arXiv · 2610.26690
Foundation Model Driven Optical Flow
Abstract
We investigate how frozen pretrained visual and depth representations support dense optical flow when coupled with a supervised matching network. Building on TTSFlow, this paper studies Dense Prediction Transformer (DPT) feature decoding and one coarse-to-fine refinement stage. Our method fuses features from frozen DINOv2 and Depth Anything V2 models and estimates optical flow through a trainable transformer-based matching pipeline. After optical-flow training on FlyingChairs and FlyingThings3D, it achieves 2.37 endpoint error (EPE) on the Sintel training split, Final pass, compared with 2.52 for the FlowSeek (T) configuration reported here. Our RoCo-Spring 2026 entry, RoCo-29.VSAI, obtains a robustness-balanced score of 1.1038, Spring EPE of 1.411, and RobustSpring proxy EPE of 4.739, with a lower balanced score than seven of the twelve listed reference baselines. These results characterize the complete pipeline, which reuses frozen foundation backbones and performs one refinement stage. Code is available at: \url{https://github.com/Visual-and-Spatial-AI-Lab/FFlow}
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Praroop Chanda, Suryansh Kumar. 2026-10-19. Foundation Model Driven Optical Flow. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26690
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