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This paper challenges the prevailing deep learning monoculture in LiDAR scene flow estimation by proposing CorrelationFlow, a training-free geometric method based on classical computer vision operations. By reducing motion recovery to connected-component labeling and correlation maximization, it demonstrates robust performance across heterogeneous datasets without relying on self-supervised losses or large-scale parameter tuning. The work suggests that significant progress in autonomous driving perception may come from re-evaluating problem formulations rather than simply scaling neural networks.
CorrelationFlow: A Training-Free Geometric Approach for LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation
arXiv:2607.29237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LiDAR scene flow estimation has settled into a monoculture: nearly all recent methods share the same feed-forward architecture and the same family of self-supervised losses, inheriting each other's assumptions, and each other's blind spots. When those assumptions fail, as they do for sparse, distant, or fast-moving objects, every method built on them fails together, and adding parameters or simulated training data does not fix what the formulation itself gets wrong. This paper takes the opposite path. We present CorrelationFlow, a training-free geometric framework that reduces scene flow to two textbook operations: connected-component labeling and correlation maximization on bird's-eye-view occupancy images. Objects are isolated as spatio-temporal connected components, their motions recovered as correlation peaks, and the resulting velocities propagated to all member points. However, this dense correlation evaluates every candidate displacement of every cluster and requires a window of past sweeps; therefore, we develop a sparse counterpart that operates on a single sweep pair by matching lightweight occupancy descriptors at boundary key points. Because nothing is trained, nothing is inherited: on the multi-domain test set of the Argoverse 2 2026 Scene Flow Challenge, spanning five datasets with heterogeneous sensors and platforms, CorrelationFlow ranked second among unsupervised methods and degrades most gracefully at long range, where the shared assumptions of learned methods break down. Our results suggest that a substantial share of the scene flow problem is solvable by classical computer vision, and that progress may require questioning the formulation, not scaling it.
Abstract:LiDAR scene flow estimation has settled into a monoculture: nearly all recent methods share the same feed-forward architecture and the same family of self-supervised losses, inheriting each other's assumptions, and each other's blind spots. When those assumptions fail, as they do for sparse, distant, or fast-moving objects, every method built on them fails together, and adding parameters or simulated training data does not fix what the formulation itself gets wrong. This paper takes the opposite path. We present CorrelationFlow, a training-free geometric framework that reduces scene flow to two textbook operations: connected-component labeling and correlation maximization on bird's-eye-view occupancy images. Objects are isolated as spatio-temporal connected components, their motions recovered as correlation peaks, and the resulting velocities propagated to all member points. However, this dense correlation evaluates every candidate displacement of every cluster and requires a window of past sweeps; therefore, we develop a sparse counterpart that operates on a single sweep pair by matching lightweight occupancy descriptors at boundary key points. Because nothing is trained, nothing is inherited: on the multi-domain test set of the Argoverse 2 2026 Scene Flow Challenge, spanning five datasets with heterogeneous sensors and platforms, CorrelationFlow ranked second among unsupervised methods and degrades most gracefully at long range, where the shared assumptions of learned methods break down. Our results suggest that a substantial share of the scene flow problem is solvable by classical computer vision, and that progress may require questioning the formulation, not scaling it.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2607.29237 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2607.29237v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.29237 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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