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Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that perform well in challenging illumination conditions and have high temporal resolution. However, their concept is fundamentally different from traditional frame-based cameras. The pixels of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Xin Peng , Ling Gao , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

The background-oriented Schlieren technique has emerged as a promising method for visualizing density gradients and performing quantitative measurements. However, an inherent constraint of BOS is the compromise between spatial resolution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-08 Xiang Li , Muen Gao , Weiran Wang , Jiawei Li , Chong Pan , Jinjun Wang , Yuan Xiong

We develop a framework for non-invasive volumetric indoor airflow estimation from a single viewpoint using background-oriented schlieren (BOS) measurements and physics-informed reconstruction. Our framework utilizes a light projector that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Arjun Teh , Wael H. Ali , Joshua Rapp , Hassan Mansour

Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

Event cameras rely on motion to obtain information about scene appearance. This means that appearance and motion are inherently linked: either both are present and recorded in the event data, or neither is captured. Previous works treat the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuang Guo , Friedhelm Hamann , Guillermo Gallego

Seedless velocimetry is gaining interest in many industrial and research applications. We report on a comparative study of time-resolved optical velocimetry using traditional, mirror-type knife-edge schlieren optics versus…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-24 Gary S. Settles , Alex Liberzon

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras (low latency, high dynamic range, low power, etc.). Optical flow estimation methods that work on packets of events trade off speed for accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

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

The diffusion of drones presents significant security and safety challenges. Traditional surveillance systems, particularly conventional frame-based cameras, struggle to reliably detect these targets due to their small size, high agility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Gabriele Magrini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Luca Cultrera , Federico Becattini , Pietro Pala

Event-based imaging is a neurmorphic detection technique whereby an array of pixels detects a positive or negative change in light intensity at each pixel, and is hence particularly well suited to detecting motion. As compared to standard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-16 Yugang Ren , Enrique Benedetto , Harry Borrill , Yelizaveta Savchuk , Molly Message , Katie O'Flynn , Muddassar Rashid , James Millen

Identifying independently moving objects is an essential task for dynamic scene understanding. However, traditional cameras used in dynamic scenes may suffer from motion blur or exposure artifacts due to their sampling principle. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yi Zhou , Guillermo Gallego , Xiuyuan Lu , Siqi Liu , Shaojie Shen

Event-based cameras can overpass frame-based cameras limitations for important tasks such as high-speed motion detection during self-driving cars navigation in low illumination conditions. The event cameras' high temporal resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Haixin Sun , Minh-Quan Dao , Vincent Fremont

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

In this study, we introduce a unique approach that employs time-resolved Schlieren imaging to capture and visualize the dynamic changes of a thin liquid (mixture of water, soap and glycerin) film in ultrasonic wave field with high spatial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-06 Weitao Sun , Diyao Wang , Yuheng Yang , Fangyu Cai , Mingchen Gao , Sirui Guo

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 2018-04-06 Antoni Rosinol Vidal , Henri Rebecq , Timo Horstschaefer , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that perform well in HDR conditions and have high temporal resolution. However, different from traditional frame-based cameras, event cameras measure asynchronous pixel-level brightness changes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Xin Peng , Yifu Wang , Ling Gao , Laurent Kneip

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

Benefiting from the development of increasingly advanced high speed cameras, flow visualization and analysis nowadays yield detailed data of the flow field in many applications. Notwithstanding this progress, for high speed and supersonic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-29 Ella Giskes , Ruben A. Verschoof , Frans B. Segerink , Cornelis H. Venner

Event cameras are dynamic vision sensors inspired by the biological retina, characterized by their high dynamic range, high temporal resolution, and low power consumption. These features make them capable of perceiving 3D environments even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Hoonhee Cho , Jae-Young Kang , Kuk-Jin Yoon

The following is a report on an experimental technique allowing to quantify and map the velocity field with a very high resolution and a simple equipment in large 2D devices. A simple Shlieren technique is proposed to reinforce the contrast…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-22 Johan Paiola , Harold Auradou , Hugues Bodiguel