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Event-based vision sensors offer asynchronous, high-temporal-resolution measurements that are attractive for low-latency robotic perception, but many event-based motion estimation methods are computationally intensive and difficult to map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Arianna Alonso Bizzi , Fernando Cladera , C. J. Taylor

Large-scale structures suffer high-frequency deformations due to complex loads. However, harsh lighting conditions and high equipment costs limit measurement methods based on traditional high-speed cameras. This paper proposes a method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yifei Bian , Banglei Guan , Zibin Liu , Ang Su , Shiyao Zhu , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

After 2001 the upgraded ep collider HERA will provide an about five times higher luminosity for the two experiments H1 and ZEUS. In order to cope with the expected higher event rates the H1 collaboration is building a track based trigger…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-17 A. Baird , E. Elsen , Y. H. Fleming , M. Kolander , S. Kolya , D. Meer , D. Mercer , J. Naumann , P. R. Newman , D. Sankey , A. Schoening , H. -C. Schultz-Coulon , Ch. Wissing

This study introduces a novel approach to enhance the spatial-temporal resolution of time-event pixels based on luminance changes captured by event cameras. These cameras present unique challenges due to their low resolution and the sparse,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Waseem Shariff , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Time to Digital Converters (TDCs) are very common devices in particles physics experiments. A lot of "off-the-shelf" TDCs can be employed but the necessity of a custom DAta acQuisition (DAQ) system makes the TDCs implemented on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-07 A. Balla , M. Beretta , P. Ciambrone , M. Gatta , F. Gonnella , L. Iafolla , M. Mascolo , R. Messi , D. Moricciani , D. Riondino

The development of the advanced Radio Frequency Timer of electrons is described. It is based on a helical deflector, which performs circular or elliptical sweeps of keV electrons, by means of 500 MHz radio frequency field. By converting a…

The increasing complexity of the recent photonic experiments challenges developing efficient multi-channel coincidence counting systems with high-level functionality. Here, we report a coincidence unit able to count detection events ranging…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-29 Josef Hloušek , Jan Grygar , Michal Dudka , Miroslav Ježek

Future experiments of nuclear and particle physics are moving towards the high luminosity regime, in order to access suppressed processes like rare B decays or exotic charmonium resonances. In this scenario, high rate capability is a key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-18 M. Cardinali , O. Corell , M. I. Ferretti Bondy , M. Hoek , W. Lauth , C. Rosner , C. Sfienti , M. Thiel

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

Non-uniform performance and power consumption across the processing elements (PEs) of heterogeneous SoCs increase the computation complexity of the task scheduling problem compared to homogeneous architectures. Latency of a software-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alexander Fusco , Sahil Hassan , Joshua Mack , Ali Akoglu

A high-resolution time-to-digital converter (TDC) based on wave union (four-edge WU A), dual-sampling, and sub-TDL methods is proposed and implemented in a 16-nm Xilinx UltraScale+ field-programmable gate array (FPGA). We combine WU and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-02 Yu Wang , Wujun Xie , Haochang Chen , David Day-Uei Li

A readout electronic with high time and energy resolution performance is designed for the SDD (Silicon Drift Detector) signals readout, which is aimed for X-ray pulsar based navigation (XNAV). For time measurement, the input signal is fed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-10 Er-Lei Chen , Chang-Qing Feng , Chun-Feng Ye , Shu-Bin Liu , Dong-Dong Jin , Jian Lian , Hui-Jun Hu

Detectors based on pixels with timing capabilities are gaining increasing importance in the last years. Next-to-come high-energy physics experiments at colliders requires the use of time information in tracking, due to the increasing levels…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-25 Adriano Lai , Gian Matteo Cossu

Detection Transformers (DETR) are increasingly adopted in autonomous vehicle (AV) perception systems due to their superior accuracy over convolutional networks. However, concurrently executing multiple DETR tasks presents significant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Woojin Shin , Donghwa Kang , Byeongyun Park , Brent Byunghoon Kang , Jinkyu Lee , Hyeongboo Baek

This paper proposes a high-precision time measurement method based on digital frequency-domain phase-fitting (DFPF) by using the digitized nuclear pulses. The averaging effect inherent in the frequency-domain cross-correlation and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-17 Jianjun Wang , Zhaohui Bu , Zhao Wang , Jincheng Xu , Liguo Zhou , Qibin Zheng

This study presents a novel field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) design suitable for high timing resolution applications, utilizing two new techniques. First, a cross-detection (CD) method is introduced…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-15 Daehee Lee , Minseok Yi , Sun Il Kwon

We have developed a new laser-based time calibration system for the MEG II timing counter dedicated to timing measurement of positrons. The detector requires precise timing alignment between $\sim\,$500 scintillation counters. In this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-16 M. Nakao , G. Boca , P. W. Cattaneo , M. De Gerone , F. Gatti , M. Nishimura , W. Ootani , M. Rossella , Y. Uchiyama , M. Usami , K. Yoshida

With increasing interest in high-speed imaging should come an increased interest in the response times of our scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) detectors. Previous works have previously highlighted and contrasted performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Tiarnan Mullarkey , Matthew Geever , Jonathan J. P. Peters , Ian Griffiths , Peter D. Nellist , Lewys Jones

Obtaining highly accurate depth from stereo images in real time has many applications across computer vision and robotics, but in some contexts, upper bounds on power consumption constrain the feasible hardware to embedded platforms such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Oscar Rahnama , Tommaso Cavallari , Stuart Golodetz , Alessio Tonioni , Thomas Joy , Luigi Di Stefano , Simon Walker , Philip H. S. Torr

Event-driven sensors, which produce data only when there is a change in the input signal, are increasingly used in applications that require low-latency and low-power real-time sensing, such as robotics and edge devices. To fully achieve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Hugh Greatorex , Michele Mastella , Ole Richter , Madison Cotteret , Willian Soares Girão , Ella Janotte , Elisabetta Chicca