UPFlow: Upsampling Pyramid for Unsupervised Optical Flow Learning

We present an unsupervised learning approach for optical flow estimation by improving the upsampling and learning of pyramid network. We design a self-guided upsample module to tackle the interpolation blur problem caused by bilinear upsampling between pyramid levels. Moreover, we propose a pyramid distillation loss to add supervision for intermediate levels via distilling the finest flow as pseudo labels. By integrating these two components together, our method achieves the best performance for unsupervised optical flow learning on multiple leading benchmarks, including MPI-SIntel, KITTI 2012 and KITTI 2015. In particular, we achieve EPE=1.4 on KITTI 2012 and F1=9.38% on KITTI 2015, which outperform the previous state-of-the-art methods by 22.2% and 15.7%, respectively.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Optical Flow Estimation KITTI 2012 unsupervised UpFlow Average End-Point Error 1.4 # 1
Optical Flow Estimation KITTI 2015 unsupervised UpFlow Fl-all 9.38 # 2
Optical Flow Estimation Sintel Clean unsupervised UpFlow Average End-Point Error 4.68 # 3
Optical Flow Estimation Sintel Final unsupervised UpFlow Average End-Point Error 5.32 # 1

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