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Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. They offer significant advantages over standard cameras, namely a very high dynamic range, no motion blur, and a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Elias Mueggler , Guillermo Gallego , Henri Rebecq , Davide Scaramuzza

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

A useful application of event sensing is visual odometry, especially in settings that require high-temporal resolution. The state-of-the-art method of contrast maximisation recovers the motion from a batch of events by maximising the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Daqi Liu , Alvaro Parra , Tat-Jun Chin

We present a method that leverages the complementarity of event cameras and standard cameras to track visual features with low-latency. Event cameras are novel sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes, called "events". They offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Daniel Gehrig , Henri Rebecq , Guillermo Gallego , Davide Scaramuzza

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

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 cameras offering high dynamic range and low latency have emerged as disruptive technologies in imaging. Despite growing research on leveraging these benefits for different imaging tasks, a comprehensive study of recently advances and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yunfan Lu , Xiaogang Xu , Pengteng Li , Yusheng Wang , Yi Cui , Huizai Yao , Hui Xiong

Event cameras are bio-inspired visual sensors that capture pixel-wise intensity changes and output asynchronous event streams. They show great potential over conventional cameras to handle challenging scenarios in robotics and computer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Shuang Guo , Guillermo Gallego

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, often referred to as dynamic vision sensors, are groundbreaking sensors capable of capturing changes in light intensity asynchronously, offering exceptional temporal resolution and energy efficiency. These attributes make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Mira Adra , Simone Melcarne , Nelida Mirabet-Herranz , Jean-Luc Dugelay

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors that detect light changes asynchronously for each pixel. They are increasingly used in fields like computer vision and robotics because of several advantages over traditional frame-based cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Andreas Ziegler , David Joseph , Thomas Gossard , Emil Moldovan , Andreas Zell

Understanding human movement and city dynamics has always been challenging. From traditional methods of manually observing the city's inhabitant, to using cameras, to now using sensors and more complex technology, the field of urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jack Brady , Andrew Dailey , Kristen Schang , Zo Vic Shong

The current event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that respond to brightness changes in the scene asynchronously and independently for every pixel, and transmit these changes as ternary event streams. Event cameras have several benefits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Eero Lehtonen , Tuomo Komulainen , Ari Paasio , Mika Laiho

Background: Large engineering structures, such as space launch towers and suspension bridges, are subjected to extreme forces that cause high-speed 3D deformation and compromise safety. These structures typically operate under extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Banglei Guan , Yifei Bian , Zibin Liu , Haoyang Li , Xuanyu Bai , Taihang Lei , Bin Li , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

Event cameras encode visual information with high temporal precision, low data-rate, and high-dynamic range. Thanks to these characteristics, event cameras are particularly suited for scenarios with high motion, challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Etienne Perot , Pierre de Tournemire , Davide Nitti , Jonathan Masci , Amos Sironi

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

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

Event cameras are bioinspired sensors with reaction times in the order of microseconds. This property makes them appealing for use in highly-dynamic computer vision applications. In this work,we explore the limits of this sensing technology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 William Chamorro , Juan Andrade-Cetto , Joan Solà

Event cameras are novel sensors that report 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 temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Henri Rebecq , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun , Davide Scaramuzza

Contrast maximization (CMax) techniques are widely used in event-based vision systems to estimate the motion parameters of the camera and generate high-contrast images. However, these techniques are noise-intolerance and suffer from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Sami Arja , Alexandre Marcireau , Richard L. Balthazor , Matthew G. McHarg , Saeed Afshar , Gregory Cohen