The SIFT flow algorithm is a technique similar to optical flow witch compute correspondences between two images in image matching. Can you please tell me what the significance of flow vector is?
From an engineering point of view, you can imagine the image flow in the same way as water flow. The water flow from the high land to the low land. In a similar way, the pixel intensity flow from high values to low values. This flow can be positive, negative, or zero if there is no change in the pixel values between images.