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Event cameras are bioinspired sensors with reaction times in the order of microseconds. This property makes them appealing for use in highly-dynamic computer vision applications. In this work,we explore the limits of this sensing technology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 William Chamorro , Juan Andrade-Cetto , Joan Solà

Star trackers are primarily optical devices that are used to estimate the attitude of a spacecraft by recognising and tracking star patterns. Currently, most star trackers use conventional optical sensors. In this application paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Tat-Jun Chin , Samya Bagchi , Anders Eriksson , Andre van Schaik

Compared to regular cameras, Dynamic Vision Sensors or Event Cameras can output compact visual data based on a change in the intensity in each pixel location asynchronously. In this paper, we study the application of current image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Masoud Dayani Najafabadi , Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh

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

Monitoring aerial objects is crucial for security, wildlife conservation, and environmental studies. Traditional RGB-based approaches struggle with challenges such as scale variations, motion blur, and high-speed object movements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Gabriele Magrini , Federico Becattini , Giovanni Colombo , Pietro Pala

Event cameras provide high-temporal-resolution visual sensing that is well suited for observing fast-moving aerial objects; however, their use for drone trajectory prediction remains limited. This work introduces an event-only drone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hari Prasanth S. M. , Pejman Habibiroudkenar , Eerik Alamikkotervo , Dimitrios Bouzoulas , Risto Ojala

Event cameras trigger events asynchronously and independently upon a sufficient change of the logarithmic brightness level. The neuromorphic sensor has several advantages over standard cameras including low latency, absence of motion blur,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Peng Xin , Xu Wanting , Yang Jiaqi , Kneip Laurent

We present a novel method for measuring the rate of periodic phenomena (e.g., rotation, flicker, and vibration), by an event camera, a device asynchronously reporting brightness changes at independently operating pixels with high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jakub Kolář , Radim Špetlík , Jiří Matas

Because of their high temporal resolution, increased resilience to motion blur, and very sparse output, event cameras have been shown to be ideal for low-latency and low-bandwidth feature tracking, even in challenging scenarios. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Nico Messikommer , Carter Fang , Mathias Gehrig , Giovanni Cioffi , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras in motion tend to detect object boundaries or texture edges, which produce lines of brightness changes, especially in man-made environments. While lines can constitute a robust intermediate representation that is consistently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Gwangtak Bae , Jaeho Shin , Seunggu Kang , Junho Kim , Ayoung Kim , Young Min Kim

Pose tracking of uncooperative spacecraft is an essential technology for space exploration and on-orbit servicing, which remains an open problem. Event cameras possess numerous advantages, such as high dynamic range, high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zibin Liu , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Yifei Bian , Pengju Sun , Qifeng Yu

In this work, we propose an edge detection algorithm by estimating a lifetime of an event produced from dynamic vision sensor (DVS), also known as event camera. The event camera, unlike traditional CMOS camera, generates sparse event data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Sangil Lee , Haram Kim , H. Jin Kim

A common sensing problem is to use a set of stationary tracking locations to monitor a collection of moving devices: Given $n$ objects that need to be tracked, each following its own trajectory, and $m$ stationary traffic control stations,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Chek-Manh Loi , Michael Perk , Malte Hoffmann , Sándor Fekete

Event-based vision sensors achieve up to three orders of magnitude better speed vs. power consumption trade off in high-speed control of UAVs compared to conventional image sensors. Event-based cameras produce a sparse stream of events that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Antonio Vitale , Alpha Renner , Celine Nauer , Davide Scaramuzza , Yulia Sandamirskaya

Event cameras are motion-activated sensors that capture pixel-level illumination changes instead of the intensity image with a fixed frame rate. Compared with the standard cameras, it can provide reliable visual perception during high-speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Weipeng Guan , Peiyu Chen , Yuhan Xie , Peng Lu

Motion capture systems are a widespread tool in research to record ground-truth poses of objects. Commercial systems use reflective markers attached to the object and then triangulate pose of the object from multiple camera views.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Leonard Bauersfeld , Davide Scaramuzza

Drone-based rapid and accurate environmental edge detection is highly advantageous for tasks such as disaster relief and autonomous navigation. Current methods, using radars or cameras, raise deployment costs and burden lightweight drones…

This paper presents a new event-based method for detecting and tracking features from the output of an event-based camera. Unlike many tracking algorithms from the computer vision community, this process does not aim for particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Laurent Dardelet , Sio-Hoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

Event-based vision has already revolutionized the perception task for robots by promising faster response, lower energy consumption, and lower bandwidth without introducing motion blur. In this work, a novel deep learning method based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Kristoffer Fogh Andersen , Huy Xuan Pham , Halil Ibrahim Ugurlu , Erdal Kayacan

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture the per-pixel intensity changes asynchronously and produce event streams encoding the time, pixel position, and polarity (sign) of the intensity changes. Event cameras possess a myriad of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Xu Zheng , Yexin Liu , Yunfan Lu , Tongyan Hua , Tianbo Pan , Weiming Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Lin Wang