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Event cameras are novel sensors that report brightness changes in the form of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They have significant advantages over conventional cameras: high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Henri Rebecq , René Ranftl , Vladlen Koltun , Davide Scaramuzza

Most existing RGB-based trackers target low frame rate benchmarks of around 30 frames per second. This setting restricts the tracker's functionality in the real world, especially for fast motion. Event-based cameras as bioinspired sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiqing Zhang , Yuanchen Wang , Wenxi Liu , Meng Li , Jinpeng Bai , Baocai Yin , Xin Yang

Recording fast motion in a high FPS (frame-per-second) requires expensive high-speed cameras. As an alternative, interpolating low-FPS videos from commodity cameras has attracted significant attention. If only low-FPS videos are available,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Weihua He , Kaichao You , Zhendong Qiao , Xu Jia , Ziyang Zhang , Wenhui Wang , Huchuan Lu , Yaoyuan Wang , Jianxing Liao

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

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

Human pose estimation focuses on predicting body keypoints to analyze human motion. Currently, most pose estimation tasks rely on conventional RGB cameras. In contrast, event cameras provide high temporal resolution and low latency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoxian Zhou , Chuanzhi Xu , Langyi Chen , Pengfei Ye , Haodong Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Qiang Qu

Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiazhang Wang , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

The event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor. When the brightness change exceeds the preset threshold, the sensor generates events asynchronously. The number of valid events directly affects the performance of event-based tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xijie Xiang , Lin Zhu , Jianing Li , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Stereo camera systems play an important role in robotics applications to perceive the 3D world. However, conventional cameras have drawbacks such as low dynamic range, motion blur and latency due to the underlying frame-based mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Ziwei Wang , Liyuan Pan , Yonhon Ng , Zheyu Zhuang , Robert Mahony

Polarization-based vision has gained increasing attention for providing richer physical cues beyond RGB images. While achieving single-shot capture is highly desirable for practical applications, existing Division-of-Focal-Plane (DoFP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shuangfan Zhou , Chu Zhou , Heng Guo , Youwei Lyu , Boxin Shi , Zhanyu Ma , Imari Sato

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture intensity changes asynchronously with distinct advantages, such as high temporal resolution. Existing methods for event-based object/action recognition predominantly sample and convert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiazhou Zhou , Kanghao Chen , Lei Zhang , Lin Wang

Structure from Motion (SfM) and visual localization in indoor texture-less scenes and industrial scenarios present prevalent yet challenging research topics. Existing SfM methods designed for natural scenes typically yield low accuracy or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Kai Chen , Lei Zhu , Jun Ma

Event camera is an emerging imaging sensor for capturing dynamics of moving objects as events, which motivates our work in estimating 3D human pose and shape from the event signals. Events, on the other hand, have their unique challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Shihao Zou , Chuan Guo , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Pengyu Wang , Xiaoqin Hu , Shoushun Chen , Minglun Gong , Li Cheng

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

Event cameras are a paradigm shift in camera technology. Instead of full frames, the sensor captures a sparse set of events caused by intensity changes. Since only the changes are transferred, those cameras are able to capture quick…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Christian Reinbacher , Gottfried Munda , Thomas Pock

Temporal Video Frame Synthesis (TVFS) aims at synthesizing novel frames at timestamps different from existing frames, which has wide applications in video codec, editing and analysis. In this paper, we propose a high framerate TVFS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Zihao W. Wang , Weixin Jiang , Kuan He , Boxin Shi , Aggelos Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

Fast and accurate depth sensing has long been a significant research challenge. Event camera, as a device that quickly responds to intensity changes, provides a new solution for structured light (SL) systems. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xingyu Lu , Lei Sun , Diyang Gu , Kaiwei Wang

Object pose tracking is one of the pivotal technologies in multimedia, attracting ever-growing attention in recent years. Existing methods employing traditional cameras encounter numerous challenges such as motion blur, sensor noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zibin Liu , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Shunkun Liang , Zhenbao Yu , Qifeng Yu

The stomatopod (mantis shrimp) visual system has recently provided a blueprint for the design of paradigm-shifting polarization and multispectral imaging sensors, enabling solutions to challenging medical and remote sensing problems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Germain Haessig , Damien Joubert , Justin Haque , Yingkai Chen , Moritz Milde , Tobi Delbruck , Viktor Gruev

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that measure per-pixel brightness differences asynchronously. Recovering brightness from events is appealing since the reconstructed images inherit the high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zelin Zhang , Anthony Yezzi , Guillermo Gallego