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The high frame rate is a critical requirement for capturing fast human motions. In this setting, existing markerless image-based methods are constrained by the lighting requirement, the high data bandwidth and the consequent high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Lan Xu , Weipeng Xu , Vladislav Golyanik , Marc Habermann , Lu Fang , Christian Theobalt

Small flying robots can perform landing maneuvers using bio-inspired optical flow by maintaining a constant divergence. However, optical flow is typically estimated from frame sequences recorded by standard miniature cameras. This requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Bas J. Pijnacker Hordijk , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Object detection plays a critical role in autonomous driving, where accurately and efficiently detecting objects in fast-moving scenes is crucial. Traditional frame-based cameras face challenges in balancing latency and bandwidth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Bingquan Zhou , Jie Jiang

Robotic vision plays a key role for perceiving the environment in grasping applications. However, the conventional framed-based robotic vision, suffering from motion blur and low sampling rate, may not meet the automation needs of evolving…

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that perform well in HDR conditions and have high temporal resolution. However, different from traditional frame-based cameras, event cameras measure asynchronous pixel-level brightness changes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xin Peng , Yifu Wang , Ling Gao , Laurent Kneip

Optical flow is a crucial component of the feature space for early visual processing of dynamic scenes especially in new applications such as self-driving vehicles, drones and autonomous robots. The dynamic vision sensors are well suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Himanshu Akolkar , SioHoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

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

In contrast to traditional cameras, whose pixels have a common exposure time, event-based cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors whose pixels work independently and asynchronously output intensity changes (called "events"), with microsecond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Timo Stoffregen , Guillermo Gallego , Tom Drummond , Lindsay Kleeman , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras are promising devices for lowlatency tracking and high-dynamic range imaging. In this paper,we propose a novel approach for 6 degree-of-freedom (6-DoF)object motion tracking that combines measurements of eventand frame-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Haolong Li , Joerg Stueckler

The diffusion of drones presents significant security and safety challenges. Traditional surveillance systems, particularly conventional frame-based cameras, struggle to reliably detect these targets due to their small size, high agility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gabriele Magrini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Luca Cultrera , Federico Becattini , Pietro Pala

State-of-the-art machine-learning methods for event cameras treat events as dense representations and process them with conventional deep neural networks. Thus, they fail to maintain the sparsity and asynchronous nature of event data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras (low latency, high dynamic range, low power, etc.). Optical flow estimation methods that work on packets of events trade off speed for accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

Crowd counting aims to count the number of instantaneous people in a crowded space, and many promising solutions have been proposed for single image crowd counting. With the ubiquitous video capture devices in public safety field, how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xingjiao Wu , Baohan Xu , Yingbin Zheng , Hao Ye , Jing Yang , Liang He

Event cameras are novel vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes ("events") instead of traditional video frames. These asynchronous sensors offer several advantages over traditional cameras, such as, high temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Guillermo Gallego , Mathias Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras provide asynchronous, data-driven measurements of local temporal contrast over a large dynamic range with extremely high temporal resolution. Conventional cameras capture low-frequency reference intensity information. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Cedric Scheerlinck , Nick Barnes , Robert Mahony

Monitoring aerial objects is crucial for security, wildlife conservation, and environmental studies. Traditional RGB-based approaches struggle with challenges such as scale variations, motion blur, and high-speed object movements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Gabriele Magrini , Federico Becattini , Giovanni Colombo , Pietro Pala

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that naturally capture the dynamics of a scene, filtering out redundant information. This paper presents a deep neural network approach that unlocks the potential of event cameras on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Ana I. Maqueda , Antonio Loquercio , Guillermo Gallego , Narciso Garcia , Davide Scaramuzza

Efficient crop detection via Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is critical for scaling precision agriculture, yet it remains challenging due to the small scale of targets and environmental variability. This paper addresses the detection of rice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Mohammad Sadegh Gholizadeh , Amir Arsalan Rezapour , Hamidreza Shayegh , Ehsan Pazouki

Event-based cameras are popular for tracking fast-moving objects due to their high temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for tracking event blobs using raw events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Ziwei Wang , Timothy Molloy , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

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