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Rapid and low power computation of optical flow (OF) is potentially useful in robotics. The dynamic vision sensor (DVS) event camera produces quick and sparse output, and has high dynamic range, but conventional OF algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Min Liu , Tobi Delbruck

Tracking the position and orientation of objects in space (i.e., in 6-DoF) in real time is a fundamental problem in robotics for environment interaction. It becomes more challenging when objects move at high-speed due to frame rate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zhichao Li , Arren Glover , Chiara Bartolozzi , Lorenzo Natale

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

Modern optical flow methods make use of salient scene feature points detected and matched within the scene as a basis for sparse-to-dense optical flow estimation. Current feature detectors however either give sparse, non uniform point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Felix Stephenson , Toby Breckon , Ioannis Katramados

The broad scope of obstacle avoidance has led to many kinds of computer vision-based approaches. Despite its popularity, it is not a solved problem. Traditional computer vision techniques using cameras and depth sensors often focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Despite the dynamic development of computer vision algorithms, the implementation of perception and control systems for autonomous vehicles such as drones and self-driving cars still poses many challenges. A video stream captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Piotr Wzorek , Tomasz Kryjak

Event cameras, by virtue of their working principle, directly encode motion within a scene. Many learning-based and model-based methods exist that estimate event-based optical flow, however the temporally dense yet spatially sparse nature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Pritam P. Karmokar , William J. Beksi

Significant attention has been attracted to deep learning-based depth estimates. Dynamic objects become the most hard problems in inter-frame-supervised depth estimates due to the uncertainty in adjacent frames. Thus, integrating optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen

Event cameras respond to changes in log-brightness at the millisecond level, making them ideal for optical flow estimation. However, existing datasets from event cameras provide only low frame rate ground truth for optical flow, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yaozu Ye , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Ze Wang , Xiaoting Yin , Lei Sun , Yaonan Wang , Kaiwei Wang

Current optical flow and point-tracking methods rely heavily on synthetic datasets. Event cameras are novel vision sensors with advantages in challenging visual conditions, but state-of-the-art frame-based methods cannot be easily adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Friedhelm Hamann , Ziyun Wang , Ioannis Asmanis , Kenneth Chaney , Guillermo Gallego , Kostas Daniilidis

Event cameras have shown promise in vision applications like optical flow estimation and stereo matching, with many specialized architectures leveraging the asynchronous and sparse nature of event data. However, existing works only focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Pengjie Zhang , Lin Zhu , Xiao Wang , Lizhi Wang , Wanxuan Lu , Hua Huang

Previous dominant methods for scene flow estimation focus mainly on input from two consecutive frames, neglecting valuable information in the temporal domain. While recent trends shift towards multi-frame reasoning, they suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yushan Zhang , Yixi Cai , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

High-dynamic scene optical flow is a challenging task, which suffers spatial blur and temporal discontinuous motion due to large displacement in frame imaging, thus deteriorating the spatiotemporal feature of optical flow. Typically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hanyu Zhou , Haonan Wang , Haoyue Liu , Yuxing Duan , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Optical flow is a fundamental technique for motion estimation, widely applied in video stabilization, interpolation, and object tracking. Traditional optical flow estimation methods rely on restrictive assumptions like brightness constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu-Hsi Chen , Chin-Tien Wu

Accurate fall detection for the assistance of older people is crucial to reduce incidents of deaths or injuries due to falls. Meanwhile, a vision-based fall detection system has shown some significant results to detect falls. Still,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Sagar Chhetri , Abeer Alsadoon , Thair Al Dala in , P. W. C. Prasad , Tarik A. Rashid , Angelika Maag

In this paper, we explore the problem of event-based meshflow estimation, a novel task that involves predicting a spatially smooth sparse motion field from event cameras. To start, we review the state-of-the-art in event-based flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xinglong Luo , Ao Luo , Kunming Luo , Zhengning Wang , Ping Tan , Bing Zeng , Shuaicheng Liu

Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

Event cameras have the ability to record continuous and detailed trajectories of objects with high temporal resolution, thereby providing intuitive motion cues for optical flow estimation. Nevertheless, most existing learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Haotian Liu , Guang Chen , Sanqing Qu , Yanping Zhang , Zhijun Li , Alois Knoll , Changjun Jiang

Event cameras have recently gained significant traction since they open up new avenues for low-latency and low-power solutions to complex computer vision problems. To unlock these solutions, it is necessary to develop algorithms that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Federico Paredes-Vallés , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

We propose DistSurf-OF, a novel optical flow method for neuromorphic cameras. Neuromorphic cameras (or event detection cameras) are an emerging sensor modality that makes use of dynamic vision sensors (DVS) to report asynchronously the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Mohammed Almatrafi , Raymond Baldwin , Kiyoharu Aizawa , Keigo Hirakawa