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This paper introduces a robust framework for motion segmentation and egomotion estimation using event-based normal flow, tailored specifically for neuromorphic vision sensors. In contrast to traditional methods that rely heavily on optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhiyuan Hua , Dehao Yuan , Cornelia Fermüller

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

We propose to incorporate feature correlation and sequential processing into dense optical flow estimation from event cameras. Modern frame-based optical flow methods heavily rely on matching costs computed from feature correlation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mathias Gehrig , Mario Millhäusler , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

The neuromorphic event cameras, which capture the optical changes of a scene, have drawn increasing attention due to their high speed and low power consumption. However, the event data are noisy, sparse, and nonuniform in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Chang Liu , Xiaojuan Qi , Edmund Lam , Ngai Wong

In autonomous driving, relying solely on frame-based cameras can lead to inaccuracies caused by factors like long exposure times, high-speed motion, and challenging lighting conditions. To address these issues, we introduce a bio-inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hu Cao , Jiong Liu , Xingzhuo Yan , Rui Song , Yan Xia , Walter Zimmer , Guang Chen , Alois Knoll

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

The development of aerial autonomy has enabled aerial robots to fly agilely in complex environments. However, dodging fast-moving objects in flight remains a challenge, limiting the further application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Botao He , Haojia Li , Siyuan Wu , Dong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Qianli Dong , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

In this work, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised learning for event cameras that learns motion information from only the event stream. In particular, we propose an input representation of the events in the form of a discretized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

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

Event cameras, inspired by biological vision, are asynchronous sensors that detect changes in brightness, offering notable advantages in environments characterized by high-speed motion, low lighting, or wide dynamic range. These distinctive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jiaqiang Zhang , Xianjia Yu , Ha Sier , Haizhou Zhang , Tomi Westerlund

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 neuromorphically inspired sensors that sparsely and asynchronously report brightness changes. Their unique characteristics of high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption make them well-suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Haitao Meng , Chonghao Zhong , Sheng Tang , Lian JunJia , Wenwei Lin , Zhenshan Bing , Yi Chang , Gang Chen , Alois Knoll

Event sensors output a stream of asynchronous brightness changes (called ``events'') at a very high temporal rate. Previous works on recovering the lost intensity information from the event sensor data have heavily relied on the event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Prasan A Shedligeri , Kaushik Mitra

Event cameras are emerging vision sensors whose noise is challenging to characterize. Existing denoising methods for event cameras are often designed in isolation and thus consider other tasks, such as motion estimation, separately (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

This paper presents EROAM, a novel event-based rotational odometry and mapping system that achieves real-time, accurate camera rotation estimation. Unlike existing approaches that rely on event generation models or contrast maximization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Wanli Xing , Shijie Lin , Linhan Yang , Zeqing Zhang , Yanjun Du , Maolin Lei , Yipeng Pan , Chen Wang , Jia Pan

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

The estimation of optical flow and 6-DoF ego-motion, two fundamental tasks in 3D vision, has typically been addressed independently. For neuromorphic vision (e.g., event cameras), however, the lack of robust data association makes solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Wenpu Li , Bangyan Liao , Yi Zhou , Qi Xu , Pian Wan , Peidong Liu

Event cameras capture changes of illumination in the observed scene rather than accumulating light to create images. Thus, they allow for applications under high-speed motion and complex lighting conditions, where traditional framebased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Recent learning-based methods for event-based optical flow estimation utilize cost volumes for pixel matching but suffer from redundant computations and limited scalability to higher resolutions for flow refinement. In this work, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Daikun Liu , Lei Cheng , Teng Wang , changyin Sun

Predicting a potential collision with leading vehicles is an essential functionality of any autonomous/assisted driving system. One bottleneck of existing vision-based solutions is that their updating rate is limited to the frame rate of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jinghang Li , Bangyan Liao , Xiuyuan LU , Peidong Liu , Shaojie Shen , Yi Zhou