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Event cameras are emerging vision sensors and their advantages are suitable for various applications such as autonomous robots. Contrast maximization (CMax), which provides state-of-the-art accuracy on motion estimation using events, may…

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

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle visual tasks in challenging scenarios. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sheng Zhong , Zhongyang Ren , Xiya Zhu , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermuller , Yi Zhou

Contrast maximization (CMax) is a framework that provides state-of-the-art results on several event-based computer vision tasks, such as ego-motion or optical flow estimation. However, it may suffer from a problem called event collapse,…

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

Contrast maximization (CMAX) is a direct geometric framework for event-based motion estimation, but its iterative warp-and-accumulate pipeline incurs input-dependent computation and frequent memory accesses, challenging real-time, low-power…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kyeongpil Min , Jongin Choi , Kyeongwon Lee , Woojoo Lee

Event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor that outputs event stream. In this paper, we propose a novel data fusion algorithm called EAS to fuse conventional intensity images with the event stream. The fusion result is applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Liren Yang

Event cameras provide a natural and data efficient representation of visual information, motivating novel computational strategies towards extracting visual information. Inspired by the biological vision system, we propose a behavior driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nan Cai , Pia Bideau

Map based visual inertial localization is a crucial step to reduce the drift in state estimation of mobile robots. The underlying problem for localization is to estimate the pose from a set of 3D-2D feature correspondences, of which the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Yanmei Jiao , Yue Wang , Bo Fu , Qimeng Tan , Lei Chen , Shoudong Huang , Rong Xiong

Reconstructing Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) from low-framerate RGB videos is challenging. This is because large inter-frame motions will increase the uncertainty of the solution space. For example, one pixel in the first frame might…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Junhao He , Jiaxu Wang , Jia Li , Mingyuan Sun , Qiang Zhang , Jiahang Cao , Ziyi Zhang , Yi Gu , Jingkai Sun , Renjing Xu

Distributed optimization advances centralized machine learning methods by enabling parallel and decentralized learning processes over a network of computing nodes. This work provides an accelerated consensus-based distributed algorithm for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Hamid R. Rabiee

Event-based vision sensors, such as the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), are ideally suited for real-time motion analysis. The unique properties encompassed in the readings of such sensors provide high temporal resolution, superior sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Anton Mitrokhin , Cornelia Fermuller , Chethan Parameshwara , Yiannis Aloimonos

Event cameras emit asynchronous brightness-change events where each pixel triggers an event when the last event exceeds a threshold, yielding a history-dependent measurement model. We address online maximum-likelihood identification of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Kazumune Hashimoto , Kazunobu Serizawa , Masako Kishida

The event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor. When the brightness change exceeds the preset threshold, the sensor generates events asynchronously. The number of valid events directly affects the performance of event-based tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xijie Xiang , Lin Zhu , Jianing Li , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Given 2D point correspondences between an image pair, inferring the camera motion is a fundamental issue in the computer vision community. The existing works generally set out from the epipolar constraint and estimate the essential matrix,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guangyang Zeng , Qingcheng Zeng , Xinghan Li , Biqiang Mu , Jiming Chen , Ling Shi , Junfeng Wu

Recovering sharp video sequence from a motion-blurred image is highly ill-posed due to the significant loss of motion information in the blurring process. For event-based cameras, however, fast motion can be captured as events at high time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zhe Jiang , Yu Zhang , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Jiancheng Lv , Yebin Liu

We introduce a method for using event camera data in novel view synthesis via Gaussian Splatting. Event cameras offer exceptional temporal resolution and a high dynamic range. Leveraging these capabilities allows us to effectively address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Toshiya Yura , Ashkan Mirzaei , Igor Gilitschenski

In this work, we propose a novel transformation for events from an event camera that is equivariant to optical flow under convolutions in the 3-D spatiotemporal domain. Events are generated by changes in the image, which are typically due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Ziyun Wang , Kostas Daniilidis

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

The high frame rate is a critical requirement for capturing fast human motions. In this setting, existing markerless image-based methods are constrained by the lighting requirement, the high data bandwidth and the consequent high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Lan Xu , Weipeng Xu , Vladislav Golyanik , Marc Habermann , Lu Fang , Christian Theobalt

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that asynchronously report intensity changes in microsecond resolution. DAVIS can capture high dynamics of a scene and simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Liyuan Pan , Miaomiao Liu , Richard Hartley

Scene reconstruction from casually captured videos has wide applications in real-world scenarios. With recent advancements in differentiable rendering techniques, several methods have attempted to simultaneously optimize scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Bohao Liao , Wei Zhai , Zengyu Wan , Zhixin Cheng , Wenfei Yang , Tianzhu Zhang , Yang Cao , Zheng-Jun Zha