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This paper presents a real-time method to detect and track multiple mobile ground robots using event cameras. The method uses density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) to detect the robots and a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Himanshu Patel , Craig Iaboni , Deepan Lobo , Ji-won Choi , Pramod Abichandani

In this article, we propose a novel LiDAR and event camera fusion modality for subterranean (SubT) environments for fast and precise object and human detection in a wide variety of adverse lighting conditions, such as low or no light,…

Vision-based localization is a cost-effective and thus attractive solution for many intelligent mobile platforms. However, its accuracy and especially robustness still suffer from low illumination conditions, illumination changes, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yi-Fan Zuo , Wanting Xu , Xia Wang , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

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

We present a novel approach for hand-object action recognition that leverages 2D point tracks as an additional motion cue. While most existing methods rely on RGB appearance, human pose estimation, or their combination, our work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Dennis Holzmann , Sven Wachsmuth

Tracking the position and orientation of objects in space (i.e., in 6-DoF) in real time is a fundamental problem in robotics for environment interaction. It becomes more challenging when objects move at high-speed due to frame rate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zhichao Li , Arren Glover , Chiara Bartolozzi , Lorenzo Natale

Event camera shows great potential in 3D hand pose estimation, especially addressing the challenges of fast motion and high dynamic range in a low-power way. However, due to the asynchronous differential imaging mechanism, it is challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jianping Jiang , Jiahe Li , Baowen Zhang , Xiaoming Deng , Boxin Shi

We present an approach for real-time, robust and accurate hand pose estimation from moving egocentric RGB-D cameras in cluttered real environments. Existing methods typically fail for hand-object interactions in cluttered scenes imaged from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Franziska Mueller , Dushyant Mehta , Oleksandr Sotnychenko , Srinath Sridhar , Dan Casas , Christian Theobalt

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. They offer significant advantages over standard cameras, namely a very high dynamic range, no motion blur, and a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Elias Mueggler , Guillermo Gallego , Henri Rebecq , Davide Scaramuzza

Hand pose tracking is essential for advancing applications in human-computer interaction. Current approaches, such as vision-based systems and wearable devices, face limitations in portability, usability, and practicality. We present a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yingjing Xiao , Zhichao Huang , Junbin Ren , Haichuan Song , Yang Gao , Yuting Bai , Zhanpeng Jin

Event camera is an emerging bio-inspired vision sensors that report per-pixel brightness changes asynchronously. It holds noticeable advantage of high dynamic range, high speed response, and low power budget that enable it to best capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhanpeng Shao , Wen Zhou , Wuzhen Wang , Jianyu Yang , Youfu Li

Visual object tracking under challenging conditions of motion and light can be hindered by the capabilities of conventional cameras, prone to producing images with motion blur. Event cameras are novel sensors suited to robustly perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues

This paper proposes a process that uses two cameras to obtain three-dimensional (3D) information of a target object for human tracking. Results of human detection and tracking from two cameras are integrated to obtain the 3D information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Shinya Matsubara , Akihiko Honda , Yonghoon Ji , Kazunori Umeda

Visual reconstruction of fast non-rigid object deformations over time is a challenge for conventional frame-based cameras. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for reconstructing such deformations using measurements from event-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yuxuan Xue , Haolong Li , Stefan Leutenegger , Jörg Stückler

Because of their high temporal resolution, increased resilience to motion blur, and very sparse output, event cameras have been shown to be ideal for low-latency and low-bandwidth feature tracking, even in challenging scenarios. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Nico Messikommer , Carter Fang , Mathias Gehrig , Giovanni Cioffi , Davide Scaramuzza

This work introduces a robot navigation controller that combines event cameras and other sensors with reinforcement learning to enable real-time human-centered navigation and obstacle avoidance. Unlike conventional image-based controllers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar , Rodrigo Verschae

Our paper proposes a direct sparse visual odometry method that combines event and RGB-D data to estimate the pose of agile-legged robots during dynamic locomotion and acrobatic behaviors. Event cameras offer high temporal resolution and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Shifan Zhu , Zhipeng Tang , Michael Yang , Erik Learned-Miller , Donghyun Kim

Human Pose Estimation (HPE) based on RGB images has experienced a rapid development benefiting from deep learning. However, event-based HPE has not been fully studied, which remains great potential for applications in extreme scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jiaan Chen , Hao Shi , Yaozu Ye , Kailun Yang , Lei Sun , Kaiwei Wang

Hand motion capture has been an active research topic in recent years, following the success of full-body pose tracking. Despite similarities, hand tracking proves to be more challenging, characterized by a higher dimensionality, severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Dimitrios Tzionas , Abhilash Srikantha , Pablo Aponte , Juergen Gall

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. These cameras do not suffer from motion blur and have a very high dynamic range, which enables them to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Guillermo Gallego , Jon E. A. Lund , Elias Mueggler , Henri Rebecq , Tobi Delbruck , Davide Scaramuzza