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Event cameras are novel sensors that report brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They offer significant advantages with respect to conventional cameras: high temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Henri Rebecq , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level intensity changes in microsecond accuracy with a high dynamic range and low power consumption. Despite these advantages, event cameras cannot be directly applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jinjin Gu , Jinan Zhou , Ringo Sai Wo Chu , Yan Chen , Jiawei Zhang , Xuanye Cheng , Song Zhang , Jimmy S. Ren

Event-based cameras record an asynchronous stream of per-pixel brightness changes. As such, they have numerous advantages over the standard frame-based cameras, including high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and no motion blur. Due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Dimche Kostadinov , Davide Scaramuzza

Scene flow represents the 3D motion of each point in the scene, which explicitly describes the distance and the direction of each point's movement. Scene flow estimation is used in various applications such as autonomous driving fields,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Guangming Wang , Zhiheng Feng , Chaokang Jiang , Hesheng Wang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Pei Zhang , Chutian Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

Human behavior understanding in videos is a complex, still unsolved problem and requires to accurately model motion at both the local (pixel-wise dense prediction) and global (aggregation of motion cues) levels. Current approaches based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-19 C. Spampinato , S. Palazzo , P. D'Oro , D. Giordano , M. Shah

We present a self-supervised learning approach for optical flow. Our method distills reliable flow estimations from non-occluded pixels, and uses these predictions as ground truth to learn optical flow for hallucinated occlusions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Pengpeng Liu , Michael Lyu , Irwin King , Jia Xu

Most of current Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based methods for optical flow estimation focus on learning optical flow on synthetic datasets with groundtruth, which is not practical. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised optical flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Shuosen Guan , Haoxin Li , Wei-Shi Zheng

This paper presents an entirely unsupervised interest point training framework by jointly learning detector and descriptor, which takes an image as input and outputs a probability and a description for every image point. The objective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pei Yan , Yihua Tan , Yuan Xiao , Yuan Tai , Cai Wen

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras (low latency, high dynamic range, low power, etc.). Optical flow estimation methods that work on packets of events trade off speed for accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

Recent work has shown that CNN-based depth and ego-motion estimators can be learned using unlabelled monocular videos. However, the performance is limited by unidentified moving objects that violate the underlying static scene assumption in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jia-Wang Bian , Zhichao Li , Naiyan Wang , Huangying Zhan , Chunhua Shen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian Reid

Learning depth and camera ego-motion from raw unlabeled RGB video streams is seeing exciting progress through self-supervision from strong geometric cues. To leverage not only appearance but also scene geometry, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Rares Ambrus , Vitor Guizilini , Jie Li , Sudeep Pillai , Adrien Gaidon

The broad scope of obstacle avoidance has led to many kinds of computer vision-based approaches. Despite its popularity, it is not a solved problem. Traditional computer vision techniques using cameras and depth sensors often focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

In dense foggy scenes, existing optical flow methods are erroneous. This is due to the degradation caused by dense fog particles that break the optical flow basic assumptions such as brightness and gradient constancy. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Wending Yan , Aashish Sharma , Robby T. Tan

Unsupervised learning from continuous visual streams is a challenging problem that cannot be naturally and efficiently managed in the classic batch-mode setting of computation. The information stream must be carefully processed accordingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Matteo Tiezzi , Stefano Melacci , Alessandro Betti , Marco Maggini , Marco Gori

Event cameras deliver visual information characterized by a high dynamic range and high temporal resolution, offering significant advantages in estimating optical flow for complex lighting conditions and fast-moving objects. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gangwei Xu , Haotong Lin , Zhaoxing Zhang , Hongcheng Luo , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yang

Photometric differences are widely used as supervision signals to train neural networks for estimating depth and camera pose from unlabeled monocular videos. However, this approach is detrimental for model optimization because occlusions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Fei Wang , Jun Cheng , Penglei Liu

Event cameras offer high-temporal-resolution sensing that remains reliable under high-speed motion and challenging lighting, making them promising for localization from LiDAR point clouds in GPS-denied and visually degraded environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kuangyi Chen , Jun Zhang , Yuxi Hu , Yi Zhou , Friedrich Fraundorfer

This paper presents a simple, self-supervised method for magnifying subtle motions in video: given an input video and a magnification factor, we manipulate the video such that its new optical flow is scaled by the desired amount. To train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Zhaoying Pan , Daniel Geng , Andrew Owens

Event cameras are activity-driven bio-inspired vision sensors, thereby resulting in advantages such as sparsity,high temporal resolution, low latency, and power consumption. Given the different sensing modality of event camera and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Lakshmi Annamalai , Vignesh Ramanathan , Chetan Singh Thakur