To apply optical flow in practice, it is often necessary to resize the input
to smaller dimensions in order to reduce computational costs. However,
downsizing inputs makes the estimation more challenging because objects and
motion ranges become smaller. Even though recent approaches have demonstrated
high-quality flow estimation, they tend to fail to accurately model small
objects and precise boundaries when the input resolution is lowered,
restricting their applicability to high-resolution inputs. In this paper, we
introduce AnyFlow, a robust network that estimates accurate flow from images of
various resolutions. By representing optical flow as a continuous
coordinate-based representation, AnyFlow generates outputs at arbitrary scales
from low-resolution inputs, demonstrating superior performance over prior works
in capturing tiny objects with detail preservation on a wide range of scenes.
We establish a new state-of-the-art performance of cross-dataset generalization
on the KITTI dataset, while achieving comparable accuracy on the online
benchmarks to other SOTA methods.Comment: CVPR 2023 (Highlight