Journal of Applied Optics, Volume. 46, Issue 2, 355(2025)

Fast optical flow estimation algorithm for edge GPU devices

Ke SHI1, Suzhen NIE1, Dongxing LI1、*, Jie CAO2, Yunlong SHENG1, Bin YAO1, and Honglin CHEN1
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  • 1School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255000, China
  • 2School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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    An optical flow estimation network suitable for edge GPU devices was proposed, aiming to solve the problem that dense optical flow estimation was difficult to deploy on embedded systems due to huge quantity of computation. Firstly, to fully exploit the GPU resources, an efficient feature extraction network was designed to reduce memory access costs. Secondly, by adopting a flat-shaped iterative update module to estimate the optical flow, the size of the model was further reduced, and the utilization of GPU bandwidth was improved. Experimental results on different datasets show that the proposed model has efficient inference capability and excellent flow estimation performance. In particular, compared with the advanced lightweight models, the proposed model reduces the error by 12.8% with only 0.54 Mb parameters, and improves the inference speed by 22.2%, demonstrating the satisfactory performance on embedded development boards.

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    Ke SHI, Suzhen NIE, Dongxing LI, Jie CAO, Yunlong SHENG, Bin YAO, Honglin CHEN. Fast optical flow estimation algorithm for edge GPU devices[J]. Journal of Applied Optics, 2025, 46(2): 355

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    Received: Nov. 23, 2023

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: May. 13, 2025

    The Author Email: Dongxing LI (李东兴)

    DOI:10.5768/JAO202546.0202008

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