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Accurate depth estimation under adverse night conditions has practical impact and applications, such as on autonomous driving and rescue robots. In this work, we studied monocular depth estimation at night time in which various adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Jianing Qiu , Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Benny Lo

Compared to regular cameras, Dynamic Vision Sensors or Event Cameras can output compact visual data based on a change in the intensity in each pixel location asynchronously. In this paper, we study the application of current image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Masoud Dayani Najafabadi , Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh

Event cameras are bio-inspired dynamic vision sensors that respond to changes in image intensity with a high temporal resolution, high dynamic range and low latency. These sensor characteristics are ideally suited to enable visual target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ziwei Wang , Yonhon Ng , Jack Henderson , Robert Mahony

Compared to conventional cameras, event cameras provide a high dynamic range and low latency, offering greater robustness to rapid motion and challenging lighting conditions. Although the potential of event cameras for visual place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Therese Joseph , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

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

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in realizing methodologies to integrate more and more computation at the level of the image sensor. The rising trend has seen an increased research interest in developing novel event…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Md Jubaer Hossain Pantho , Joel Mandebi Mbongue , Pankaj Bhowmik , Christophe Bobda

Event-based cameras are dynamic vision sensors that provide asynchronous measurements of changes in per-pixel brightness at a microsecond level. This makes them significantly faster than conventional frame-based cameras, and an appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sai Vemprala , Sami Mian , Ashish Kapoor

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

Event cameras or dynamic vision sensors (DVS) record asynchronous response to brightness changes instead of conventional intensity frames, and feature ultra-high sensitivity at low bandwidth. The new mechanism demonstrates great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Bo Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

The advent of event-based cameras, with their low latency, high dynamic range, and reduced power consumption, marked a turning point in machine perception and robotic vision. In~particular, the combination of these neuromorphic sensors with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Nafiseh Jabbari Tofighi , Maxime Robic , Fabio Morbidi , Pascal Vasseur

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-based cameras can measure intensity changes (called `{\it events}') with microsecond accuracy under high-speed motion and challenging lighting conditions. With the active pixel sensor (APS), the event camera allows simultaneous output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Liyuan Pan , Cedric Scheerlinck , Xin Yu , Richard Hartley , Miaomiao Liu , Yuchao Dai

This paper considers matching images of low-light scenes, aiming to widen the frontier of SfM and visual SLAM applications. Recent image sensors can record the brightness of scenes with more than eight-bit precision, available in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Wenzheng Song , Masanori Suganuma , Xing Liu , Noriyuki Shimobayashi , Daisuke Maruta , Takayuki Okatani

Modern high dynamic range (HDR) imaging pipelines align and fuse multiple low dynamic range (LDR) images captured at different exposure times. While these methods work well in static scenes, dynamic scenes remain a challenge since the LDR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Nico Messikommer , Stamatios Georgoulis , Daniel Gehrig , Stepan Tulyakov , Julius Erbach , Alfredo Bochicchio , Yuanyou Li , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras do not produce images, but rather a continuous flow of events, which encode changes of illumination for each pixel independently and asynchronously. While they output temporally rich information, they lack any depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Keypoint detection and tracking in traditional image frames are often compromised by image quality issues such as motion blur and extreme lighting conditions. Event cameras offer potential solutions to these challenges by virtue of their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiangyuan Wang , Kuangyi Chen , Wen Yang , Lei Yu , Yannan Xing , Huai Yu

Event cameras are a bio-inspired class of sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel intensity changes. Under fixed illumination conditions in static or low-motion scenes, rigidly mounted event cameras are unable to generate any events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Vincenzo Polizzi , Stephen Yang , Quentin Clark , Jonathan Kelly , Igor Gilitschenski , David B. Lindell

Different from visible cameras which record intensity images frame by frame, the biologically inspired event camera produces a stream of asynchronous and sparse events with much lower latency. In practice, visible cameras can better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xiao Wang , Jianing Li , Lin Zhu , Zhipeng Zhang , Zhe Chen , Xin Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

Poor image quality in low light images may result in a reduced number of feature matching between images. In this paper, we investigate the performance of feature extraction algorithms in low light environments. To find an optimal setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kyung-Soo Kim

Current smart glasses equipped with RGB cameras struggle to perceive the environment in low-light and high-speed motion scenarios due to motion blur and the limited dynamic range of frame cameras. Additionally, capturing dense images with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Carl Brander , Giovanni Cioffi , Nico Messikommer , Davide Scaramuzza