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Standard frame-based cameras that sample light intensity frames are heavily impacted by motion blur for high-speed motion and fail to perceive scene accurately when the dynamic range is high. Event-based cameras, on the other hand, overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Chankyu Lee , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Optical flow estimation is a crucial subfield of computer vision, serving as a foundation for video tasks. However, the real-world robustness is limited by animated synthetic datasets for training. This introduces domain gaps when applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yingping Liang , Ying Fu , Yutao Hu , Wenqi Shao , Jiaming Liu , Debing Zhang

Event-based cameras are raising interest within the computer vision community. These sensors operate with asynchronous pixels, emitting events, or "spikes", when the luminance change at a given pixel since the last event surpasses a certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Javier Cuadrado , Ulysse Rançon , Benoît Cottereau , Francisco Barranco , Timothée Masquelier

Obtaining the ground truth labels from a video is challenging since the manual annotation of pixel-wise flow labels is prohibitively expensive and laborious. Besides, existing approaches try to adapt the trained model on synthetic datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yunhui Han , Kunming Luo , Ao Luo , Jiangyu Liu , Haoqiang Fan , Guiming Luo , Shuaicheng Liu

Recently, the RGB images and point clouds fusion methods have been proposed to jointly estimate 2D optical flow and 3D scene flow. However, as both conventional RGB cameras and LiDAR sensors adopt a frame-based data acquisition mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zhexiong Wan , Yuxin Mao , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

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

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

Estimating continuous optical flow is a fundamental yet challenging problem in dynamic visual perception. Event-based cameras, with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, capture brightness changes asynchronously, offering a unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rui Hu , Song Wu , Wen Yang , Jinjian Wu

Efficiently selecting an appropriate spike stream data length to extract precise information is the key to the spike vision tasks. To address this issue, we propose a dynamic timing representation for spike streams. Based on multi-layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Lujie Xia , Ziluo Ding , Rui Zhao , Jiyuan Zhang , Lei Ma , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang , Ruiqin Xiong

The performance of optical flow algorithms greatly depends on the specifics of the content and the application for which it is used. Existing and well established optical flow datasets are limited to rather particular contents from which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Gregory Schröder , Tobias Senst , Erik Bochinski , Thomas Sikora

Occlusions between consecutive frames have long posed a significant challenge in optical flow estimation. The inherent ambiguity introduced by occlusions directly violates the brightness constancy constraint and considerably hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shangkun Sun , Jiaming Liu , Thomas H. Li , Huaxia Li , Guoqing Liu , Wei Gao

Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

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

Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Haoyue Liu , Luxin Yan

Event-based vision sensors offer asynchronous, high-temporal-resolution measurements that are attractive for low-latency robotic perception, but many event-based motion estimation methods are computationally intensive and difficult to map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Arianna Alonso Bizzi , Fernando Cladera , C. J. Taylor

Different from visible cameras which record intensity images frame by frame, the biologically inspired event camera produces a stream of asynchronous and sparse events with much lower latency. In practice, visible cameras can better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xiao Wang , Jianing Li , Lin Zhu , Zhipeng Zhang , Zhe Chen , Xin Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

We present a method for estimating dense continuous-time optical flow from event data. Traditional dense optical flow methods compute the pixel displacement between two images. Due to missing information, these approaches cannot recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mathias Gehrig , Manasi Muglikar , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras or dynamic vision sensors (DVS) record asynchronous response to brightness changes instead of conventional intensity frames, and feature ultra-high sensitivity at low bandwidth. The new mechanism demonstrates great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Bo Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

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

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