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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

In cinema, large camera lenses create beautiful shallow depth of field (DOF), but make focusing difficult and expensive. Accurate cinema focus usually relies on a script and a person to control focus in realtime. Casual videographers often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Xuaner Zhang , Kevin Matzen , Vivien Nguyen , Dillon Yao , You Zhang , Ren Ng

Current state-of-the-art object detection algorithms still suffer the problem of imbalanced distribution of training data over object classes and background. Recent work introduced a new loss function called focal loss to mitigate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Michael Weber , Michael Fürst , J. Marius Zöllner

Predicting a potential collision with leading vehicles is an essential functionality of any autonomous/assisted driving system. One bottleneck of existing vision-based solutions is that their updating rate is limited to the frame rate of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jinghang Li , Bangyan Liao , Xiuyuan LU , Peidong Liu , Shaojie Shen , Yi Zhou

Event cameras also known as neuromorphic sensors are relatively a new technology with some privilege over the RGB cameras. The most important one is their difference in capturing the light changes in the environment, each pixel changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani , Waseem Shariff , Cian Ryan , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Assistive visual navigation systems for visually impaired individuals have become increasingly popular thanks to the rise of mobile computing. Most of these devices work by translating visual information into voice commands. In complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hao Wang , Jiayou Qin , Xiwen Chen , Ashish Bastola , John Suchanek , Zihao Gong , Abolfazl Razi

Estimating human pose using a front-facing egocentric camera is essential for applications such as sports motion analysis, VR/AR, and AI for wearable devices. However, many existing methods rely on RGB cameras and do not account for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wataru Ikeda , Masashi Hatano , Ryosei Hara , Mariko Isogawa

For distant iris recognition, a long focal length lens is generally used to ensure the resolution ofiris images, which reduces the depth of field and leads to potential defocus blur. To accommodate users at different distances, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Leyuan Wang , Kunbo Zhang , Yunlong Wang , Zhenan Sun

Event-based cameras (EBCs) are an attractive sensing modality for surveillance due to their reporting of pixel-level radiance changes with microsecond resolution and high dynamic range, enabling motion extraction while suppressing…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-18 Megan Birch , James Rick , Adrish Kar , Jason Zutty , Joseph L. Greene

Event cameras are novel sensors that report brightness changes in the form of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They have significant advantages over conventional cameras: high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Henri Rebecq , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun , Davide Scaramuzza

In contemporary imaging systems, achieving optimal auto-focus (AF) performance hinges on precise lens positioning. Extensive research has delved into refining algorithms for determining the ideal lens position across passive, active, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ali Karaoglu

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that asynchronously report intensity changes in microsecond resolution. DAVIS can capture high dynamics of a scene and simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Liyuan Pan , Miaomiao Liu , Richard Hartley

Autofocus (AF) methods are extensively used in biomicroscopy, for example to acquire timelapses, where the imaged objects tend to drift out of focus. AD algorithms determine an optimal distance by which to move the sample back into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-14 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

Event cameras promise a paradigm shift in vision sensing with their low latency, high dynamic range, and asynchronous nature of events. Unfortunately, the scarcity of high-quality labeled datasets hinders their widespread adoption in deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kaustav Chanda , Aayush Atul Verma , Arpitsinh Vaghela , Yezhou Yang , Bharatesh Chakravarthi

Event cameras are novel vision sensors that sample, in an asynchronous fashion, brightness increments with low latency and high temporal resolution. The resulting streams of events are of high value by themselves, especially for high speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 F. Paredes-Vallés , G. C. H. E. de Croon

This paper presents a new event-based method for detecting and tracking features from the output of an event-based camera. Unlike many tracking algorithms from the computer vision community, this process does not aim for particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Laurent Dardelet , Sio-Hoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

In frame-based vision, object detection faces substantial performance degradation under challenging conditions due to the limited sensing capability of conventional cameras. Event cameras output sparse and asynchronous events, providing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hu Cao , Zehua Zhang , Yan Xia , Xinyi Li , Jiahao Xia , Guang Chen , Alois Knoll

Event cameras capture changes of illumination in the observed scene rather than accumulating light to create images. Thus, they allow for applications under high-speed motion and complex lighting conditions, where traditional framebased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Inspired by the complementarity between conventional frame-based and bio-inspired event-based cameras, we propose a multi-modal based approach to fuse visual cues from the frame- and event-domain to enhance the single object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Yingkai Fu , Xiaopeng Wei , Baocai Yin , Bo Dong

Many cameras implement auto-focus functionality. However, they typically require the user to manually identify the location to be focused on. While such an approach works for temporally-sparse autofocusing functionality (e.g., photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Wolfgang Fuhl , Thiago Santini , Enkelejda Kasneci