Hongyu Wen will present her General Exam " A Real-World Benchmark for Non-Lambertian Optical Flow " on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM in Friend 202 . Committee Members: Jia Deng (advisor), Felix Heide , Ellen Zhong Abstract: Achieving 3D understanding of non-Lambertian objects is an important task with many useful applications, but most existing algorithms struggle to deal with such objects. One major obstacle towards progress in this field is the lack of holistic non-Lambertian benchmarks---most benchmarks have low scene and object diversity, and none provide multi-layer 3D annotations for objects occluded by transparent surfaces. We introduce a real world benchmark, Layered Flow, containing multi-layer ground truth annotation for optical flow of non-Lambertian objects. Compared to previous benchmarks, our benchmark exhibits greater scene and object diversity, with 15k high quality optical flow and stereo pairs taken over 185 indoor and outdoor scenes and 360 unique objects. Using LayeredFlow as evaluation data, we propose a new task called multi-layer optical flow. To provide training data for this task, we introduce a large-scale densely-annotated synthetic dataset containing 60k images within 30 scenes tailored for non-Lambertian objects. Training on our synthetic dataset enable model to predict multi-layer optical flow, while fine-tuning existing optical flow methods on the dataset notably boosts their performance on non-Lambertian objects without compromising the performance on diffuse objects. Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BL5xNaZVqjog4MOldJeklfA6po4zJmxDZU2VLuD-... Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.