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MPI Sintel

Introduced in A Naturalistic Open Source Movie for Optical Flow Evaluation1 Jan 2012 archive 2025-07-28

MPI (Max Planck Institute) Sintel is a dataset for optical flow evaluation that has 1064 synthesized stereo images and ground truth data for disparity. Sintel is derived from open-source 3D animated short film Sintel. The dataset has 23 different scenes. The stereo images are RGB while the disparity is grayscale. Both have resolution of 1024×436 pixels and 8-bit per channel.

Source: Fast Disparity Estimation using Dense Networks*

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 5 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Optical Flow Estimation Sintel-clean MEMFOF-L Average End-Point Error 0.963 MEMFOF: High-Resolution Training for Memory-Efficient... msu-video-group/memfof 29 Compare
Optical Flow Estimation Sintel-final MEMFOF-L Average End-Point Error 1.907 MEMFOF: High-Resolution Training for Memory-Efficient... msu-video-group/memfof 28 Compare
Optical Flow Estimation Sintel Clean unsupervised MDFlow Average End-Point Error 4.16 MDFlow: Unsupervised Optical Flow Learning by Reliable... ltkong218/mdflow 5 Compare
Optical Flow Estimation Sintel Final unsupervised UpFlow Average End-Point Error 5.32 UPFlow: Upsampling Pyramid for Unsupervised Optical Flow Learning twhui/LiteFlowNet3 +1 5 Compare
Video Prediction MPI Sintel MCnet [villegas2017mcnet] LPIPS 0.223 Temporal View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes through 3D... NagabhushanSN95/DeCOMPnet 1 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 34 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 198. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
MEMFOF: High-Resolution Training for Memory-Efficient Multi-Frame Optical Flow Estimation 1 2 29 Jun 2025 ran 9 of 13 samples (4 unverified)
DPFlow: Adaptive Optical Flow Estimation with a Dual-Pyramid Framework 1 2 19 Mar 2025 not harvested
RAPIDFlow: Recurrent Adaptable Pyramids with Iterative Decoding for Efficient Optical Flow Estimation 1 2 1 May 2024 not harvested
Recurrent Partial Kernel Network for Efficient Optical Flow Estimation 1 2 1 Feb 2024 not harvested
Rethinking RAFT for Efficient Optical Flow 1 2 1 Jan 2024 not harvested
CroCo v2: Improved Cross-view Completion Pre-training for Stereo Matching and Optical Flow 1 2 18 Nov 2022 not harvested
MDFlow: Unsupervised Optical Flow Learning by Reliable Mutual Knowledge Distillation 1 4 11 Nov 2022 ran 2 of 2 samples (0 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
Unifying Flow, Stereo and Depth Estimation 1 2 10 Nov 2022 not harvested
Temporal View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes through 3D Object Motion Estimation with Multi-Plane Images 1 1 19 Aug 2022 not harvested
Deep Equilibrium Optical Flow Estimation 1 2 18 Apr 2022 not harvested
FlowFormer: A Transformer Architecture for Optical Flow 1 1 30 Mar 2022 ran 1 of 7 samples (6 unverified)
Global Matching with Overlapping Attention for Optical Flow Estimation 1 2 21 Mar 2022 ran 7 of 14 samples (7 unverified)
Perceiver IO: A General Architecture for Structured Inputs & Outputs 9 2 30 Jul 2021 ran 7 of 11 samples (4 unverified)
Learning to Estimate Hidden Motions with Global Motion Aggregation 2 2 6 Apr 2021 ran 1 of 4 samples (3 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
FastFlowNet: A Lightweight Network for Fast Optical Flow Estimation 2 2 8 Mar 2021 ran 2 of 2 samples (0 unverified; 2 pointer-only for licence)
UPFlow: Upsampling Pyramid for Unsupervised Optical Flow Learning 2 2 1 Dec 2020 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)
Cost Function Unrolling in Unsupervised Optical Flow 1 2 30 Nov 2020 not harvested
LiteFlowNet3: Resolving Correspondence Ambiguity for More Accurate Optical Flow Estimation 1 4 18 Jul 2020 not harvested
FDFlowNet: Fast Optical Flow Estimation using a Deep Lightweight Network 0 2 22 Jun 2020 not harvested
What Matters in Unsupervised Optical Flow 5 2 8 Jun 2020 ran 1 of 17 samples (16 unverified)
Learning by Analogy: Reliable Supervision from Transformations for Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation 2 2 29 Mar 2020 ran 1 of 5 samples (4 unverified)
RAFT: Recurrent All-Pairs Field Transforms for Optical Flow 17 2 26 Mar 2020 ran 40 of 66 samples (26 unverified; 17 pointer-only for licence)
MaskFlownet: Asymmetric Feature Matching with Learnable Occlusion Mask 3 4 24 Mar 2020 ran 0 of 11 samples (11 unverified)
ScopeFlow: Dynamic Scene Scoping for Optical Flow 1 2 25 Feb 2020 not harvested
Volumetric Correspondence Networks for Optical Flow 2 1 1 Dec 2019 not harvested
SelFlow: Self-Supervised Learning of Optical Flow 1 2 19 Apr 2019 ran 0 of 12 samples (12 unverified)
Iterative Residual Refinement for Joint Optical Flow and Occlusion Estimation 2 2 10 Apr 2019 ran 0 of 6 samples (6 unverified)
A Lightweight Optical Flow CNN -- Revisiting Data Fidelity and Regularization 3 2 15 Mar 2019 not harvested
Continual Occlusions and Optical Flow Estimation 0 1 5 Nov 2018 not harvested
ProFlow: Learning to Predict Optical Flow 0 1 3 Jun 2018 not harvested

The full list of 34 is in the JSON twin.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • Sintel-clean
  • Sintel-final
  • Sintel-final - unsupervised
  • Sintel Clean unsupervised
  • Sintel Final unsupervised
  • MPI Sintel

6 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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