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Photonic technologies offer great prospects for novel ultrafast, energy-efficient and hardware-friendly neuromorphic (brain-like) computing platforms. Moreover, neuromorphic photonic approaches based upon ubiquitous, technology-mature and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Dafydd Owen-Newns , Joshua Robertson , Matej Hejda , Antonio Hurtado

Neuromorphic data, recording frameless spike events, have attracted considerable attention for the spatiotemporal information components and the event-driven processing fashion. Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent a family of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Weihua He , YuJie Wu , Lei Deng , Guoqi Li , Haoyu Wang , Yang Tian , Wei Ding , Wenhui Wang , Yuan Xie

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gained prominence in the field of neuromorphic computing owing to their low energy consumption during feedforward inference on neuromorphic hardware. However, it remains an open challenge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Wenjie Wei , Malu Zhang , Jilin Zhang , Ammar Belatreche , Jibin Wu , Zijing Xu , Xuerui Qiu , Hong Chen , Yang Yang , Haizhou Li

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

This paper introduces a novel framework for robotic vision-based navigation that integrates Hybrid Neural Networks (HNNs) with Spiking Neural Network (SNN)-based filtering to enhance situational awareness for unmodeled obstacle detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Reza Ahmadvand , Sarah Safura Sharif , Yaser Mike Banad

Adverse weather conditions, particularly heavy snowfall, pose significant challenges to both human drivers and autonomous vehicles. Traditional image-based de-snowing methods often introduce hallucination artifacts as they rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Manasi Muglikar , Nico Messikommer , Marco Cannici , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras provide high temporal precision, low data rates, and high dynamic range visual perception, which are well-suited for optical flow estimation. While data-driven optical flow estimation has obtained great success in RGB cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yijin Li , Zhaoyang Huang , Shuo Chen , Xiaoyu Shi , Hongsheng Li , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), inspired by the brain, are characterized by minimal power consumption and swift inference capabilities on neuromorphic hardware, and have been widely applied to various visual perception tasks. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Chengjun Zhang , Yuhao Zhang , Jie Yang , Mohamad Sawan

We present an algorithm (SOFAS) to estimate the optical flow of events generated by a dynamic vision sensor (DVS). Where traditional cameras produce frames at a fixed rate, DVSs produce asynchronous events in response to intensity changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Timo Stoffregen , Lindsay Kleeman

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

Event-based cameras are inspired by the sparse and asynchronous spike representation of the biological visual system. However, processing the event data requires either using expensive feature descriptors to transform spikes into frames, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sangmin Yoo , Eric Yeu-Jer Lee , Ziyu Wang , Xinxin Wang , Wei D. Lu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), as an emerging biologically inspired computational model, demonstrate significant energy efficiency advantages due to their event-driven information processing mechanism. Compared to traditional Artificial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Changqing Xu , Buxuan Song , Yi Liu , Xinfang Liao , Wenbin Zheng , Yintang Yang

This paper presents a novel method for detecting scene changes from a pair of images with a difference of camera viewpoints using a dense optical flow based change detection network. In the case that camera poses of input images are fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Ken Sakurada , Weimin Wang , Nobuo Kawaguchi , Ryosuke Nakamura

Spiking Neural Networks are a recent and new neural network design approach that promises tremendous improvements in power efficiency, computation efficiency, and processing latency. They do so by using asynchronous spike-based data flow,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Sambit Mohapatra , Thomas Mesquida , Mona Hodaei , Senthil Yogamani , Heinrich Gotzig , Patrick Mader

Bio-inspired neuromorphic cameras asynchronously record pixel brightness changes and generate sparse event streams. They can capture dynamic scenes with little motion blur and more details in extreme illumination conditions. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Pei Zhang , Chutian Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a popular spatio-temporal computing paradigm for complex vision tasks. Recently proposed SNN training algorithms have significantly reduced the number of time steps (down to 1) for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Gourav Datta , Zeyu Liu , Anni Li , Peter A. Beerel

Contrary to conventional frame-based imaging, event-based vision (EBV) or dynamic vision sensing (DVS) asynchronously records binary signals of intensity changes for given pixels with microsecond resolution. The present work explores the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-22 Christian Willert , Joachim Klinner

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) compute using sparse communication and are attracting increased attention as a more energy-efficient alternative to traditional Artificial Neural Networks~(ANNs). While standard ANNs are stateless, spiking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Balázs Mészáros , James C. Knight , Thomas Nowotny

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

Autonomous Driving (AD) related features represent important elements for the next generation of mobile robots and autonomous vehicles focused on increasingly intelligent, autonomous, and interconnected systems. The applications involving…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Alberto Viale , Alberto Marchisio , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique