flow from Event Data

Zhuoyan Li, Jiawei Shen

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Auto-TLDR; A lightweight pyramid network with attention mechanism to learn optical flow from events data

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Existing deep neural networks have found success in estimation of event-based optical flow, but are at the expense of complicated architectures. Moreover, few prior works discuss how to tackle with the noise problem of event camera, which would severely contaminate the data quality and make estimation an ill-posed problem. In this work, we present a lightweight pyramid network with attention mechanism to learn optical flow from events data. Specially, the network is designed according to two-well established principles: Laplacian pyramidal decomposition and channel attention mechanism. By integrating Laplacian pyramidal processing into CNN, the learning problem is simplified into several subproblems at each pyramid level, which can be handled by a relatively shallow network with few parameters. The channel attention block, embedded in each pyramid level, treats channels of feature map unequally and provides extra flexibility in suppressing background noises. The size of the proposed network is about only 5% of previous methods while our method still achieves state-of-the-art performance on the benchmark dataset. The experimental video samples of continuous flow estimation is presented at :https://github.com/xfleezy/blob.