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The high frame rate is a critical requirement for capturing fast human motions. In this setting, existing markerless image-based methods are constrained by the lighting requirement, the high data bandwidth and the consequent high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Lan Xu , Weipeng Xu , Vladislav Golyanik , Marc Habermann , Lu Fang , Christian Theobalt

Given 2D point correspondences between an image pair, inferring the camera motion is a fundamental issue in the computer vision community. The existing works generally set out from the epipolar constraint and estimate the essential matrix,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Guangyang Zeng , Qingcheng Zeng , Xinghan Li , Biqiang Mu , Jiming Chen , Ling Shi , Junfeng Wu

State-of-the-art machine-learning methods for event cameras treat events as dense representations and process them with conventional deep neural networks. Thus, they fail to maintain the sparsity and asynchronous nature of event data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

The event camera, benefiting from its high dynamic range and low latency, provides performance gain for low-light image enhancement. Unlike frame-based cameras, it records intensity changes with extremely high temporal resolution, capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Chunyan She , Fujun Han , Chengyu Fang , Shukai Duan , Lidan Wang

Event cameras are neuromorphically inspired sensors that sparsely and asynchronously report brightness changes. Their unique characteristics of high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption make them well-suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Haitao Meng , Chonghao Zhong , Sheng Tang , Lian JunJia , Wenwei Lin , Zhenshan Bing , Yi Chang , Gang Chen , Alois Knoll

Event-based cameras are ideal for line-based motion estimation, since they predominantly respond to edges in the scene. However, accurately determining the camera displacement based on events continues to be an open problem. This is because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ling Gao , Hang Su , Daniel Gehrig , Marco Cannici , Davide Scaramuzza , Laurent Kneip

Aerial surveillance demands rapid and precise detection of moving objects in dynamic environments. Event cameras, which draw inspiration from biological vision systems, present a promising alternative to frame-based sensors due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sami Arja , Alexandre Marcireau , Saeed Afshar , Bharath Ramesh , Gregory Cohen

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

In this work, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised learning for event cameras that learns motion information from only the event stream. In particular, we propose an input representation of the events in the form of a discretized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

Unlike standard cameras that send intensity images at a constant frame rate, event-driven cameras asynchronously report pixel-level brightness changes, offering low latency and high temporal resolution (both in the order of micro-seconds).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Valentina Vasco , Arren Glover , Elias Mueggler , Davide Scaramuzza , Lorenzo Natale , Chiara Bartolozzi

Unwanted camera occlusions, such as debris, dust, rain-drops, and snow, can severely degrade the performance of computer-vision systems. Dynamic occlusions are particularly challenging because of the continuously changing pattern. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rong Zou , Manasi Muglikar , Nico Messikommer , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras deliver visual information characterized by a high dynamic range and high temporal resolution, offering significant advantages in estimating optical flow for complex lighting conditions and fast-moving objects. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gangwei Xu , Haotong Lin , Zhaoxing Zhang , Hongcheng Luo , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yang

We focus on a very challenging task: imaging at nighttime dynamic scenes. Most previous methods rely on the low-light enhancement of a conventional RGB camera. However, they would inevitably face a dilemma between the long exposure time of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Haoyue Liu , Shihan Peng , Lin Zhu , Yi Chang , Hanyu Zhou , Luxin Yan

Event-based cameras are popular for tracking fast-moving objects due to their high temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for tracking event blobs using raw events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Ziwei Wang , Timothy Molloy , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

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

Event or Neuromorphic cameras are novel biologically inspired sensors that record data based on the change in light intensity at each pixel asynchronously. They have a temporal resolution of microseconds. This is useful for scenes with fast…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Harbir Antil , David Sayre

Neuromorphic cameras, also known as event-based cameras, can detect changes in the environmental brightness asynchronously and independently for each pixel. They output the brightness changes, i.e., events, as 3-D (2-D pixel coordinates +…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Shimpei Harada , Junya Hara , Hiroshi Higashi , Yuichi Tanaka

Event cameras have recently shown promising capabilities in instantaneous motion estimation due to their robustness to low light and fast motions. However, computing wide-baseline correspondence between two arbitrary views remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ruijun Zhang , Hang Su , Kostas Daniilidis , Ziyun Wang

The cameras in modern gaze-tracking systems suffer from fundamental bandwidth and power limitations, constraining data acquisition speed to 300 Hz realistically. This obstructs the use of mobile eye trackers to perform, e.g., low latency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Anastasios N. Angelopoulos , Julien N. P. Martel , Amit P. S. Kohli , Jorg Conradt , Gordon Wetzstein

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