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Being inspired by the biological eye, event camera is a novel asynchronous technology that pose a paradigm shift in acquisition of visual information. This paradigm enables event cameras to capture pixel-size fast motions much more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 David El-Chai Ben-Ezra , Ron Arad , Ayelet Padowicz , Israel Tugendhaft

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

This paper presents a new event-based method for detecting and tracking features from the output of an event-based camera. Unlike many tracking algorithms from the computer vision community, this process does not aim for particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Laurent Dardelet , Sio-Hoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture the per-pixel intensity changes asynchronously and produce event streams encoding the time, pixel position, and polarity (sign) of the intensity changes. Event cameras possess a myriad of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Xu Zheng , Yexin Liu , Yunfan Lu , Tongyan Hua , Tianbo Pan , Weiming Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Lin Wang

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that perform well in challenging illumination conditions and have high temporal resolution. However, their concept is fundamentally different from traditional frame-based cameras. The pixels of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Xin Peng , Ling Gao , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

Event cameras capture scene changes asynchronously on a per-pixel basis, enabling extremely high temporal resolution. However, this advantage comes at the cost of high bandwidth, memory, and computational demands. To address this, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Andreu Girbau-Xalabarder , Jun Nagata , Shinichi Sumiyoshi , Ricard Marsal , Shin'ichi Satoh

Event cameras, inspired by biological vision systems, provide a natural and data efficient representation of visual information. Visual information is acquired in the form of events that are triggered by local brightness changes. Each pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Cheng Gu , Erik Learned-Miller , Daniel Sheldon , Guillermo Gallego , Pia Bideau

Real-time applications for autonomous operations depend largely on fast and robust vision-based localization systems. Since image processing tasks require processing large amounts of data, the computational resources often limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Gerald Ebmer , Adam Loch , Minh Nhat Vu , Germain Haessig , Roberto Mecca , Markus Vincze , Christian Hartl-Nesic , Andreas Kugi

Many cameras implement auto-focus functionality. However, they typically require the user to manually identify the location to be focused on. While such an approach works for temporally-sparse autofocusing functionality (e.g., photo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Wolfgang Fuhl , Thiago Santini , Enkelejda Kasneci

Event-based cameras are dynamic vision sensors that provide asynchronous measurements of changes in per-pixel brightness at a microsecond level. This makes them significantly faster than conventional frame-based cameras, and an appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sai Vemprala , Sami Mian , Ashish Kapoor

With the increasing complexity of mobile device applications, these devices are evolving toward high agility. This shift imposes new demands on mobile sensing, particularly in achieving high-accuracy and low-latency. Event-based vision has…

Event cameras provide a natural and data efficient representation of visual information, motivating novel computational strategies towards extracting visual information. Inspired by the biological vision system, we propose a behavior driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nan Cai , Pia Bideau

Camera calibration is an important prerequisite towards the solution of 3D computer vision problems. Traditional methods rely on static images of a calibration pattern. This raises interesting challenges towards the practical usage of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Kun Huang , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

Precise Event Spotting aims to localize fast-paced actions or events in videos with high temporal precision, a key task for applications in sports analytics, robotics, and autonomous systems. Existing methods typically process all frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Artur Xarles , Sergio Escalera , Thomas B. Moeslund , Albert Clapés

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

Event cameras output asynchronous events to represent intensity changes with a high temporal resolution, even under extreme lighting conditions. Currently, most of the existing works use a single contrast threshold to estimate the intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Ziwei Wang , Yonhon Ng , Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

Understanding and mitigating flicker effects caused by rapid variations in light intensity is critical for enhancing the performance of event cameras in diverse environments. This paper introduces an innovative autonomous mechanism for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani , Waseem Shariff , Cian Ryan , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

With the growing adoption of autonomous driving, the advancement of sensor technology is crucial for ensuring safety and reliable operation. Sensor fusion techniques that combine multiple sensors such as LiDAR, radar, and cameras have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Masataka Kobayashi , Shintaro Shiba , Quan Kong , Norimasa Kobori , Tsukasa Shimizu , Shan Lu , Takaya Yamazato

Object pose tracking is a fundamental and essential task for robotics to perform tasks in the home and industrial settings. The most commonly used sensors to do so are RGB-D cameras, which can hit limitations in highly dynamic environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhichao Li , Chiara Bartolozzi , Lorenzo Natale , Arren Glover

Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods…

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