CVPR 2026 Papers

Modern optical flow estimation, though empowered by recent deep neural architectures, remains rooted in the discrete correspondence paradigm inherited from classical vision. Most networks infer frame-to-frame displacements, capturing where pixels move but not how motion evolves continuously through time. Yet physical motion in the real world follows smooth dynamics governed by underlying velocity fields, as long established in fluid mechanics and transport theory. To bridge this gap, we introduce Optical Flow Matching (OFM), a continuous formulation that learns a time-dependent velocity field to transport pixel coordinates along motion distribution coherent trajectories. A key component of our OFM is Triangle Velocities Synergy (TVS), a neat yet pragmatic geometric mechanism that provides a stable and physically meaningful velocity construction, ensuring that continuous transport remains well-defined. Combined with an Euler-based ODE solver, OFM yields flow fields that are temporally smooth, geometrically consistent, and process-interpretable. Experiments on Sintel, KITTI, and Spring demonstrate that OFM achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, enhanced temporal stability, and notably stronger cross-dataset generalization, advancing optical flow estimation from correspondence inference to continuous dynamical reasoning.

Table structure recognition in document AI faces significant challenges due to layout inconsistencies, merged cells, and complex nested structures, which is further exacerbated by the scarcity of large, diverse annotated datasets. In this paper, we present PIX-TAB (Efficient PIXel-Precise TABle Structure Recognition Approach) that provides exact, pixel-level structure using a small, lightweight model that can run on-device. The approach is language-agnostic, as it allows adding support for a new languages simply by replacing the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model without modifying to the core structure recognition model. Key innovations include: position-aware pixel-precise tokens for deterministic cell reconstruction; speculative decoding for faster sequence generation, and training-only box supervision to stabilize spatial grounding; region-based image segmentation. To mitigate data scarcity we propose a pipeline for generating a large synthetic table dataset. Experimental results validate each component. To address the limitations of existing evaluation methods we introduce TEDS_ struct100 and TEDS_ 100 metrics. Speculative decoding approach significantly improves recognition speed while maintaining accuracy. Finally, the combined techniques enable a mobile-optimized model that is more than three times faster than the full-size version.