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Event cameras are a kind of bio-inspired sensors that generate data when the brightness changes, which are of low-latency and high dynamic range (HDR). However, due to the nature of the sparse event stream, event-based mapping can only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Yan Dong

Event-based structured light systems have recently been introduced as an exciting alternative to conventional frame-based triangulation systems for the 3D measurements of diffuse surfaces. Important benefits include the fast capture speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Aniket Dashpute , Jiazhang Wang , James Taylor , Oliver Cossairt , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Florian Willomitzer

An event camera detects per-pixel intensity difference and produces asynchronous event stream with low latency, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. As a trade-off, the event camera has low spatial resolution. We propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-13 S. Mohammad Mostafavi I. , Jonghyun Choi , Kuk-Jin Yoon

This paper addresses the novel challenge of ``rewinding'' time from a single captured image to recover the fleeting moments missed just before the shutter button is pressed. This problem poses a significant challenge in computer vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jingxi Chen , Brandon Y. Feng , Haoming Cai , Mingyang Xie , Christopher Metzler , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

By monitoring temporal contrast, event-based vision sensors can provide high temporal resolution and low latency while maintaining low power consumption and simplicity in circuit structure. These characteristics have garnered significant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-11 Xinyue Qin , Junlin Zhang , Wenzhong Bao , Chun Lin , Honglei Chen

We present a unifying framework to solve several computer vision problems with event cameras: motion, depth and optical flow estimation. The main idea of our framework is to find the point trajectories on the image plane that are best…

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

Accurate depth estimation under adverse night conditions has practical impact and applications, such as on autonomous driving and rescue robots. In this work, we studied monocular depth estimation at night time in which various adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Jianing Qiu , Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Benny Lo

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is a crucial task in computational photography, which captures details across diverse lighting conditions. Traditional HDR fusion methods face limitations in dynamic scenes with extreme exposure differences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shi Guo , Zixuan Chen , Ziran Zhang , Yutian Chen , Gangwei Xu , Tianfan Xue

Event-based vision revolutionizes traditional image sensing by capturing asynchronous intensity variations rather than static frames, enabling ultrafast temporal resolution, sparse data encoding, and enhanced motion perception. While this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Joey Mulé , Dhandeep Challagundla , Rachit Saini , Riadul Islam

Adverse weather conditions, particularly heavy snowfall, pose significant challenges to both human drivers and autonomous vehicles. Traditional image-based de-snowing methods often introduce hallucination artifacts as they rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Manasi Muglikar , Nico Messikommer , Marco Cannici , Davide Scaramuzza

Despite significant progress, RGB-based trackers remain vulnerable to challenging imaging conditions, such as low illumination and fast motion. Event cameras offer a promising alternative by asynchronously capturing pixel-wise brightness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Duoqing Yang , Wenhao Zhang , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Yonghong Tian , Bin Luo

Humans are remarkable at navigating and moving through dynamic and complex spaces, such as crowded streets. For robots to do the same, it is crucial that they are endowed with highly reactive obstacle avoidance robust to partial and poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Lukas Huber , Aude Billard , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Event cameras are advantageous for tasks that require vision sensors with low-latency and sparse output responses. However, the development of deep network algorithms using event cameras has been slow because of the lack of large labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Joachim Ott , Zuowen Wang , Shih-Chii Liu

Direct methods for event-based visual odometry solve the mapping and camera pose tracking sub-problems by establishing implicit data association in a way that the generative model of events is exploited. The main bottlenecks faced by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Yi Zhou

Event cameras are a bio-inspired class of sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel intensity changes. Under fixed illumination conditions in static or low-motion scenes, rigidly mounted event cameras are unable to generate any events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Vincenzo Polizzi , Stephen Yang , Quentin Clark , Jonathan Kelly , Igor Gilitschenski , David B. Lindell

We present a method for estimating dense continuous-time optical flow from event data. Traditional dense optical flow methods compute the pixel displacement between two images. Due to missing information, these approaches cannot recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mathias Gehrig , Manasi Muglikar , Davide Scaramuzza

Event stream-based Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an emerging research direction that offers a compelling solution to the instability of conventional visible-light cameras under challenging conditions such as low illumination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiao Wang , Xingxing Xiong , Jinfeng Gao , Xufeng Lou , Bo Jiang , Si-bao Chen , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian

The current event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that respond to brightness changes in the scene asynchronously and independently for every pixel, and transmit these changes as ternary event streams. Event cameras have several benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Eero Lehtonen , Tuomo Komulainen , Ari Paasio , Mika Laiho

Event camera, a novel neuromorphic vision sensor, records data with high temporal resolution and wide dynamic range, offering new possibilities for accurate visual representation in challenging scenarios. However, event data is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Lin Zhu , Ruonan Liu , Xiao Wang , Lizhi Wang , Hua Huang

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. These cameras do not suffer from motion blur and have a very high dynamic range, which enables them to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Antoni Rosinol Vidal , Henri Rebecq , Timo Horstschaefer , Davide Scaramuzza