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Event cameras contain emerging, neuromorphic vision sensors that capture local light intensity changes at each pixel, generating a stream of asynchronous events. This way of acquiring visual information constitutes a departure from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Cian Ryan , Brian O Sullivan , Amr Elrasad , Joe Lemley , Paul Kielty , Christoph Posch , Etienne Perot

Despite significant progress, RGB-based trackers remain vulnerable to challenging imaging conditions, such as low illumination and fast motion. Event cameras offer a promising alternative by asynchronously capturing pixel-wise brightness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Duoqing Yang , Wenhao Zhang , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Yonghong Tian , Bin Luo

Event cameras are a new type of sensors that are different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kun Xiao , Guohui Wang , Yi Chen , Yongfeng Xie , Hong Li , Sen Li

In this work, we propose a motion robust and high-speed detection pipeline which better leverages the event data. First, we design an event stream representation called temporal active focus (TAF), which efficiently utilizes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Bingde Liu , Chang Xu , Wen Yang , Huai Yu , Lei Yu

Event cameras trigger events asynchronously and independently upon a sufficient change of the logarithmic brightness level. The neuromorphic sensor has several advantages over standard cameras including low latency, absence of motion blur,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Peng Xin , Xu Wanting , Yang Jiaqi , Kneip Laurent

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

Event cameras generate asynchronous signals in response to pixel-level brightness changes, offering a sensing paradigm with theoretically microsecond-scale latency that can significantly enhance the performance of multi-sensor systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jiayao Mai , Xiuyuan Lu , Kuan Dai , Shaojie Shen , Yi Zhou

Object tracking is an important functionality of edge video analytic systems and services. Multi-object tracking (MOT) detects the moving objects and tracks their locations frame by frame as real scenes are being captured into a video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Sanjana Vijay Ganesh , Yanzhao Wu , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Kompella , Ling Liu

In contrast to traditional cameras, whose pixels have a common exposure time, event-based cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors whose pixels work independently and asynchronously output intensity changes (called "events"), with microsecond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Timo Stoffregen , Guillermo Gallego , Tom Drummond , Lindsay Kleeman , Davide Scaramuzza

In this paper, we propose a method for real-time anomaly detection and localization in crowded scenes. Each video is defined as a set of non-overlapping cubic patches, and is described using two local and global descriptors. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Mohammad Sabokrou , Mahmood Fathy , Mojtaba Hosseini , Reinhard Klette

In this work, we present optical space imaging using an unconventional yet promising class of imaging devices known as neuromorphic event-based sensors. These devices, which are modeled on the human retina, do not operate with frames, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Saeed Afshar , Andrew P Nicholson , Andre van Schaik , Gregory Cohen

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

Development of computing power and cheap video cameras enabled today's traffic management systems to include more cameras and computer vision applications for transportation system monitoring and control. Combined with image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Kristian Kovačić , Edouard Ivanjko , Niko Jelušić

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

Event cameras, with their high temporal and dynamic range and minimal memory usage, have found applications in various fields. However, their potential in static traffic monitoring remains largely unexplored. To facilitate this exploration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Aayush Atul Verma , Bharatesh Chakravarthi , Arpitsinh Vaghela , Hua Wei , Yezhou Yang

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

Augmented reality devices require multiple sensors to perform various tasks such as localization and tracking. Currently, popular cameras are mostly frame-based (e.g. RGB and Depth) which impose a high data bandwidth and power usage. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Etienne Dubeau , Mathieu Garon , Benoit Debaque , Raoul de Charette , Jean-François Lalonde

Tracking Any Point (TAP) plays a crucial role in motion analysis. Video-based approaches rely on iterative local matching for tracking, but they assume linear motion during the blind time between frames, which leads to point loss under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Han Han , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Bin Li , Zheng-jun Zha

Event cameras are a new type of brain-inspired visual sensor with advantages such as high dynamic range and high temporal resolution. The geometric calibration of event cameras, which involves determining their intrinsic and extrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zibin Liu , Shunkun Liang , Banglei Guan , Dongcai Tan , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu

Object detection and tracking is an essential perception task for enabling fully autonomous navigation in robotic systems. Edge robot systems such as small drones need to execute complex maneuvers at high-speeds with limited resources,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Amogh Joshi , Arjun Roy , Rohan Kumar Manna , Manish Nagaraj , Kaushik Roy