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Event cameras provide a number of benefits over traditional cameras, such as the ability to track incredibly fast motions, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. However, their application into computer vision problems, many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Ziyun Wang , Kaung Khant , Kostas Daniilidis

In Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), multi-object tracking is primarily based on frame-based cameras. However, these cameras tend to perform poorly under dim lighting and high-speed motion conditions. Event cameras, characterized by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mengyu Li , Xingcheng Zhou , Guang Chen , Alois Knoll , Hu Cao

The precise knowledge of the positions of space debris objects and in particular of defunct satellites is fundamental for satellite operations. Several studies showed that it is possible to improve the accuracy of the orbit determination…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-04 E. Cordelli , P. Schlatter , P. Lauber , T. Schildknecht

Event cameras are novel sensors that report brightness changes in the form of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They have significant advantages over conventional cameras: high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Henri Rebecq , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun , Davide Scaramuzza

Tracking any point (TAP) recently shifted the motion estimation paradigm from focusing on individual salient points with local templates to tracking arbitrary points with global image contexts. However, while research has mostly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Friedhelm Hamann , Daniel Gehrig , Filbert Febryanto , Kostas Daniilidis , Guillermo Gallego

Autonomous inspection of powerlines with quadrotors is challenging. Flights require persistent perception to keep a close look at the lines. We propose a method that uses event cameras to robustly track powerlines. Event cameras are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Alexander Dietsche , Giovanni Cioffi , Javier Hidalgo-Carrio , Davide Scaramuzza

We investigate a scenario where a chaser spacecraft or satellite equipped with a monocular camera navigates in close proximity to a target spacecraft. The satellite's primary objective is to construct a representation of the operational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lorenzo Ticozzi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Eye-tracking technology has gained significant attention in recent years due to its wide range of applications in human-computer interaction, virtual and augmented reality, and wearable health. Traditional RGB camera-based eye-tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Argha Sen , Nuwan Bandara , Ila Gokarn , Thivya Kandappu , Archan Misra

Event-based vision, inspired by the human visual system, offers transformative capabilities such as low latency, high dynamic range, and reduced power consumption. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of event cameras, tracing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Bharatesh Chakravarthi , Aayush Atul Verma , Kostas Daniilidis , Cornelia Fermuller , Yezhou Yang

Despite significant progress, RGB-based trackers remain vulnerable to challenging imaging conditions, such as low illumination and fast motion. Event cameras offer a promising alternative by asynchronously capturing pixel-wise brightness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Duoqing Yang , Wenhao Zhang , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Yonghong Tian , Bin Luo

Event sensors offer high temporal resolution visual sensing, which makes them ideal for perceiving fast visual phenomena without suffering from motion blur. Certain applications in robotics and vision-based navigation require 3D perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ethan Elms , Yasir Latif , Tae Ha Park , Tat-Jun Chin

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. These cameras do not suffer from motion blur and have a very high dynamic range, which enables them to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Guillermo Gallego , Jon E. A. Lund , Elias Mueggler , Henri Rebecq , Tobi Delbruck , Davide Scaramuzza

In recent decades, visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) has gained significant interest in both academia and industry. It estimates camera motion and reconstructs the environment concurrently using visual sensors on a moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Kunping Huang , Sen Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Event cameras have recently gained in popularity as they hold strong potential to complement regular cameras in situations of high dynamics or challenging illumination. An important problem that may benefit from the addition of an event…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ling Gao , Yuxuan Liang , Jiaqi Yang , Shaoxun Wu , Chenyu Wang , Jiaben Chen , Laurent Kneip

3D object detection is essential for autonomous systems, enabling precise localization and dimension estimation. While LiDAR and RGB cameras are widely used, their fixed frame rates create perception gaps in high-speed scenarios. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jae-Young Kang , Hoonhee Cho , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Event-based cameras are popular for tracking fast-moving objects due to their high temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for tracking event blobs using raw events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Ziwei Wang , Timothy Molloy , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

Event cameras are a promising candidate to enable high speed vision-based control due to their low sensor latency and high temporal resolution. However, purely event-based feedback has yet to be used in the control of drones. In this work,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Rika Sugimoto Dimitrova , Mathias Gehrig , Dario Brescianini , Davide Scaramuzza

A classic task in robotics is tracking a target in the external environment. There are several well-documented approaches to this problem. This paper presents a novel approach to this problem using infrared time of flight sensors. The use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Noah Haeske

Fast variability of optical objects is an interesting though poorly explored subject in modern astronomy. Real-time data processing and identification of transient celestial events in the images is very important for such study as it allows…

Perception systems for ornithopters face severe challenges. The harsh vibrations and abrupt movements caused during flapping are prone to produce motion blur and strong lighting condition changes. Their strict restrictions in weight, size,…