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Object detection and tracking is an essential perception task for enabling fully autonomous navigation in robotic systems. Edge robot systems such as small drones need to execute complex maneuvers at high-speeds with limited resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Amogh Joshi , Arjun Roy , Rohan Kumar Manna , Manish Nagaraj , Kaushik Roy

Recovering the camera motion and scene geometry from visual data is a fundamental problem in the field of computer vision. Its success in standard vision is attributed to the maturity of feature extraction, data association and multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhongyang Ren , Bangyan Liao , Delei Kong , Jinghang Li , Peidong Liu , Laurent Kneip , Guillermo Gallego , Yi Zhou

We present a method that leverages the complementarity of event cameras and standard cameras to track visual features with low-latency. Event cameras are novel sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes, called "events". They offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Daniel Gehrig , Henri Rebecq , Guillermo Gallego , Davide Scaramuzza

Recent years have seen a considerable surge of research on developing heuristic approaches to realize analog computing using physical waves. Among these, neuromorphic computing using light waves is envisioned to feature performance metrics…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-18 Cheng-Chia Tsai , Xiaoyan Huang , Zhicheng Wu , Zongfu Yu , Nanfang Yu

Identifying independently moving objects is an essential task for dynamic scene understanding. However, traditional cameras used in dynamic scenes may suffer from motion blur or exposure artifacts due to their sampling principle. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yi Zhou , Guillermo Gallego , Xiuyuan Lu , Siqi Liu , Shaojie Shen

Event cameras generate asynchronous and sparse event streams capturing changes in light intensity. They offer significant advantages over conventional frame-based cameras, such as a higher dynamic range and an extremely faster data rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yi Tian , Juan Andrade-Cetto

The point spread function (PSF) serves as a fundamental descriptor linking the real-world scene to the captured signal, manifesting as camera blur. Accurate PSF estimation is crucial for both optical characterization and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiajian He , Enjie Hu , Shiqi Chen , Tianchen Qiu , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu , Yueting Chen

Being inspired by the biological eye, event camera is a novel asynchronous technology that pose a paradigm shift in acquisition of visual information. This paradigm enables event cameras to capture pixel-size fast motions much more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 David El-Chai Ben-Ezra , Ron Arad , Ayelet Padowicz , Israel Tugendhaft

Event cameras have the potential to capture continuous motion information over time and space, making them well-suited for optical flow estimation. However, most existing learning-based methods for event-based optical flow adopt frame-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zuntao Liu , Hao Zhuang , Junjie Jiang , Yuhang Song , Zheng Fang

In moving camera videos, motion segmentation is commonly performed using the image plane motion of pixels, or optical flow. However, objects that are at different depths from the camera can exhibit different optical flows even if they share…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Manjunath Narayana , Allen Hanson , Erik Learned-Miller

Event-based cameras can overpass frame-based cameras limitations for important tasks such as high-speed motion detection during self-driving cars navigation in low illumination conditions. The event cameras' high temporal resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Haixin Sun , Minh-Quan Dao , Vincent Fremont

Real-time moving object detection in unconstrained scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. In this paper, an optical flow based moving object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Jiagang Zhu , Zheng Zhu

We study the problem of estimating optical flow from event cameras. One important issue is how to build a high-quality event-flow dataset with accurate event values and flow labels. Previous datasets are created by either capturing real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Xinglong Luo , Kunming Luo , Ao Luo , Zhengning Wang , Ping Tan , Shuaicheng Liu

Event cameras are a paradigm shift in camera technology. Instead of full frames, the sensor captures a sparse set of events caused by intensity changes. Since only the changes are transferred, those cameras are able to capture quick…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Christian Reinbacher , Gottfried Munda , Thomas Pock

Visual object tracking under challenging conditions of motion and light can be hindered by the capabilities of conventional cameras, prone to producing images with motion blur. Event cameras are novel sensors suited to robustly perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues

Optical flow computation with frame-based cameras provides high accuracy but the speed is limited either by the model size of the algorithm or by the frame rate of the camera. This makes it inadequate for high-speed applications. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Ashwin Sanjay Lele , Arijit Raychowdhury

This paper studies optical flow estimation, a critical task in motion analysis with applications in autonomous navigation, action recognition, and film production. Traditional optical flow methods require consecutive frames, which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mo Zhou , Jianwei Wang , Xuanmeng Zhang , Dylan Campbell , Kai Wang , Long Yuan , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Rahul Ahuja , Chris Baker , Wilko Schwarting

Scene flow is a challenging task aimed at jointly estimating the 3D structure and motion of the sensed environment. Although deep learning solutions achieve outstanding performance in terms of accuracy, these approaches divide the whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia

Event cameras provide a compelling alternative to traditional frame-based sensors, capturing dynamic scenes with high temporal resolution and low latency. Moving objects trigger events with precise timestamps along their trajectory,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhongyang Zhang , Jiacheng Qiu , Shuyang Cui , Yijun Luo , Tauhidur Rahman