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Event cameras are novel sensors that output brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They offer significant advantages with respect to conventional cameras: high dynamic range (HDR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Daniel Gehrig , Mathias Gehrig , Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Davide Scaramuzza

We propose tokenization of events and present a tokenizer, Spiking Patches, specifically designed for event cameras. Given a stream of asynchronous and spatially sparse events, our goal is to discover an event representation that preserves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Christoffer Koo Øhrstrøm , Ronja Güldenring , Lazaros Nalpantidis

In this work, we propose a novel transformation for events from an event camera that is equivariant to optical flow under convolutions in the 3-D spatiotemporal domain. Events are generated by changes in the image, which are typically due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Ziyun Wang , Kostas Daniilidis

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that differ from conventional frame cameras: Instead of capturing images at a fixed rate, they asynchronously measure per-pixel brightness changes, and output a stream of events that encode the time,…

Despite the success of neural networks in computer vision tasks, digital 'neurons' are a very loose approximation of biological neurons. Today's learning approaches are designed to function on digital devices with digital data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Event cameras offer high temporal resolution and dynamic range with minimal motion blur, making them promising for robust object detection. While Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) on neuromorphic hardware are often considered for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Soikat Hasan Ahmed , Jan Finkbeiner , Emre Neftci

While Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in various computer vision applications, post-hoc explanations of their internal mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Vision Transformers extract visual information by representing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Junyi Wu , Bin Duan , Weitai Kang , Hao Tang , Yan Yan

Event cameras provide a number of benefits over traditional cameras, such as the ability to track incredibly fast motions, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. However, their application into computer vision problems, many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Ziyun Wang , Kaung Khant , Kostas Daniilidis

We present Recurrent Vision Transformers (RVTs), a novel backbone for object detection with event cameras. Event cameras provide visual information with sub-millisecond latency at a high-dynamic range and with strong robustness against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Mathias Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated outstanding Compressed Sensing (CS) performance compared to traditional, hand-crafted methods. However, they are broadly limited in terms of generalisability, inductive bias and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Marlon Bran Lorenzana , Craig Engstrom , Shekhar S. Chandra

Bio-inspired neuromorphic cameras asynchronously record pixel brightness changes and generate sparse event streams. They can capture dynamic scenes with little motion blur and more details in extreme illumination conditions. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Pei Zhang , Chutian Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

We present Token-UNet, adopting the TokenLearner and TokenFuser modules to encase Transformers into UNets. While Transformers have enabled global interactions among input elements in medical imaging, current computational challenges hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Louis Fabrice Tshimanga , Andrea Zanola , Federico Del Pup , Manfredo Atzori

Event-based cameras are neuromorphic sensors capable of efficiently encoding visual information in the form of sparse sequences of events. Being biologically inspired, they are commonly used to exploit some of the computational and power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Marco Cannici , Marco Ciccone , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in modeling sequential data, including event sequences, temporal point processes, and irregular time series. Recently, transformers have largely replaced recurrent networks in these tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ivan Karpukhin , Andrey Savchenko

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 attract researchers' attention due to their low power consumption, high dynamic range, and extremely high temporal resolution. Learning models on event-based object classification have recently achieved massive success by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yongjian Deng , Hao Chen , Hai Liu , Youfu Li

Previous studies on event camera sensing have demonstrated certain detection performance using dense event representations. However, the accumulated noise in such dense representations has received insufficient attention, which degrades the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yangjie Cui , Boyang Gao , Yiwei Zhang , Xin Dong , Jinwu Xiang , Daochun Li , Zhan Tu

High-speed vision sensing is essential for real-time perception in applications such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation. Traditional frame-based vision systems suffer from motion blur, high latency, and redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Riadul Islam , Joey Mulé , Dhandeep Challagundla , Shahmir Rizvi , Sean Carson

Event cameras are biologically inspired sensors that emit events asynchronously with remarkable temporal resolution, garnering significant attention from both industry and academia. Mainstream methods favor frame and voxel representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hongwei Ren , Fei Ma , Xiaopeng Lin , Yuetong Fang , Hongxiang Huang , Yulong Huang , Yue Zhou , Haotian Fu , Ziyi Yang , Fei Richard Yu , Bojun Cheng

We propose Token Turing Machines (TTM), a sequential, autoregressive Transformer model with memory for real-world sequential visual understanding. Our model is inspired by the seminal Neural Turing Machine, and has an external memory…