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Event cameras, which feature pixels that independently respond to changes in brightness, are becoming increasingly popular in high-speed applications due to their lower latency, reduced bandwidth requirements, and enhanced dynamic range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ziyuan Qu , Zihao Zou , Vivek Boominathan , Praneeth Chakravarthula , Adithya Pediredla

Event-based vision sensors, such as the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), are ideally suited for real-time motion analysis. The unique properties encompassed in the readings of such sensors provide high temporal resolution, superior sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Anton Mitrokhin , Cornelia Fermuller , Chethan Parameshwara , Yiannis Aloimonos

Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods…

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

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

As neuromorphic sensors, event cameras asynchronously record changes in brightness as streams of sparse events with the advantages of high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Reconstructing intensity images from events is a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Weilun Li , Lei Sun , Ruixi Gao , Qi Jiang , Yuqin Ma , Kaiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Tracking any point based on image frames is constrained by frame rates, leading to instability in high-speed scenarios and limited generalization in real-world applications. To overcome these limitations, we propose an image-event fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jiaxiong Liu , Bo Wang , Zhen Tan , Jinpu Zhang , Hui Shen , Dewen Hu

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) requires precise time-of-flight measurements of the transmitted/received waveform to produce well-focused imagery. It is not uncommon for errors in these measurements to be present resulting in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Isaac D. Gerg , Vishal Monga

Models based on diverse attention mechanisms have recently shined in tasks related to acoustic event classification (AEC). Among them, self-attention is often used in audio-only tasks to help the model recognize different acoustic events.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yuanbo Hou , Dick Botteldooren

Event camera has significant advantages in capturing dynamic scene information while being prone to noise interference, particularly in challenging conditions like low threshold and low illumination. However, most existing research focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yuxing Duan , Shihan Peng , Lin Zhu , Wei Zhang , Yi Chang , Sheng Zhong , Luxin Yan

Dynamic vision sensor event cameras produce a variable data rate stream of brightness change events. Event production at the pixel level is controlled by threshold, bandwidth, and refractory period bias current parameter settings. Biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Tobi Delbruck , Rui Graca , Marcin Paluch

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors whose pixels work independently from each other and respond asynchronously to brightness changes, with microsecond resolution. Their advantages make it possible to tackle challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yi Zhou , Guillermo Gallego , Shaojie Shen

Neuromorphic "event" cameras, designed to mimic the human vision system with asynchronous sensing, unlock a new realm of high-speed and high dynamic range applications. However, researchers often either revert to a framed representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Andrew C. Freeman , Montek Singh , Ketan Mayer-Patel

Event cameras are novel, bio-inspired visual sensors, whose pixels output asynchronous and independent timestamped spikes at local intensity changes, called 'events'. Event cameras offer advantages over conventional frame-based cameras in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Cedric Scheerlinck , Henri Rebecq , Timo Stoffregen , Nick Barnes , Robert Mahony , Davide Scaramuzza

Using an ego-centric camera to do localization and tracking is highly needed for urban navigation and indoor assistive system when GPS is not available or not accurate enough. The traditional hand-designed feature tracking and estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Liang Yang , Hao Jiang , Jizhong Xiao , Zhouyuan Huo

Precise Event Spotting (PES) in sports videos requires frame-level recognition of fine-grained actions from single-camera footage. Existing PES models typically incorporate lightweight temporal modules such as the Gate Shift Module (GSM) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hao Xu , Xinyu Wei , Sam Wells , Sunil Aryal

We introduce EDS, a direct monocular visual odometry using events and frames. Our algorithm leverages the event generation model to track the camera motion in the blind time between frames. The method formulates a direct probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Guillermo Gallego , Davide Scaramuzza

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

Face liveness detection has been extensively studied using RGB cameras, achieving strong performance under controlled conditions but often failing to generalize across sensors and attack scenarios. In this work, we explore event cameras as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Nicolas Mastropasqua , Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova , Rodrigo Verschae , Daniel Acevedo , Pablo Negri

Once an academic venture, autonomous driving has received unparalleled corporate funding in the last decade. Still, the operating conditions of current autonomous cars are mostly restricted to ideal scenarios. This means that driving in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Mathias Gehrig , Willem Aarents , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Neuromorphic, or event, cameras represent a transformation in the classical approach to visual sensing encodes detected instantaneous per-pixel illumination changes into an asynchronous stream of event packets. Their novelty compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Claudio Cimarelli , Jose Andres Millan-Romera , Holger Voos , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez