Computer vision & multimodal· 1981
Determining Optical Flow
On the reading lists
- #328 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #56 in Computer vision & multimodal (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Established differential optical flow estimation with brightness constancy and spatial smoothness.
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The record
- First released
- 1981 (from OpenAlex)
- Citations
- 13,609 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.425 · computed rank 328 · consensus 0.5, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.787 (1980s · all domains), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.