| Optical flow evaluation results |
Statistics:
Average
SD
R2.5
R5.0
R10.0
A50
A75
A95
Error type: angle endpoint interpolation normalized interpolation |
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R2.5 angle error |
avg. |
Army (Hidden texture) GT im0 im1 |
Mequon (Hidden texture) GT im0 im1 |
Schefflera (Hidden texture) GT im0 im1 |
Wooden (Hidden texture) GT im0 im1 |
Grove (Synthetic) GT im0 im1 |
Urban (Synthetic) GT im0 im1 |
Yosemite (Synthetic) GT im0 im1 |
Teddy (Stereo) GT im0 im1 |
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| Classic+Area [31] | 3.4 | 26.6 1 | 50.9 1 | 27.9 3 | 20.1 5 | 46.6 5 | 22.5 4 | 18.6 1 | 46.6 2 | 18.7 5 | 9.32 1 | 36.7 1 | 6.67 2 | 31.9 1 | 41.8 2 | 24.7 1 | 22.1 4 | 52.6 2 | 19.4 2 | 40.9 13 | 49.0 1 | 49.1 21 | 4.95 1 | 12.8 1 | 7.35 2 |
| Adaptive [23] | 6.5 | 27.0 2 | 52.6 2 | 19.8 1 | 21.9 6 | 47.8 7 | 22.6 6 | 20.5 5 | 47.8 7 | 19.7 6 | 10.3 3 | 39.9 3 | 6.31 1 | 45.6 24 | 52.6 23 | 51.3 22 | 17.4 1 | 48.2 1 | 13.9 1 | 34.8 9 | 56.9 9 | 19.8 11 | 6.04 2 | 15.2 2 | 7.54 3 |
| TV-L1-improved [17] | 8.2 | 27.7 3 | 57.9 3 | 20.5 2 | 18.2 3 | 44.9 3 | 19.1 3 | 19.4 3 | 47.7 6 | 17.0 4 | 10.1 2 | 38.5 2 | 6.75 3 | 35.9 4 | 46.0 6 | 27.3 2 | 43.7 24 | 70.2 22 | 47.5 25 | 51.4 21 | 60.5 12 | 50.3 22 | 10.3 6 | 26.8 8 | 10.8 8 |
| Complementary OF [24] | 9.3 | 51.9 16 | 74.9 16 | 59.3 17 | 14.2 1 | 41.6 2 | 13.7 1 | 20.4 4 | 46.6 2 | 19.7 6 | 22.2 15 | 40.8 4 | 21.0 17 | 36.0 5 | 43.4 3 | 38.5 9 | 33.9 13 | 63.8 11 | 31.6 11 | 31.1 7 | 51.9 4 | 36.2 14 | 18.9 15 | 34.4 17 | 29.4 14 |
| Spatially variant [19] | 9.4 | 41.1 7 | 74.5 15 | 43.0 8 | 22.3 7 | 45.9 4 | 25.7 10 | 19.2 2 | 46.7 4 | 16.2 1 | 13.7 6 | 43.2 7 | 8.89 6 | 38.6 11 | 47.1 10 | 40.1 12 | 30.4 9 | 65.2 13 | 32.3 12 | 28.1 4 | 55.4 6 | 18.2 8 | 28.0 21 | 40.0 21 | 38.0 22 |
| Aniso. Huber-L1 [25] | 9.5 | 33.9 4 | 65.1 5 | 32.8 4 | 34.0 17 | 54.0 15 | 40.0 17 | 27.9 17 | 55.0 13 | 38.4 18 | 15.2 11 | 49.9 12 | 12.0 11 | 35.3 3 | 44.6 5 | 28.5 4 | 23.9 5 | 55.9 4 | 20.7 3 | 50.6 19 | 62.1 14 | 39.7 15 | 8.15 5 | 20.7 4 | 8.39 4 |
| Rannacher [27] | 9.9 | 43.1 11 | 71.0 9 | 45.2 11 | 24.1 11 | 49.4 8 | 26.4 12 | 26.0 15 | 56.9 16 | 26.0 13 | 14.2 8 | 42.7 6 | 10.5 8 | 37.1 7 | 47.9 12 | 30.7 6 | 32.3 11 | 65.2 13 | 27.0 9 | 44.0 15 | 56.0 7 | 39.7 15 | 7.83 4 | 21.2 5 | 9.19 6 |
| Brox et al. [5] | 11.1 | 43.7 12 | 74.4 13 | 56.4 16 | 27.0 13 | 52.5 14 | 30.5 14 | 23.4 11 | 54.5 12 | 23.3 10 | 13.4 5 | 50.0 13 | 8.66 5 | 39.8 13 | 46.5 8 | 47.6 18 | 21.6 2 | 59.8 7 | 22.8 5 | 30.9 6 | 59.3 11 | 7.61 3 | 23.1 18 | 37.0 19 | 33.4 18 |
| Second-order prior [8] | 11.5 | 37.6 5 | 70.9 8 | 37.2 7 | 22.4 8 | 51.2 11 | 23.7 8 | 24.5 14 | 59.1 18 | 22.6 8 | 11.2 4 | 41.2 5 | 8.48 4 | 37.9 8 | 49.6 20 | 28.8 5 | 29.0 8 | 68.8 19 | 26.0 8 | 55.5 24 | 64.7 18 | 52.7 24 | 14.7 12 | 34.1 16 | 17.3 13 |
| Occlusion bounds [26] | 11.5 | 42.7 9 | 71.4 10 | 53.1 14 | 29.4 15 | 55.1 17 | 33.2 15 | 24.0 13 | 54.4 11 | 26.0 13 | 14.0 7 | 50.1 14 | 9.34 7 | 40.4 15 | 47.0 9 | 49.0 21 | 22.0 3 | 57.6 6 | 22.6 4 | 29.2 5 | 56.8 8 | 7.51 2 | 24.2 20 | 38.9 20 | 35.6 19 |
| NL-TV-NCC [29] | 11.5 | 46.1 13 | 68.3 6 | 43.4 9 | 25.2 12 | 55.3 18 | 23.5 7 | 21.8 8 | 47.2 5 | 16.9 3 | 16.9 13 | 44.1 9 | 11.9 10 | 38.5 10 | 49.1 18 | 27.3 2 | 36.5 17 | 65.7 15 | 34.9 13 | 46.2 16 | 75.7 28 | 45.7 19 | 12.6 11 | 28.8 10 | 9.10 5 |
| F-TV-L1 [15] | 11.6 | 66.8 23 | 84.2 21 | 77.3 22 | 27.1 14 | 52.0 13 | 29.1 13 | 27.2 16 | 57.3 17 | 24.2 11 | 24.1 16 | 52.0 16 | 19.5 15 | 39.3 12 | 47.7 11 | 39.3 10 | 24.2 6 | 56.5 5 | 24.9 6 | 33.2 8 | 53.7 5 | 20.1 12 | 6.69 3 | 18.6 3 | 5.94 1 |
| CBF [12] | 11.7 | 41.4 8 | 74.0 12 | 48.5 13 | 40.2 18 | 51.5 12 | 51.7 20 | 22.9 10 | 50.8 9 | 28.5 16 | 14.3 9 | 44.7 10 | 11.2 9 | 38.3 9 | 46.1 7 | 36.1 7 | 26.3 7 | 55.1 3 | 24.9 6 | 61.5 25 | 71.0 21 | 52.0 23 | 11.6 8 | 26.7 7 | 14.8 11 |
| DPOF [18] | 11.9 | 48.2 14 | 65.0 4 | 36.4 5 | 23.7 10 | 51.1 10 | 24.4 9 | 23.4 11 | 48.7 8 | 26.1 15 | 27.9 17 | 50.4 15 | 26.2 18 | 36.1 6 | 44.2 4 | 37.5 8 | 33.1 12 | 62.1 9 | 39.5 18 | 54.3 22 | 64.2 16 | 53.0 25 | 12.1 10 | 30.4 11 | 12.5 9 |
| Dynamic MRF [7] | 13.0 | 49.5 15 | 78.0 19 | 55.8 15 | 17.2 2 | 47.4 6 | 16.5 2 | 21.6 7 | 56.3 15 | 16.2 1 | 14.8 10 | 46.4 11 | 12.5 12 | 41.2 16 | 49.0 16 | 45.1 16 | 35.3 15 | 70.7 23 | 38.5 16 | 37.1 11 | 57.7 10 | 55.1 26 | 21.3 16 | 36.7 18 | 31.2 15 |
| Multicue MRF [21] | 13.7 | 59.3 18 | 77.1 18 | 68.2 19 | 22.5 9 | 41.2 1 | 26.0 11 | 22.1 9 | 43.7 1 | 25.7 12 | 33.4 19 | 43.3 8 | 32.3 19 | 35.2 2 | 39.7 1 | 41.6 13 | 40.3 21 | 61.0 8 | 40.0 19 | 66.4 28 | 71.2 22 | 74.5 30 | 18.8 14 | 28.4 9 | 33.0 17 |
| Learning Flow [11] | 14.6 | 42.9 10 | 70.7 7 | 44.8 10 | 30.2 16 | 54.7 16 | 34.7 16 | 28.2 18 | 55.9 14 | 32.3 17 | 17.6 14 | 57.1 18 | 12.6 13 | 44.0 21 | 52.6 23 | 47.8 19 | 30.5 10 | 64.6 12 | 30.3 10 | 46.9 17 | 63.3 15 | 42.8 18 | 14.7 12 | 31.6 12 | 16.3 12 |
| Fusion [6] | 15.8 | 40.5 6 | 75.6 17 | 45.9 12 | 20.0 4 | 50.0 9 | 22.5 4 | 20.8 6 | 52.8 10 | 22.8 9 | 16.2 12 | 52.8 17 | 13.5 14 | 43.1 18 | 49.0 16 | 47.5 17 | 39.6 20 | 67.8 18 | 43.8 23 | 63.9 27 | 75.0 26 | 46.3 20 | 35.5 25 | 42.6 23 | 53.3 27 |
| SegOF [10] | 17.2 | 56.3 17 | 71.9 11 | 37.1 6 | 57.3 24 | 62.9 22 | 68.3 24 | 46.0 22 | 69.0 21 | 57.2 25 | 41.0 21 | 59.5 19 | 37.2 21 | 43.5 19 | 48.3 14 | 56.4 26 | 38.2 18 | 69.6 21 | 39.1 17 | 17.9 1 | 64.5 17 | 3.40 1 | 22.7 17 | 33.0 14 | 32.0 16 |
| Filter Flow [20] | 19.4 | 62.9 19 | 74.4 13 | 60.8 18 | 42.8 19 | 60.1 20 | 49.4 19 | 42.5 20 | 66.0 19 | 51.2 19 | 52.1 25 | 69.5 22 | 50.2 24 | 44.8 23 | 49.7 21 | 54.4 24 | 41.9 23 | 66.7 16 | 43.6 22 | 74.3 30 | 88.9 30 | 42.6 17 | 10.6 7 | 21.6 6 | 12.6 10 |
| SPSA-learn [13] | 20.0 | 65.1 20 | 87.4 25 | 72.7 20 | 45.7 22 | 59.3 19 | 53.4 22 | 45.2 21 | 74.7 22 | 52.2 20 | 41.6 22 | 69.9 23 | 42.5 22 | 42.7 17 | 48.9 15 | 48.7 20 | 38.8 19 | 69.0 20 | 42.5 21 | 39.1 12 | 61.9 13 | 19.3 9 | 36.0 26 | 45.6 25 | 48.3 25 |
| GraphCuts [14] | 20.1 | 66.6 22 | 87.0 24 | 80.0 23 | 43.1 20 | 63.0 23 | 46.1 18 | 41.8 19 | 67.0 20 | 53.4 22 | 28.5 18 | 64.0 21 | 20.8 16 | 40.2 14 | 48.1 13 | 43.5 14 | 46.5 26 | 63.4 10 | 40.5 20 | 62.7 26 | 75.4 27 | 69.5 29 | 23.8 19 | 33.3 15 | 38.5 23 |
| GroupFlow [9] | 20.9 | 66.4 21 | 85.2 23 | 80.8 24 | 61.6 26 | 75.4 28 | 69.0 25 | 51.9 24 | 83.6 25 | 57.0 24 | 33.5 20 | 63.9 20 | 32.5 20 | 49.6 25 | 61.0 27 | 39.9 11 | 51.3 29 | 81.7 26 | 59.4 28 | 22.8 3 | 51.1 3 | 16.5 5 | 28.0 21 | 41.9 22 | 37.9 21 |
| 2D-CLG [1] | 21.1 | 77.2 28 | 82.3 20 | 75.4 21 | 61.5 25 | 65.9 24 | 73.7 26 | 63.2 28 | 89.6 28 | 60.8 28 | 82.8 30 | 88.3 29 | 86.8 30 | 43.5 19 | 49.3 19 | 54.8 25 | 35.1 14 | 67.5 17 | 36.1 14 | 21.3 2 | 50.8 2 | 15.5 4 | 34.4 24 | 46.3 26 | 46.0 24 |
| Black & Anandan [4] | 21.2 | 70.3 25 | 88.0 26 | 84.1 26 | 45.5 21 | 61.4 21 | 52.0 21 | 47.4 23 | 77.3 23 | 52.9 21 | 42.3 23 | 77.5 25 | 42.8 23 | 44.0 21 | 51.8 22 | 45.0 15 | 35.9 16 | 75.9 24 | 38.3 15 | 50.8 20 | 71.3 23 | 17.8 7 | 29.8 23 | 42.7 24 | 37.6 20 |
| Horn & Schunck [3] | 24.6 | 74.1 27 | 93.2 28 | 86.9 27 | 49.1 23 | 73.8 26 | 53.9 23 | 53.1 25 | 89.0 27 | 54.6 23 | 50.9 24 | 81.4 27 | 52.4 25 | 51.3 26 | 58.8 25 | 54.3 23 | 41.2 22 | 82.3 27 | 44.6 24 | 55.0 23 | 74.3 25 | 19.6 10 | 40.7 27 | 56.8 27 | 48.8 26 |
| FOLKI [16] | 26.4 | 72.5 26 | 84.5 22 | 87.5 28 | 62.3 27 | 74.9 27 | 74.0 27 | 56.9 26 | 87.2 26 | 57.7 26 | 59.8 26 | 78.1 26 | 65.4 26 | 53.3 28 | 61.2 28 | 62.7 28 | 50.9 28 | 81.0 25 | 62.7 29 | 47.3 18 | 73.3 24 | 56.8 27 | 49.0 28 | 62.9 29 | 64.3 29 |
| STOB [22] | 26.5 | 67.5 24 | 90.3 27 | 82.1 25 | 72.2 29 | 84.7 31 | 84.8 29 | 58.4 27 | 94.0 30 | 58.1 27 | 78.1 28 | 82.5 28 | 84.6 29 | 55.4 29 | 61.5 29 | 68.1 30 | 49.4 27 | 83.7 29 | 57.7 27 | 36.2 10 | 68.1 20 | 26.2 13 | 50.3 29 | 60.0 28 | 65.2 30 |
| Bipartite [30] | 26.5 | 87.8 30 | 95.4 31 | 88.8 29 | 67.4 28 | 69.2 25 | 75.3 28 | 74.2 31 | 82.3 24 | 81.4 31 | 77.1 27 | 71.8 24 | 77.2 27 | 64.4 30 | 66.6 30 | 62.5 27 | 81.9 31 | 86.7 31 | 87.0 31 | 92.6 31 | 94.8 31 | 78.6 31 | 11.6 8 | 32.4 13 | 9.90 7 |
| TI-DOFE [28] | 27.3 | 90.7 31 | 94.6 30 | 97.1 31 | 76.9 31 | 79.5 30 | 89.4 31 | 73.1 30 | 96.1 31 | 74.4 29 | 84.6 31 | 93.6 31 | 88.3 31 | 52.9 27 | 59.9 26 | 63.9 29 | 44.5 25 | 83.6 28 | 53.5 26 | 42.9 14 | 68.0 19 | 17.0 6 | 50.5 30 | 65.5 30 | 62.4 28 |
| Pyramid LK [2] | 29.7 | 86.7 29 | 94.5 29 | 96.2 30 | 73.1 30 | 76.5 29 | 86.4 30 | 70.8 29 | 89.6 28 | 78.5 30 | 78.1 28 | 88.6 30 | 82.7 28 | 68.8 31 | 76.4 31 | 80.4 31 | 75.7 30 | 85.1 30 | 78.1 30 | 73.1 29 | 79.6 29 | 69.3 28 | 60.8 31 | 74.5 31 | 79.9 31 |
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Army - Ground-truth flow
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| Method | time* | frames | color | Reference and notes | |
| [1] 2D-CLG | 844 | 2 | gray | The 2D-CLG method by Bruhn et al. as implemented by Stefan Roth. [A. Bruhn, J. Weickert, and C. Schnörr. Lucas/Kanade meets Horn/Schunck: combining local and global optic flow methods. IJCV 63(3), 2005.] Parameters were set to match the published performance on Yosemite sequence, which may not be optimal for other sequences. | |
| [2] Pyramid LK | 12 | 2 | color | A modification of Bouguet's pyramidal implementation of Lucas-Kanade. | |
| [3] Horn & Schunck | 49 | 2 | gray | A modern Matlab implementation of the Horn & Schunck method by Deqing Sun. Parameters set to optimize AAE on all training data. | |
| [4] Black & Anandan | 328 | 2 | gray | A modern Matlab implementation of the Black & Anandan method by Deqing Sun. | |
| [5] Brox et al. | 18 | 2 | color | T. Brox, A. Bruhn, N. Papenberg, and J. Weickert. High accuracy optical flow estimation based on a theory for warping. ECCV 2004. (Improved using separate robust functions as proposed in A. Bruhn and J. Weickert, Towards ultimate motion estimation, ICCV 2005; improved by training on the training set.) | |
| [6] Fusion | 2,666 | 2 | color | V. Lempitsky, S. Roth, and C. Rother. Discrete-continuous optimization for optical flow estimation. CVPR 2008. | |
| [7] Dynamic MRF | 366 | 2 | gray | B. Glocker, N. Paragios, N. Komodakis, G. Tziritas, and N. Navab. Optical flow estimation with uncertainties through dynamic MRFs. CVPR 2008. (Method improved since publication.) | |
| [8] Second-order prior | 14 | 2 | gray | W. Trobin, T. Pock, D. Cremers, and H. Bischof. An unbiased second-order prior for high-accuracy motion estimation. DAGM 2008. (Method improved since publication; for details see W. Trobin, Ph.D. thesis, 2009.) | |
| [9] GroupFlow | 600 | 2 | gray | X. Ren. Local Grouping for Optical Flow. CVPR 2008. | |
| [10] SegOF | 60 | 2 | color | L. Xu, J. Chen, and J. Jia. Segmentation based variational model for accurate optical flow estimation. ECCV 2008. | |
| [11] Learning Flow | 825 | 2 | gray | D. Sun, S. Roth, J.P. Lewis, and M. Black. Learning optical flow (SRF-LFC). ECCV 2008. | |
| [12] CBF | 69 | 2 | color | W. Trobin, T. Pock, D. Cremers, and H. Bischof. Continuous energy minimization via repeated binary fusion. ECCV 2008. (Method improved since publication; for details see W. Trobin, Ph.D. thesis, 2009.) | |
| [13] SPSA-learn | 200 | 2 | color | Y. Li and D. Huttenlocher. Learning for optical flow using stochastic optimization. ECCV 2008. | |
| [14] GraphCuts | 1,200 | 2 | color | T. Cooke. Two applications of graph-cuts to image processing. DICTA 2008. | |
| [15] F-TV-L1 | 8 | 2 | gray | A. Wedel, T. Pock, J. Braun, U. Franke, and D. Cremers. Duality TV-L1 flow with fundamental matrix prior. IVCNZ 2008. | |
| [16] FOLKI | 1.4 | 2 | gray | G. Le Besnerais and F. Champagnat. Dense optical flow by iterative local window registration. ICIP 2005. | |
| [17] TV-L1-improved | 2.9 | 2 | gray | A. Wedel, T. Pock, C. Zach, H. Bischof, and D. Cremers. An improved algorithm for TV-L1 optical flow computation. Proceedings of the Dagstuhl Visual Motion Analysis Workshop 2008. Code at GPU4Vision. | |
| [18] DPOF | 261 | 2 | color | C. Lei and Y.-H. Yang. Optical flow estimation on coarse-to-fine region-trees using discrete optimization. ICCV 2009. | |
| [19] Spatially variant | 2,100 | 2 | color | Anonymous. Optical flow estimation with spatially-variant smoothness constraint. ICCV 2009 submission 1860. | |
| [20] Filter Flow | 34,000 | 2 | color | S. Seitz and S. Baker. Filter flow. ICCV 2009. | |
| [21] Multicue MRF | 13,240 | 2 | color | Anonymous. Optical flow estimation using discrete optimization with multi-cue weighted correlation and occlusion handling. ICCV 2009 submission 766. | |
| [22] STOB | 1,080 | 2 | gray | Anonymous. Stochastic uncertainty models for motion estimation. ICCV 2009 submission 1000. | |
| [23] Adaptive | 9.2 | 2 | gray | A. Wedel, D. Cremers, T. Pock, and H. Bischof. Structure- and motion-adaptive regularization for high accuracy optic flow. ICCV 2009. | |
| [24] Complementary OF | 44 | 2 | color | H. Zimmer, A. Bruhn, J. Weickert, L. Valgaerts, A. Salgado, B. Rosenhahn, and H.-P. Seidel. Complementary optic flow. EMMCVPR 2009. | |
| [25] Aniso. Huber-L1 | 2 | 2 | gray | M. Werlberger, W. Trobin, T. Pock, A. Wedel, D. Cremers, and H. Bischof. Anisotropic Huber-L1 optical flow. BMVC 2009. Code at GPU4Vision. | |
| [26] Occlusion bounds | 300 | 3 | color | Anonymous. Occlusion boundaries. NIPS 2009 submission 245. | |
| [27] Rannacher | 0.12 | 2 | gray | J. Rannacher. Realtime 3D motion estimation on graphics hardware. Bachelor thesis, Heidelberg University, 2009. | |
| [28] TI-DOFE | 260 | 2 | gray | C. Cassisa, S. Simoens, and V. Prinet. Two-frame optical flow formulation in an unwarped multiresolution scheme. CIARP 2009. | |
| [29] NL-TV-NCC | 20 | 2 | color | Anonymous. Motion estimation with non-local total variation regularization. CVPR 2010 submission 778. | |
| [30] Bipartite | 120 | 2 | gray | Anonymous. Dynamic bipartite matching. CVPR 2010 submission 69. | |
| [31] Classic+Area | 791 | 2 | gray | Anonymous. Secrets of optical flow estimation and their principles. CVPR 2010 submission 477. |