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Event cameras hold significant promise for high-temporal-resolution (HTR) motion estimation. However, estimating event-based HTR optical flow faces two key challenges: the absence of HTR ground-truth data and the intrinsic sparsity of event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Qianang Zhou , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Yongjian Deng , Youfu Li , Junlin Xiong

Event cameras attract researchers' attention due to their low power consumption, high dynamic range, and extremely high temporal resolution. Learning models on event-based object classification have recently achieved massive success by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Yongjian Deng , Hao Chen , Hai Liu , Youfu Li

Event cameras capture brightness changes asynchronously with microsecond resolution, yet existing optical flow methods fail to fully exploit this temporal continuity. Frame-based approaches impose artificial accumulation latency and suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gunwoo Jeon , Chaesong Park , Jongwoo Lim

Event cameras are vision sensors that record asynchronous streams of per-pixel brightness changes, referred to as "events". They have appealing advantages over frame-based cameras for computer vision, including high temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Daniel Gehrig , Antonio Loquercio , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , 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, with their high dynamic range (HDR) and low latency, offer a promising alternative for robust depth estimation in challenging environments. However, many event-based depth estimation approaches are constrained by small-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Sadiq Layi Macaulay , Nimet Kaygusuz , Simon Hadfield

As the use of neuromorphic, event-based vision sensors expands, the need for compression of their output streams has increased. While their operational principle ensures event streams are spatially sparse, the high temporal resolution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Daniel C. Stumpp , Himanshu Akolkar , Alan D. George , Ryad Benosman

Optical Flow (OF) is the movement pattern of pixels or edges that is caused in a visual scene by the relative motion between an agent and a scene. OF is used in a wide range of computer vision algorithms and robotics applications. While the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-25 Jonas Kühne , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Scene flow estimation is a foundational task for many robotic applications, including robust dynamic object detection, automatic labeling, and sensor synchronization. Two types of approaches to the problem have evolved: 1) Supervised and 2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 David T. Hoffmann , Syed Haseeb Raza , Hanqiu Jiang , Denis Tananaev , Steffen Klingenhoefer , Martin Meinke

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

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 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 are a new type of vision sensor that incorporates asynchronous and independent pixels, offering advantages over traditional frame-based cameras such as high dynamic range and minimal motion blur. However, their output is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Burak Ercan , Onur Eker , Aykut Erdem , Erkut Erdem

Optical flow is a classical task that is important to the vision community. Classical optical flow estimation uses two frames as input, whilst some recent methods consider multiple frames to explicitly model long-range information. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qiaole Dong , Yanwei Fu

To apply optical flow in practice, it is often necessary to resize the input to smaller dimensions in order to reduce computational costs. However, downsizing inputs makes the estimation more challenging because objects and motion ranges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Hyunyoung Jung , Zhuo Hui , Lei Luo , Haitao Yang , Feng Liu , Sungjoo Yoo , Rakesh Ranjan , Denis Demandolx

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is a crucial component in various applications, including localization and mapping in robotics, object tracking, and activity recognition in computer vision. While recent learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zhiyong Zhang , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

Event-based motion field estimation is an important task. However, current optical flow methods face challenges: learning-based approaches, often frame-based and relying on CNNs, lack cross-domain transferability, while model-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Dehao Yuan , Levi Burner , Jiayi Wu , Minghui Liu , Jingxi Chen , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermüller

Robotic Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize well for open-ended manipulation, but their perception is fragile under sensing-stage degradations such as extreme low light, motion blur, and black clipping. We present E-VLA, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiajun Zhai , Hao Shi , Shangwei Guo , Kailun Yang , Kaiwei Wang

Time-to-Collision (TTC) estimation lies in the core of the forward collision warning (FCW) functionality, which is key to all Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems. Although the success of solutions using frame-based cameras (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Kaizhen Sun , Jinghang Li , Kuan Dai , Bangyan Liao , Wei Xiong , Yi Zhou

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