One-page printable decision worksheet that maps your feature's sparsity, latency, and accuracy requirements to one of the six production-grade optical flow algorithms (Lucas-Kanade, Farnebäck, DIS, RAFT, SEA-RAFT, FlowFormer), with the per-frame compute budget for each on CPU and GPU.
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AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video
This optical flow algorithm picker maps sparsity, latency and accuracy needs to Lucas-Kanade, Farneback, DIS, RAFT, SEA-RAFT or FlowFormer, with CPU and GPU compute budgets. Volume 6 covers this topic in depth: computer vision including tracking and motion, model artifacts, deployment topologies and the ML minimum product teams need to pick the right model. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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