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Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors which measure per pixel brightness changes. They offer numerous benefits over traditional, frame-based cameras, including low latency, high dynamic range, high temporal resolution and low power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Simon Klenk , Jason Chui , Nikolaus Demmel , Daniel Cremers

Event cameras, inspired by biological vision systems, provide a natural and data efficient representation of visual information. Visual information is acquired in the form of events that are triggered by local brightness changes. Each pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Cheng Gu , Erik Learned-Miller , Daniel Sheldon , Guillermo Gallego , Pia Bideau

The polarization of light conveys crucial information about the spatial ordering and optical properties of a specimen. However, precise polarization measurement in challenging conditions, including constrained spaces, low light levels, and…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Martin Bielak , Dominik Vašinka , Miroslav Ježek

Sensing light's polarization and wavefront direction enables surface curvature assessment, material identification, shadow differentiation, and improved image quality in turbid environments. Traditional polarization cameras utilize multiple…

This paper focuses on a new problem of estimating human pose and shape from single polarization images. Polarization camera is known to be able to capture the polarization of reflected lights that preserves rich geometric cues of an object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shihao Zou , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Yiming Qian , Chuan Guo , Li Cheng

Event cameras, i.e., the Dynamic and Active-pixel Vision Sensor (DAVIS) ones, capture the intensity changes in the scene and generates a stream of events in an asynchronous fashion. The output rate of such cameras can reach up to 10 million…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Sherif A. S. Mohamed , Jawad N. Yasin , Mohammad-Hashem Haghbayan , Antonio Miele , Jukka Heikkonen , Hannu Tenhunen , Juha Plosila

Event-based cameras are new type vision sensors whose pixels work independently and respond asynchronously to brightness change with microsecond resolution, instead of providing standard intensity frames. Compared with traditional cameras,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Kunfeng Wang , Kaichun Zhao , Zheng You

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level intensity changes in microsecond accuracy with a high dynamic range and low power consumption. Despite these advantages, event cameras cannot be directly applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jinjin Gu , Jinan Zhou , Ringo Sai Wo Chu , Yan Chen , Jiawei Zhang , Xuanye Cheng , Song Zhang , Jimmy S. Ren

Event-cameras have emerged as a revolutionary technology with a high temporal resolution that far surpasses standard active pixel cameras. This technology draws biological inspiration from photoreceptors and the initial retinal synapse.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Victoria Clerico , Shay Snyder , Arya Lohia , Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Gregory Schwartz , Akhilesh Jaiswal , Maryam Parsa

Event sensors output a stream of asynchronous brightness changes (called ``events'') at a very high temporal rate. Previous works on recovering the lost intensity information from the event sensor data have heavily relied on the event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Prasan A Shedligeri , Kaushik Mitra

Polarimetric imaging is one of the most effective techniques for high-contrast imaging and characterization of circumstellar environments. These environments can be characterized through direct-imaging polarimetry at near-infrared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Laurence Denneulin , Maud Langlois , Éric Thiébaut , Nelly Pustelnik

A neuromorphic camera is an image sensor that emulates the human eyes capturing only changes in local brightness levels. They are widely known as event cameras, silicon retinas or dynamic vision sensors (DVS). DVS records asynchronous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Sally Khaidem , Mansi Sharma , Abhipraay Nevatia

Event camera is an emerging bio-inspired vision sensors that report per-pixel brightness changes asynchronously. It holds noticeable advantage of high dynamic range, high speed response, and low power budget that enable it to best capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhanpeng Shao , Wen Zhou , Wuzhen Wang , Jianyu Yang , Youfu Li

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

To obtain full Stokes spectra in multi-wavelength windows simultaneously, we developed a new spectro-polarimeter on the Domeless Solar Telescope at Hida Observatory. The new polarimeter consists of a 60 cm aperture vacuum telescope on an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Tetsu Anan , Yu Wei Huang , Yoshikazu Nakatani , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Satoru Ueno , Goichi Kimura , Shota Ninomiya , Sanetaka Okada , Naoki Kaneda

NICMOS cameras 1 and 2 each carry a set of three polarizing elements to provide high sensitivity observations of linearly polarized light. The polarizers are bandpass limited and provide diffraction-limited imaging in camera 1 at 0.8 -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Hines , G. Schneider

Event cameras capture sparse, asynchronous brightness changes which offer high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, low power consumption, and sparse data output. These advantages make them ideal for Space Situational Awareness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sami Arja , Alexandre Marcireau , Nicholas Owen Ralph , Saeed Afshar , Gregory Cohen

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-based cameras are biologically inspired sensors that output asynchronous pixel-wise brightness changes in the scene called events. They have a high dynamic range and temporal resolution of a microsecond, opposed to standard cameras…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Antea Hadviger , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

Unlike conventional cameras which capture video at a fixed frame rate, Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) record only changes in pixel intensity values. The output of DVS is simply a stream of discrete ON/OFF events based on the polarity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Stefanie Anna Baby , Bimal Vinod , Chaitanya Chinni , Kaushik Mitra