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Event cameras record sparse illumination changes with high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Thanks to their sparse recording and low consumption, they are increasingly used in applications such as AR/VR and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alberto Sabater , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

Achieving sharp 3D reconstruction from motion-blurred images alone becomes challenging, motivating recent methods to incorporate event cameras, benefiting from microsecond temporal resolution. However, they suffer from residual artifacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Feiyu An , Yufei Deng , Zihui Zhang , Rong Xiao

The broad scope of obstacle avoidance has led to many kinds of computer vision-based approaches. Despite its popularity, it is not a solved problem. Traditional computer vision techniques using cameras and depth sensors often focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Real-time understanding of long video streams remains challenging for multimodal large language models (VLMs) due to redundant frame processing and rapid forgetting of past context. Existing streaming systems rely on fixed-interval decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhenghui Guo , Yuanbin Man , Junyuan Sheng , Bowen Lin , Ahmed Ahmed , Bo Jiang , Boyuan Zhang , Miao Yin , Sian Jin , Omprakash Gnawal , Chengming Zhang

Event-based cameras offer unique advantages such as high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. However, the massive storage requirements and I/O burdens of existing synthetic data generation pipelines and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Hanyue Lou , Jinxiu Liang , Minggui Teng , Yi Wang , Boxin Shi

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

Optical flow is a fundamental technique for motion estimation, widely applied in video stabilization, interpolation, and object tracking. Traditional optical flow estimation methods rely on restrictive assumptions like brightness constancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu-Hsi Chen , Chin-Tien Wu

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

Event cameras have the ability to record continuous and detailed trajectories of objects with high temporal resolution, thereby providing intuitive motion cues for optical flow estimation. Nevertheless, most existing learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Haotian Liu , Guang Chen , Sanqing Qu , Yanping Zhang , Zhijun Li , Alois Knoll , Changjun Jiang

This work quantitatively evaluates the performance of event-based vision systems (EVS) against conventional RGB-based models for action prediction in collision avoidance on an FPGA accelerator. Our experiments demonstrate that the EVS model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Pietro Bonazzi , Christian Vogt , Michael Jost , Lyes Khacef , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Michele Magno

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) typically relies on cross-correlation,which makes it difficult to obtain instantaneous velocity fields that are both spatially dense and available in real time at high acquisition rates. Optical Flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-22 Juan Pimienta , Jean-Luc Aider

Event cameras are motion-activated sensors that capture pixel-level illumination changes instead of the intensity image with a fixed frame rate. Compared with the standard cameras, it can provide reliable visual perception during high-speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Weipeng Guan , Peiyu Chen , Yuhan Xie , Peng Lu

Event-stream representation is the first step for many computer vision tasks using event cameras. It converts the asynchronous event-streams into a formatted structure so that conventional machine learning models can be applied easily.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Qiang Qu , Xiaoming Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Yiran Shen

Inspired by frame-based methods, state-of-the-art event-based optical flow networks rely on the explicit construction of correlation volumes, which are expensive to compute and store, rendering them unsuitable for robotic applications with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yilun Wu , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Event cameras have higher temporal resolution, and require less storage and bandwidth compared to traditional RGB cameras. However, due to relatively lagging performance of event-based approaches, event cameras have not yet replace…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Muhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan , Abdul Hannan Khan , Andreas Dengel

Optical flow estimation remains challenging due to untextured areas, motion boundaries, occlusions, and more. Thus, the estimated flow is not equally reliable across the image. To that end, post-hoc confidence measures have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Anne S. Wannenwetsch , Margret Keuper , Stefan Roth

Neuromorphic "event" cameras, designed to mimic the human vision system with asynchronous sensing, unlock a new realm of high-speed and high dynamic range applications. However, researchers often either revert to a framed representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Andrew C. Freeman , Montek Singh , Ketan Mayer-Patel

Event cameras have the potential to capture continuous motion information over time and space, making them well-suited for optical flow estimation. However, most existing learning-based methods for event-based optical flow adopt frame-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zuntao Liu , Hao Zhuang , Junjie Jiang , Yuhang Song , Zheng Fang

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

As neuromorphic sensors, event cameras asynchronously record changes in brightness as streams of sparse events with the advantages of high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Reconstructing intensity images from events is a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Weilun Li , Lei Sun , Ruixi Gao , Qi Jiang , Yuqin Ma , Kaiwei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel