ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Flownet

Imagine you have a bowl full of water and you put your hand in it. As you move your hand, you create big and small waves in the water. Each wave is like a picture of how the water moves in that moment.

Now, imagine you have a camera looking at the water from the side. This camera will take two pictures of the water with a little bit of time in between them. When we look at these two pictures, we can see how the water moved in between them.

Flownet is like that camera but for pictures and videos! It helps us understand how things move and change by looking at two different pictures or frames in a video. It's often used in computer vision to track moving objects or to help a robot move through a changing environment.

So, in short, flownet helps us understand how things move by looking at pictures or videos a little bit apart from each other.
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