| MEMFOF: High-Resolution Training for Memory-Efficient Multi-Frame Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 2.94 | | 4.66 | MEMFOF | 2025-06-29 |
| Learning Optical Flow and Scene Flow with Bidirectional Camera-LiDAR Fusion | ✓ Link | 2.96 | | | CamLiRAFT | 2023-03-21 |
| FlowPainter: Inpainting Optical Flow via Confidence-Guided Completion | ✓ Link | 3.02 | | | FlowPainter | 2026-07-11 |
| FreeFlow: A Bias-free Hierarchical Transformer for Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 3.23 | | | FreeFlow-L | 2026-09-10 |
| WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 3.31 | | | WAFT-DAv2-a2 | 2025-06-26 |
| WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 3.42 | | | WAFT-DAv2-a1 | 2025-06-26 |
| WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 3.53 | | | WAFT-Twins-a2 | 2025-06-26 |
| DPFlow: Adaptive Optical Flow Estimation with a Dual-Pyramid Framework | ✓ Link | 3.56 | | 4.93 | DPFlow | 2025-03-19 |
| WAFT: Warping-Alone Field Transforms for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 3.56 | | | WAFT-DINOv3-a2 | 2025-06-26 |
| FlowIt: Global Matching via Hierarchical Transformers and Optimal Transport for Optical Flow | | 3.59 | | 5.09 | FlowIt (XL) | 2026-03-30 |
| CroCo v2: Improved Cross-view Completion Pre-training for Stereo Matching and Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 3.64 | | 5.94 | CroCo-Flow | 2022-11-18 |
| VideoFlow: Exploiting Temporal Cues for Multi-frame Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 3.65 | | | VideoFlow (5 frames) (extra data) | 2023-03-15 |
| Optical Flow Matching: Reframing Optical Flow as Continuous Transport Dynamics | | 3.78 | | | OFM | 2026-06-03 |
| FlowIt: Global Matching via Hierarchical Transformers and Optimal Transport for Optical Flow | | 3.81 | | 5.08 | FlowIt (L) | 2026-03-30 |
| MemFlow: Optical Flow Estimation and Prediction with Memory | ✓ Link | 3.88 | | | MemFlow-T | 2024-04-07 |
| MegaFlow: Zero-Shot Large Displacement Optical Flow | | 3.94 | | | MegaFlow | 2026-03-26 |
| FlowDiffuser: Advancing Optical Flow Estimation with Diffusion Models | ✓ Link | 4.17 | | | FlowDiffuser | 2024-06-17 |
| StreamFlow: Streamlined Multi-Frame Optical Flow Estimation for Video Sequences | ✓ Link | 4.24 | | | StreamFlow (4 frames, KITTI fine-tuned) (extra data) | 2023-11-28 |
| SEA-RAFT: Simple, Efficient, Accurate RAFT for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 4.30 | | | SEA-RAFT(L) (extra data) | 2024-05-23 |
| ProMotion: Prototypes As Motion Learners | | 4.3 | | | ProMotion | 2024-06-07 |
| FlowIt: Global Matching via Hierarchical Transformers and Optimal Transport for Optical Flow | | 4.41 | | 5.43 | FlowIt (M) | 2026-03-30 |
| FlowIt: Global Matching via Hierarchical Transformers and Optimal Transport for Optical Flow | | 4.50 | | 5.45 | FlowIt (S) | 2026-03-30 |
| FlowFormer++: Masked Cost Volume Autoencoding for Pretraining Optical Flow Estimation | | 4.52 | | | FlowFormer++ (tile) (extra data) | 2023-03-02 |
| SplatFlow: Learning Multi-frame Optical Flow via Splatting | ✓ Link | 4.61 | | | SplatFlow-GMA (KITTI fine-tuned, 3-frame) (extra data) | 2023-06-15 |
| Recurrent Partial Kernel Network for Efficient Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 4.64 | | 4.69 | RPKNet | 2024-02-01 |
| FlowFormer: A Transformer Architecture for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 4.68 | | | FlowFormer (KITTI fine-tuned, tiled) (extra data) | 2022-03-30 |
| Global Matching with Overlapping Attention for Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 4.79 | | 6.84 | GMFlowNet | 2022-03-21 |
| SKFlow: Learning Optical Flow with Super Kernels | ✓ Link | 4.84 | | | SKFlow (extra data) | 2022-05-29 |
| RAFT: Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 5.10 | | | RAFT (extra data) | 2020-03-26 |
| Learning to Estimate Hidden Motions with Global Motion Aggregation | ✓ Link | 5.15 | | | GMA (extra data) | 2021-04-06 |
| U$^{2}$Flow: Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 6.00 | | | U2Flow (+FF) | 2026-04-11 |
| MaskFlownet: Asymmetric Feature Matching with Learnable Occlusion Mask | ✓ Link | 6.11 | | | MaskFlownet | 2020-03-24 |
| RAPIDFlow: Recurrent Adaptable Pyramids with Iterative Decoding for Efficient Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 6.12 | | 6.19 | RAPIDFlow | 2024-05-01 |
| U$^{2}$Flow: Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 6.13 | | | U2Flow | 2026-04-11 |
| MaskFlownet: Asymmetric Feature Matching with Learnable Occlusion Mask | ✓ Link | 6.81 | | | MaskFlownet-S | 2020-03-24 |
| LiteFlowNet3: Resolving Correspondence Ambiguity for More Accurate Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 7.22 | | 6.96 | LiteFlowNet3-S | 2020-07-18 |
| LiteFlowNet3: Resolving Correspondence Ambiguity for More Accurate Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 7.34 | | 7.75 | LiteFlowNet3 | 2020-07-18 |
| A Lightweight Optical Flow CNN -- Revisiting Data Fidelity and Regularization | ✓ Link | 7.62 | | | LiteFlowNet2-ft | 2019-03-15 |
| Iterative Residual Refinement for Joint Optical Flow and Occlusion Estimation | ✓ Link | 7.65 | | | IRR-PWC | 2019-04-10 |
| SelFlow: Self-Supervised Learning of Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 8.42 | | | SelFlow | 2019-04-19 |
| GMFlow: Learning Optical Flow via Global Matching | ✓ Link | 9.32 | | | GMFlow (extra data) | 2021-11-26 |
| LiteFlowNet: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 9.38 | | | LiteFlowNet-ft | 2018-05-18 |
| PWC-Net: CNNs for Optical Flow Using Pyramid, Warping, and Cost Volume | ✓ Link | 9.6 | | | PWC-Net-ft (extra data) | 2017-09-07 |
| Cost Function Unrolling in Unsupervised Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 10.81 | | | UnrolledCost | 2020-11-30 |
| FastFlowNet: A Lightweight Network for Fast Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 11.22 | | | FastFlowNet-ft | 2021-03-08 |
| Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Structured Inputs & Outputs | ✓ Link | | 4.98 | | Perceiver IO | 2021-07-30 |
| FlowNet 2.0: Evolution of Optical Flow Estimation with Deep Networks | ✓ Link | 11.48 | | | FlowNet2-ft-kitti (extra data) | 2016-12-06 |