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Towards a physically realistic computationally efficient DVS pixel model

Image and Video Processing 2025-05-13 v1

Abstract

Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) event camera models are important tools for predicting camera response, optimizing biases, and generating realistic simulated datasets. Existing DVS models have been useful, but have not demonstrated high realism for challenging HDR scenes combined with adequate computational efficiency for array-level scene simulation. This paper reports progress towards a physically realistic and computationally efficient DVS model based on large-signal differential equations derived from circuit analysis, with parameters fitted from pixel measurements and circuit simulation. These are combined with an efficient stochastic event generation mechanism based on first-passage-time theory, allowing accurate noise generation with timesteps greater than 1000x longer than previous methods

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@article{arxiv.2505.07386,
  title  = {Towards a physically realistic computationally efficient DVS pixel model},
  author = {Rui Graca and Tobi Delbruck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07386},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Presented in 2025 International Image Sensor Workshop

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