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Bio-inspired neuromorphic cameras asynchronously record pixel brightness changes and generate sparse event streams. They can capture dynamic scenes with little motion blur and more details in extreme illumination conditions. Due to the…

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Neuromorphic computing, which exploits Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic chips, is a promising energy-efficient alternative to traditional AI. CNN-based SNNs are the current mainstream of neuromorphic computing. By contrast, no…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Man Yao , Jiakui Hu , Tianxiang Hu , Yifan Xu , Zhaokun Zhou , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), transform neural signals in the brain into in-structions to control external devices. However, obtaining sufficient training data is difficult as well as limited. With the advent of advanced machine…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-02 Shengjie Zheng , Wenyi Li , Lang Qian , Chenggang He , Xiaojian Li

Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

Neuromorphic vision sensors, or event cameras, differ from conventional cameras in that they do not capture images at a specified rate. Instead, they asynchronously log local brightness changes at each pixel. As a result, event cameras only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Paul Kielty , Cian Ryan , Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani , Waseem Shariff , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging technology enabling low-latency and energy-efficient signal processing. A key algorithmic tool in neuromorphic computing is spiking neural networks (SNNs). SNNs are biologically inspired neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Sanja Karilanova , Subhrakanti Dey , Ayça Özçelikkale

The spike camera, with its high temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range, addresses high-speed imaging challenges like motion blur. It captures photons at each pixel independently, creating binary spike streams rich in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Liangyan Jiang , Chuang Zhu , Yanxu Chen

Event-based cameras are inspired by the sparse and asynchronous spike representation of the biological visual system. However, processing the event data requires either using expensive feature descriptors to transform spikes into frames, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sangmin Yoo , Eric Yeu-Jer Lee , Ziyu Wang , Xinxin Wang , Wei D. Lu

While classical neural networks take a position of a leading method in the machine learning community, spiking neuromorphic systems bring attention and large projects in neuroscience. Spiking neural networks were shown to be able to…

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Depth estimation is a critical task in computer vision, with applications in autonomous navigation, robotics, and augmented reality. Event cameras, which encode temporal changes in light intensity as asynchronous binary spikes, offer unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xin Zhang , Liangxiu Han , Tam Sobeih , Lianghao Han , Darren Dancey

Neuromorphic computing mimics computational principles of the brain in $\textit{silico}$ and motivates research into event-based vision and spiking neural networks (SNNs). Event cameras (ECs) exclusively capture local intensity changes and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ahmed Faisal Abdelrahman , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Maren Bennewitz , Paul G. Plöger

Event cameras are considered to have great potential for computer vision and robotics applications because of their high temporal resolution and low power consumption characteristics. However, the event stream output from event cameras has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xiaoshan Wu , Weihua He , Man Yao , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Guoqi Li

Ultra-low power local signal processing is a crucial aspect for edge applications on always-on devices. Neuromorphic processors emulating spiking neural networks show great computational power while fulfilling the limited power budget as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Philipp Weidel , Sadique Sheik

Event-based vision sensors achieve up to three orders of magnitude better speed vs. power consumption trade off in high-speed control of UAVs compared to conventional image sensors. Event-based cameras produce a sparse stream of events that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Antonio Vitale , Alpha Renner , Celine Nauer , Davide Scaramuzza , Yulia Sandamirskaya

Neuromorphic vision sensors (event cameras) are inherently suitable for spiking neural networks (SNNs) and provide novel neuromorphic vision data for this biomimetic model. Due to the spatiotemporal characteristics, novel data augmentations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Haibo Shen , Yihao Luo , Xiang Cao , Liangqi Zhang , Juyu Xiao , Tianjiang Wang

Insect vision supports complex behaviors including associative learning, navigation, and object detection, and has long motivated computational models for understanding biological visual processing. However, many contemporary models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Adam D. Hines , Karin Nordström , Andrew B. Barron

Neuromorphic vision sensors, such as the dynamic vision sensor (DVS) and spike camera, have gained increasing attention in recent years. The spike camera can detect fine textures by mimicking the fovea in the human visual system, and output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Wei Zhang , Weiquan Yan , Yun Zhao , Wenxiang Cheng , Gang Chen , Huihui Zhou , Yonghong Tian

Novel View Synthesis plays a crucial role by generating new 2D renderings from multi-view images of 3D scenes. However, capturing high-speed scenes with conventional cameras often leads to motion blur, hindering the effectiveness of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jiyuan Zhang , Kang Chen , Shiyan Chen , Yajing Zheng , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a popular spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. Recently proposed SNN training algorithms have significantly reduced the number of time steps (down to 1) for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Anni Li , Peter A. Beerel

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm, enabling energy-efficient data processing through spike-based information transmission. Despite notable advancements in hardware for SNNs, spike encoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 MHD Anas Alsakkal , Runze Wang , Piotr Dudek , Jayawan Wijekoon