diff --git a/modules/optflow/include/opencv2/optflow/rlofflow.hpp b/modules/optflow/include/opencv2/optflow/rlofflow.hpp
index 58daf5337..48456d733 100644
--- a/modules/optflow/include/opencv2/optflow/rlofflow.hpp
+++ b/modules/optflow/include/opencv2/optflow/rlofflow.hpp
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ public:
  * @note If the grid size is set to (1,1) and the forward backward threshold <= 0 than pixelwise dense optical flow field is
  * computed by RLOF without using interpolation.
  *
+ * @note Note that in output, if no correspondences are found between \a I0 and \a I1, the \a flow is set to 0.
  * @see optflow::calcOpticalFlowDenseRLOF(), optflow::RLOFOpticalFlowParameter
 */
 class CV_EXPORTS_W DenseRLOFOpticalFlow : public DenseOpticalFlow
@@ -493,6 +494,7 @@ public:
  * computed with the RLOF.
  *
  * @note SIMD parallelization is only available when compiling with SSE4.1.
+ * @note Note that in output, if no correspondences are found between \a I0 and \a I1, the \a flow is set to 0.
  *
  * @sa optflow::DenseRLOFOpticalFlow, optflow::RLOFOpticalFlowParameter
 */
diff --git a/modules/optflow/src/rlofflow.cpp b/modules/optflow/src/rlofflow.cpp
index 5e756f397..e9c4b1297 100644
--- a/modules/optflow/src/rlofflow.cpp
+++ b/modules/optflow/src/rlofflow.cpp
@@ -203,7 +203,11 @@ public:
             filtered_prevPoints = prevPoints;
             filtered_currPoints = currPoints;
         }
-
+        // Interpolators below expect non empty matches
+        if (filtered_prevPoints.empty()) {
+            flow.setTo(0);
+            return;
+        }
         if (interp_type == InterpolationType::INTERP_EPIC)
         {
             Ptr<ximgproc::EdgeAwareInterpolator> gd = ximgproc::createEdgeAwareInterpolator();