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Key-point-based scene understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving applications. At the same time, optical flow plays an important role in many vision tasks. However, due to the implicit bias of equal attention on all points, classic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhonghua Yi , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Qi Jiang , Yaozu Ye , Ze Wang , Huajian Ni , Kaiwei Wang

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture the per-pixel intensity changes asynchronously and produce event streams encoding the time, pixel position, and polarity (sign) of the intensity changes. Event cameras possess a myriad of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Xu Zheng , Yexin Liu , Yunfan Lu , Tongyan Hua , Tianbo Pan , Weiming Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Lin Wang

Time-to-Collision (TTC) estimation lies in the core of the forward collision warning (FCW) functionality, which is key to all Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems. Although the success of solutions using frame-based cameras (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Kaizhen Sun , Jinghang Li , Kuan Dai , Bangyan Liao , Wei Xiong , Yi Zhou

Event cameras offer unparalleled advantages for real-time perception in dynamic environments, thanks to the microsecond-level temporal resolution and asynchronous operation. Existing event detectors, however, are limited by fixed-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dongyue Lu , Lingdong Kong , Gim Hee Lee , Camille Simon Chane , Wei Tsang Ooi

Event cameras output asynchronous events to represent intensity changes with a high temporal resolution, even under extreme lighting conditions. Currently, most of the existing works use a single contrast threshold to estimate the intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ziwei Wang , Yonhon Ng , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

In recent years, dynamic vision sensors (DVS), also known as event-based cameras or neuromorphic sensors, have seen increased use due to various advantages over conventional frame-based cameras. Using principles inspired by the retina, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Nicholas F. Y. Chen

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

Most of the artificial lights fluctuate in response to the grid's alternating current and exhibit subtle variations in terms of both intensity and spectrum, providing the potential to estimate the Electric Network Frequency (ENF) from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Lexuan Xu , Guang Hua , Haijian Zhang , Lei Yu , Ning Qiao

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

Identifying independently moving objects is an essential task for dynamic scene understanding. However, traditional cameras used in dynamic scenes may suffer from motion blur or exposure artifacts due to their sampling principle. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yi Zhou , Guillermo Gallego , Xiuyuan Lu , Siqi Liu , Shaojie Shen

Event cameras are rapidly emerging as powerful vision sensors for 3D reconstruction, uniquely capable of asynchronously capturing per-pixel brightness changes. Compared to traditional frame-based cameras, event cameras produce sparse yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Chuanzhi Xu , Haoxian Zhou , Langyi Chen , Haodong Chen , Zeke Zexi Hu , Zhicheng Lu , Ying Zhou , Vera Chung , Qiang Qu , Weidong Cai

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. These cameras do not suffer from motion blur and have a very high dynamic range, which enables them to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Guillermo Gallego , Jon E. A. Lund , Elias Mueggler , Henri Rebecq , Tobi Delbruck , Davide Scaramuzza

As the ubiquity of smart mobile devices continues to rise, Optical Camera Communication systems have gained more attention as a solution for efficient and private data streaming. This system utilizes optical cameras to receive data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Hang Su , Ling Gao , Tao Liu , Laurent Kneip

Event-based cameras (ECs) are bio-inspired sensors that asynchronously report brightness changes for each pixel. Due to their high dynamic range, pixel bandwidth, temporal resolution, low power consumption, and computational simplicity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Seyed Ehsan Marjani Bajestani , Giovanni Beltrame

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

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

Recently, the emerging bio-inspired event cameras have demonstrated potentials for a wide range of robotic applications in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose a novel fast and asynchronous event-based corner detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Ruoxiang Li , Dianxi Shi , Yongjun Zhang , Kaiyue Li , Ruihao Li

Event-based cameras measure intensity changes (called `events') with microsecond accuracy under high-speed motion and challenging lighting conditions. With the `active pixel sensor' (APS), the `Dynamic and Active-pixel Vision Sensor'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Liyuan Pan , Richard Hartley , Cedric Scheerlinck , Miaomiao Liu , Xin Yu , Yuchao Dai

Event cameras trigger events asynchronously and independently upon a sufficient change of the logarithmic brightness level. The neuromorphic sensor has several advantages over standard cameras including low latency, absence of motion blur,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Peng Xin , Xu Wanting , Yang Jiaqi , Kneip Laurent

Event cameras are a paradigm shift in camera technology. Instead of full frames, the sensor captures a sparse set of events caused by intensity changes. Since only the changes are transferred, those cameras are able to capture quick…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Christian Reinbacher , Gottfried Munda , Thomas Pock