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Event cameras are novel, bio-inspired visual sensors, whose pixels output asynchronous and independent timestamped spikes at local intensity changes, called 'events'. Event cameras offer advantages over conventional frame-based cameras in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Cedric Scheerlinck , Henri Rebecq , Timo Stoffregen , Nick Barnes , Robert Mahony , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras also known as neuromorphic sensors are relatively a new technology with some privilege over the RGB cameras. The most important one is their difference in capturing the light changes in the environment, each pixel changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani , Waseem Shariff , Cian Ryan , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

We propose DistSurf-OF, a novel optical flow method for neuromorphic cameras. Neuromorphic cameras (or event detection cameras) are an emerging sensor modality that makes use of dynamic vision sensors (DVS) to report asynchronously the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Mohammed Almatrafi , Raymond Baldwin , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Keigo Hirakawa

Event cameras operate fundamentally differently from traditional Active Pixel Sensor (APS) cameras, offering significant advantages. Recent research has developed simulators to convert video frames into events, addressing the shortage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Xiao Jiang , Fei Zhou , Jiongzhi Lin

The utilisation of event cameras represents an important and swiftly evolving trend aimed at addressing the constraints of traditional video systems. Particularly within the automotive domain, these cameras find significant relevance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kamil Jeziorek , Piotr Wzorek , Krzysztof Blachut , Andrea Pinna , Tomasz Kryjak

Event cameras provide an advantage over traditional frame-based cameras when capturing fast-moving objects without a motion blur. They achieve this by recording changes in light intensity (known as events), thus allowing them to operate at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Wachirawit Ponghiran , Chamika Mihiranga Liyanagedera , Kaushik Roy

Time event cameras are a novel technology for recording scene information at extremely low latency and with low power consumption. Event cameras output a stream of events that encapsulate pixel-level light intensity changes within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Mohamed Moustafa , Joseph Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras. They operate asynchronously, sampling the scene at microsecond resolution and producing a stream of brightness changes. This unconventional output has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

Convolutional neural network inference on video input is computationally expensive and requires high memory bandwidth. Recently, DeltaCNN managed to reduce the cost by only processing pixels with significant updates over the previous frame.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mathias Parger , Chengcheng Tang , Thomas Neff , Christopher D. Twigg , Cem Keskin , Robert Wang , Markus Steinberger

Event cameras offer significant advantages over traditional frame-based sensors. These include microsecond temporal resolution, robustness under varying lighting conditions and low power consumption. Nevertheless, the effective processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kamil Jeziorek , Tomasz Kryjak

Reliable perception during fast motion maneuvers or in high dynamic range environments is crucial for robotic systems. Since event cameras are robust to these challenging conditions, they have great potential to increase the reliability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Nico Messikommer , Daniel Gehrig , Mathias Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that perform well in challenging illumination conditions and have high temporal resolution. However, their concept is fundamentally different from traditional frame-based cameras. The pixels of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Xin Peng , Ling Gao , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

The dynamic range limitation of conventional RGB cameras reduces global contrast and causes loss of high-frequency details such as textures and edges in complex traffic environments (e.g., nighttime driving, tunnels), hindering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zhanwen Liu , Yujing Sun , Yang Wang , Nan Yang , Shengbo Eben Li , Xiangmo Zhao

Neuromorphic cameras, also known as event-based cameras, can detect changes in the environmental brightness asynchronously and independently for each pixel. They output the brightness changes, i.e., events, as 3-D (2-D pixel coordinates +…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Shimpei Harada , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

Event cameras are novel vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes ("events") instead of traditional video frames. These asynchronous sensors offer several advantages over traditional cameras, such as, high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Guillermo Gallego , Mathias Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras offer many advantages over standard cameras due to their distinctive principle of operation: low power, low latency, high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Nonetheless, the success of many downstream visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Weng Fei Low , Gim Hee Lee

Spike cameras, as innovative neuromorphic devices, generate continuous spike streams to capture high-speed scenes with lower bandwidth and higher dynamic range than traditional RGB cameras. However, reconstructing high-quality images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Kang Chen , Yajing Zheng , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

Recognizing target objects using an event-based camera draws more and more attention in recent years. Existing works usually represent the event streams into point-cloud, voxel, image, etc, and learn the feature representations using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Chengguo Yuan , Yu Jin , Zongzhen Wu , Fanting Wei , Yangzirui Wang , Lan Chen , Xiao Wang

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

It is difficult to recover the motion field from a real-world footage given a mixture of camera shake and other photometric effects. In this paper we propose a hybrid framework by interleaving a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Wenbin Li , Da Chen , Zhihan Lv , Yan Yan , Darren Cosker