| FreeFlow: A Bias-free Hierarchical Transformer for Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 1.48 | FreeFlow-L | 2026-09-10 |
| VideoFlow: Exploiting Temporal Cues for Multi-frame Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 1.649 | VideoFlow (5 frames) (extra data) | 2023-03-15 |
| FlowPainter: Inpainting Optical Flow via Confidence-Guided Completion | ✓ Link | 1.71 | FlowPainter | 2026-07-11 |
| MemFlow: Optical Flow Estimation and Prediction with Memory | ✓ Link | 1.84 | MemFlow-T | 2024-04-07 |
| Optical Flow Matching: Reframing Optical Flow as Continuous Transport Dynamics | | 1.85 | OFM | 2026-06-03 |
| StreamFlow: Streamlined Multi-Frame Optical Flow Estimation for Video Sequences | ✓ Link | 1.874 | StreamFlow (4 frames, Sintel fine-tuned) (extra data) | 2023-11-28 |
| MEMFOF: High-Resolution Training for Memory-Efficient Multi-Frame Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 1.907 | MEMFOF-L | 2025-06-29 |
| FlowFormer++: Masked Cost Volume Autoencoding for Pretraining Optical Flow Estimation | | 1.94 | FlowFormer++ (extra data) | 2023-03-02 |
| DPFlow: Adaptive Optical Flow Estimation with a Dual-Pyramid Framework | ✓ Link | 1.975 | DPFlow | 2025-03-19 |
| ProMotion: Prototypes As Motion Learners | | 2.01 | ProMotion | 2024-06-07 |
| FlowDiffuser: Advancing Optical Flow Estimation with Diffusion Models | ✓ Link | 2.03 | FlowDiffuser | 2024-06-17 |
| SplatFlow: Learning Multi-frame Optical Flow via Splatting | ✓ Link | 2.072 | SplatFlow-GMA (Sintel fine-tuned, 3-frame, no WarmStart) (extra data) | 2023-06-15 |
| FlowFormer: A Transformer Architecture for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 2.088 | FlowFormer (Sintel fine-tuned, no warm-start) (extra data) | 2022-03-30 |
| SKFlow: Learning Optical Flow with Super Kernels | ✓ Link | 2.27 | SKFlow (extra data) | 2022-05-29 |
| Unifying Flow, Stereo and Depth Estimation | ✓ Link | 2.37 | GMFlow | 2022-11-10 |
| Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Structured Inputs & Outputs | ✓ Link | 2.42 | Perceiver IO | 2021-07-30 |
| MegaFlow: Zero-Shot Large Displacement Optical Flow | | 2.43 | MegaFlow | 2026-03-26 |
| CroCo v2: Improved Cross-view Completion Pre-training for Stereo Matching and Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 2.436 | CroCo-Flow | 2022-11-18 |
| Learning to Estimate Hidden Motions with Global Motion Aggregation | ✓ Link | 2.470 | GMA | 2021-04-06 |
| Rethinking RAFT for Efficient Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 2.60 | Ef-RAFT | 2024-01-01 |
| SEA-RAFT: Simple, Efficient, Accurate RAFT for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 2.601 | SEA-RAFT(L) (extra data) | 2024-05-23 |
| Global Matching with Overlapping Attention for Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 2.648 | GMFlowNet | 2022-03-21 |
| Recurrent Partial Kernel Network for Efficient Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 2.657 | RPKNet | 2024-02-01 |
| RAFT: Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 2.855 | RAFT (warm-start) | 2020-03-26 |
| Deep Equilibrium Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 2.886 | DEQ-Flow-H | 2022-04-18 |
| GMFlow: Learning Optical Flow via Global Matching | ✓ Link | 2.9 | GMFlow (extra data) | 2021-11-26 |
| RAPIDFlow: Recurrent Adaptable Pyramids with Iterative Decoding for Efficient Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 3.56 | RAPIDFlow | 2024-05-01 |
| ScopeFlow: Dynamic Scene Scoping for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 4.098 | ScopeFlow | 2020-02-25 |
| MaskFlownet: Asymmetric Feature Matching with Learnable Occlusion Mask | ✓ Link | 4.17 | MaskFlownet | 2020-03-24 |
| SelFlow: Self-Supervised Learning of Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 4.26 | SelFlow | 2019-04-19 |
| MaskFlownet: Asymmetric Feature Matching with Learnable Occlusion Mask | ✓ Link | 4.38 | MaskFlownet-S | 2020-03-24 |
| Volumetric Correspondence Networks for Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 4.40 | VCN | 2019-12-01 |
| LiteFlowNet3: Resolving Correspondence Ambiguity for More Accurate Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 4.45 | LiteFlowNet3 | 2020-07-18 |
| Continual Occlusions and Optical Flow Estimation | | 4.52 | ContinualFlow + ft | 2018-11-05 |
| LiteFlowNet3: Resolving Correspondence Ambiguity for More Accurate Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 4.53 | LiteFlowNet3-S | 2020-07-18 |
| Iterative Residual Refinement for Joint Optical Flow and Occlusion Estimation | ✓ Link | 4.579 | IRR-PWC | 2019-04-10 |
| A Lightweight Optical Flow CNN -- Revisiting Data Fidelity and Regularization | ✓ Link | 4.69 | LiteFlowNet2-ft | 2019-03-15 |
| PWC-Net: CNNs for Optical Flow Using Pyramid, Warping, and Cost Volume | ✓ Link | 5.04 | PWC-Net-ft-final (extra data) | 2017-09-07 |
| FDFlowNet: Fast Optical Flow Estimation using a Deep Lightweight Network | | 5.11 | FDFlowNet-ft | 2020-06-22 |
| Optical Flow in Mostly Rigid Scenes | | 5.38 | MR-Flow | 2017-05-03 |
| LiteFlowNet: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 5.38 | LiteFlowNet-ft | 2018-05-18 |
| FlowNet 2.0: Evolution of Optical Flow Estimation with Deep Networks | ✓ Link | 5.74 | FlowNet2-ft-sintel (extra data) | 2016-12-06 |
| Cost Function Unrolling in Unsupervised Optical Flow | ✓ Link | 5.8 | UnrolledCost | 2020-11-30 |
| FastFlowNet: A Lightweight Network for Fast Optical Flow Estimation | ✓ Link | 6.08 | FastFlowNet-ft | 2021-03-08 |
| FlowNet: Learning Optical Flow with Convolutional Networks | | 7.22 | FlowNetS+ft+v (Sintel fine-tuned, variational refinement) (extra data) | 2015-04-26 |
| Optical Flow Estimation using a Spatial Pyramid Network | ✓ Link | 8.36 | Spynet | 2016-11-03 |