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This paper presents a new method for anomaly detection in automated systems with time and compute sensitive requirements, such as autonomous driving, with unparalleled efficiency. As systems like autonomous driving become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Andrew Gao , Jun Liu

Event cameras capture the motion of intensity gradients (edges) in the image plane in the form of rapid asynchronous events. When accumulated in 2D histograms, these events depict overlays of the edges in motion, consequently obscuring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Pritam P. Karmokar , Quan H. Nguyen , William J. Beksi

Compared to conventional cameras, event cameras provide a high dynamic range and low latency, offering greater robustness to rapid motion and challenging lighting conditions. Although the potential of event cameras for visual place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Therese Joseph , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that respond to per-pixel brightness changes in the form of asynchronous and sparse "events". Recently, pattern recognition algorithms, such as learning-based methods, have made significant progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Nico Messikommer , Daniel Gehrig , Antonio Loquercio , Davide Scaramuzza

State-of-the-art frame interpolation methods generate intermediate frames by inferring object motions in the image from consecutive key-frames. In the absence of additional information, first-order approximations, i.e. optical flow, must be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Stepan Tulyakov , Daniel Gehrig , Stamatios Georgoulis , Julius Erbach , Mathias Gehrig , Yuanyou Li , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras can capture pixel-level illumination changes with very high temporal resolution and dynamic range. They have received increasing research interest due to their robustness to lighting conditions and motion blur. Two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Raul Tapia , Augusto Gómez Eguíluz , José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios , Anibal Ollero

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

There is growing interest in object detection in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous robots and vehicles. To enable such innovative systems, we need faster object detection. In this work, we investigate the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Ting-Wu Chin , Chia-Lin Yu , Matthew Halpern , Hasan Genc , Shiao-Li Tsao , Vijay Janapa Reddi

Recognition of the surrounding environment using a camera is an important technology in Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems and Autonomous Driving, and recognition technology is often solved by machine learning approaches such as deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Genya Ogawa , Toru Saito , Noriyuki Aoi

Self-driving vehicles have the potential to reduce accidents and fatalities on the road. Many production vehicles already come equipped with basic self-driving capabilities, but have trouble following lanes in adverse lighting and weather…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Michael Khalfin , Jack Volgren , Matthew Jones , Luke LeGoullon , Joshua Siegel , Chan-Jin Chung

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

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that mimic retinas to asynchronously report per-pixel intensity changes rather than outputting an actual intensity image at regular intervals. This new paradigm of image sensor offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yusuke Sekikawa , Kosuke Hara , Hideo Saito

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 sensors have recently drawn increasing interest in robotic perception due to their lower latency, higher dynamic range, and lower bandwidth requirements compared to standard CMOS-based imagers. These properties make them ideal…

In recent years, there has been a growing demand for improved autonomy for in-orbit operations such as rendezvous, docking, and proximity maneuvers, leading to increased interest in employing Deep Learning-based Spacecraft Pose Estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Arunkumar Rathinam , Haytam Qadadri , Djamila Aouada

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors that detect light changes asynchronously for each pixel. They are increasingly used in fields like computer vision and robotics because of several advantages over traditional frame-based cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Andreas Ziegler , David Joseph , Thomas Gossard , Emil Moldovan , Andreas Zell

Event cameras are emerging imaging technology that offers advantages over conventional frame-based imaging sensors in dynamic range and sensing speed. Complementing the rich texture and color perception of traditional image frames, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Peiqi Duan , Boyu Li , Yixin Yang , Hanyue Lou , Minggui Teng , Yi Ma , Boxin Shi

Event cameras are novel sensors that output brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous events instead of intensity frames. Compared to conventional image sensors, they offer significant advantages: high temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

Event-based cameras are biologically inspired sensors that output events, i.e., asynchronous pixel-wise brightness changes in the scene. Their high dynamic range and temporal resolution of a microsecond makes them more reliable than…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Antea Hadviger , Igor Cvišić , Ivan Marković , Sacha Vražić , Ivan Petrović

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