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Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle visual tasks in challenging scenarios. However, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sheng Zhong , Zhongyang Ren , Xiya Zhu , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermuller , Yi Zhou

Event cameras have recently gained significant traction since they open up new avenues for low-latency and low-power solutions to complex computer vision problems. To unlock these solutions, it is necessary to develop algorithms that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Federico Paredes-Vallés , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Responsive and accurate facial expression recognition is crucial to human-robot interaction for daily service robots. Nowadays, event cameras are becoming more widely adopted as they surpass RGB cameras in capturing facial expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhe Wang , Qijin Song , Yucen Peng , Weibang Bai

Event cameras are novel sensors that output brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They offer significant advantages with respect to conventional cameras: high dynamic range (HDR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Daniel Gehrig , Mathias Gehrig , Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras rely on motion to obtain information about scene appearance. This means that appearance and motion are inherently linked: either both are present and recorded in the event data, or neither is captured. Previous works treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuang Guo , Friedhelm Hamann , Guillermo Gallego

Simulating event streams from 3D scenes has become a common practice in event-based vision research, as it meets the demand for large-scale, high temporal frequency data without setting up expensive hardware devices or undertaking extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenyang Li , Xiaoyang Bai , Jinfan Lu , Pengfei Shen , Edmund Y. Lam , Yifan Peng

Significant progress has been made for estimating optical flow using deep neural networks. Advanced deep models achieve accurate flow estimation often with a considerable computation complexity and time-consuming training processes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lingtong Kong , Jie Yang

Recent work has shown that optical flow estimation can be formulated as a supervised learning task and can be successfully solved with convolutional networks. Training of the so-called FlowNet was enabled by a large synthetically generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Nikolaus Mayer , Eddy Ilg , Philip Häusser , Philipp Fischer , Daniel Cremers , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

Event cameras encode visual information with high temporal precision, low data-rate, and high-dynamic range. Thanks to these characteristics, event cameras are particularly suited for scenarios with high motion, challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Etienne Perot , Pierre de Tournemire , Davide Nitti , Jonathan Masci , Amos Sironi

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

Event cameras provide high temporal precision, low data rates, and high dynamic range visual perception, which are well-suited for optical flow estimation. While data-driven optical flow estimation has obtained great success in RGB cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yijin Li , Zhaoyang Huang , Shuo Chen , Xiaoyu Shi , Hongsheng Li , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

3D object detection is essential for autonomous systems, enabling precise localization and dimension estimation. While LiDAR and RGB cameras are widely used, their fixed frame rates create perception gaps in high-speed scenarios. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jae-Young Kang , Hoonhee Cho , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture brightness change of every pixel in an asynchronous manner. Compared with frame-based sensors, event cameras have microsecond-level latency and high dynamic range, hence showing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Dongsheng Wang , Xu Jia , Yang Zhang , Xinyu Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Ziyang Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Inspired by frame-based methods, state-of-the-art event-based optical flow networks rely on the explicit construction of correlation volumes, which are expensive to compute and store, rendering them unsuitable for robotic applications with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yilun Wu , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Capsule networks (CapsNets) have recently shown promise to excel in most computer vision tasks, especially pertaining to scene understanding. In this paper, we explore CapsNet's capabilities in optical flow estimation, a task at which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Vinoj Jayasundara , Debaditya Roy , Basura Fernando

Despite the success of neural networks in computer vision tasks, digital 'neurons' are a very loose approximation of biological neurons. Today's learning approaches are designed to function on digital devices with digital data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

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

Event cameras are vision sensors that record asynchronous streams of per-pixel brightness changes, referred to as "events". They have appealing advantages over frame-based cameras for computer vision, including high temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Daniel Gehrig , Antonio Loquercio , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras, by virtue of their working principle, directly encode motion within a scene. Many learning-based and model-based methods exist that estimate event-based optical flow, however the temporally dense yet spatially sparse nature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi