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EventNet: Asynchronous Recursive Event Processing

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019-04-02 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that mimic retinas to asynchronously report per-pixel intensity changes rather than outputting an actual intensity image at regular intervals. This new paradigm of image sensor offers significant potential advantages; namely, sparse and non-redundant data representation. Unfortunately, however, most of the existing artificial neural network architectures, such as a CNN, require dense synchronous input data, and therefore, cannot make use of the sparseness of the data. We propose EventNet, a neural network designed for real-time processing of asynchronous event streams in a recursive and event-wise manner. EventNet models dependence of the output on tens of thousands of causal events recursively using a novel temporal coding scheme. As a result, at inference time, our network operates in an event-wise manner that is realized with very few sum-of-the-product operations---look-up table and temporal feature aggregation---which enables processing of 1 mega or more events per second on standard CPU. In experiments using real data, we demonstrated the real-time performance and robustness of our framework.

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@article{arxiv.1812.07045,
  title  = {EventNet: Asynchronous Recursive Event Processing},
  author = {Yusuke Sekikawa and Kosuke Hara and Hideo Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.07045},
  year   = {2019}
}