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Event cameras emit asynchronous brightness-change events where each pixel triggers an event when the last event exceeds a threshold, yielding a history-dependent measurement model. We address online maximum-likelihood identification of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Kazumune Hashimoto , Kazunobu Serizawa , Masako Kishida

Accurate measurement of shock wave motion parameters with high spatiotemporal resolution is essential for applications such as power field testing and damage assessment. However, significant challenges are posed by the fast, uneven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Taihang Lei , Banglei Guan , Minzu Liang , Pengju Sun , Jing Tao , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

We propose to incorporate feature correlation and sequential processing into dense optical flow estimation from event cameras. Modern frame-based optical flow methods heavily rely on matching costs computed from feature correlation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mathias Gehrig , Mario Millhäusler , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Camera calibration is an important prerequisite towards the solution of 3D computer vision problems. Traditional methods rely on static images of a calibration pattern. This raises interesting challenges towards the practical usage of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Kun Huang , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

In this paper, we propose a global method for estimating the motion of a camera which films a static scene. Our approach is direct, fast and robust, and deals with adjacent frames of a sequence. It is based on a quadratic approximation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-09-29 Claire Jonchery , Françoise Dibos , Georges Koepfler

Event cameras are novel vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes ("events") instead of traditional video frames. These asynchronous sensors offer several advantages over traditional cameras, such as, high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Guillermo Gallego , Mathias Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

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 high-speed maneuvering scenarios.…

Event-based cameras record an asynchronous stream of per-pixel brightness changes. As such, they have numerous advantages over the standard frame-based cameras, including high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and no motion blur. Due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Dimche Kostadinov , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras respond to changes in log-brightness at the millisecond level, making them ideal for optical flow estimation. However, existing datasets from event cameras provide only low frame rate ground truth for optical flow, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yaozu Ye , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Ze Wang , Xiaoting Yin , Lei Sun , Yaonan Wang , Kaiwei Wang

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

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

We present ContinuityCam, a novel approach to generate a continuous video from a single static RGB image and an event camera stream. Conventional cameras struggle with high-speed motion capture due to bandwidth and dynamic range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ziyun Wang , Friedhelm Hamann , Kenneth Chaney , Wen Jiang , Guillermo Gallego , Kostas Daniilidis

This paper introduces a framework of gesture recognition operating on the output of an event based camera using the computational resources of a mobile phone. We will introduce a new development around the concept of time-surfaces modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Jean-Matthieu Maro , Ryad Benosman

Event camera is a new type of sensor that is different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by an event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Kun Xiao , Pengju Li , Guohui Wang , Zhi Li , Yi Chen , Yongfeng Xie , Yuqiang Fang

Visual reconstruction of fast non-rigid object deformations over time is a challenge for conventional frame-based cameras. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for reconstructing such deformations using measurements from event-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yuxuan Xue , Haolong Li , Stefan Leutenegger , Jörg Stückler

Event cameras are novel sensors that report 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 temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Henri Rebecq , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun , Davide Scaramuzza

3D hand pose estimation from monocular videos is a long-standing and challenging problem, which is now seeing a strong upturn. In this work, we address it for the first time using a single event camera, i.e., an asynchronous vision sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Viktor Rudnev , Vladislav Golyanik , Jiayi Wang , Hans-Peter Seidel , Franziska Mueller , Mohamed Elgharib , Christian Theobalt

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

Event cameras can capture pixel-level illumination changes with very high temporal resolution and dynamic range. They have received increasing research interest due to their robustness to lighting conditions and motion blur. Two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Raul Tapia , Augusto Gómez Eguíluz , José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios , Anibal Ollero

Contrast maximization (CMax) is a framework that provides state-of-the-art results on several event-based computer vision tasks, such as ego-motion or optical flow estimation. However, it may suffer from a problem called event collapse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego