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Event cameras deliver visual data with high temporal resolution, low latency, and minimal redundancy, yet their asynchronous, sparse sequential nature challenges standard tensor-based machine learning (ML). While the recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haiqing Hao , Nikola Zubić , Weihua He , Zhipeng Sui , Davide Scaramuzza , Wenhui Wang

We present a method that leverages the complementarity of event cameras and standard cameras to track visual features with low-latency. Event cameras are novel sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes, called "events". They offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Daniel Gehrig , Henri Rebecq , Guillermo Gallego , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras respond to changes in log-brightness at the millisecond level, making them ideal for optical flow estimation. However, existing datasets from event cameras provide only low frame rate ground truth for optical flow, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yaozu Ye , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Ze Wang , Xiaoting Yin , Lei Sun , Yaonan Wang , Kaiwei Wang

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that differ from conventional frame cameras: Instead of capturing images at a fixed rate, they asynchronously measure per-pixel brightness changes, and output a stream of events that encode the time,…

Visual Odometry (VO) is crucial for autonomous robotic navigation, especially in GPS-denied environments like planetary terrains. To improve robustness, recent model-based VO systems have begun combining standard and event-based cameras.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Roberto Pellerito , Marco Cannici , Daniel Gehrig , Joris Belhadj , Olivier Dubois-Matra , Massimo Casasco , Davide Scaramuzza

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

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 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

A key task in embedded vision is visual odometry (VO), which estimates camera motion from visual sensors, and it is a core component in many embedded power-constrained systems, from autonomous robots to augmented and virtual reality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Alessandro Marchei , Lorenzo Lamberti , Daniele Palossi , Luca Benini

Different from visible cameras which record intensity images frame by frame, the biologically inspired event camera produces a stream of asynchronous and sparse events with much lower latency. In practice, visible cameras can better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Xiao Wang , Jianing Li , Lin Zhu , Zhipeng Zhang , Zhe Chen , Xin Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Feng Wu

Event-based cameras are dynamic vision sensors that provide asynchronous measurements of changes in per-pixel brightness at a microsecond level. This makes them significantly faster than conventional frame-based cameras, and an appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sai Vemprala , Sami Mian , Ashish Kapoor

The event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor. When the brightness change exceeds the preset threshold, the sensor generates events asynchronously. The number of valid events directly affects the performance of event-based tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xijie Xiang , Lin Zhu , Jianing Li , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Event-based visual odometry is a specific branch of visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques, which aims at solving tracking and mapping subproblems (typically in parallel), by exploiting the special working principles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Xiuyuan Lu , Shaojie Shen , Guillermo Gallego , Yi Zhou

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that mimic retinas to asynchronously report per-pixel intensity changes rather than outputting an actual intensity image at regular intervals. This new paradigm of image sensor offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yusuke Sekikawa , Kosuke Hara , Hideo Saito

Event cameras that asynchronously output low-latency event streams provide great opportunities for state estimation under challenging situations. Despite event-based visual odometry having been extensively studied in recent years, most of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Peiyu Chen , Weipeng Guan , Peng Lu

Event cameras are well suited for visual odometry under high-speed motion and challenging lighting conditions due to their low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range. Deep Event Visual Odometry (DEVO) demonstrated that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Alireza Safdari , Sajad Ashraf

Contrary to conventional frame-based imaging, event-based vision (EBV) or dynamic vision sensing (DVS) asynchronously records binary signals of intensity changes for given pixels with microsecond resolution. The present work explores the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-22 Christian Willert , Joachim Klinner

Event cameras offer the exciting possibility of tracking the camera's pose during high-speed motion and in adverse lighting conditions. Despite this promise, existing event-based monocular visual odometry (VO) approaches demonstrate limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Simon Klenk , Marvin Motzet , Lukas Koestler , Daniel Cremers

We present a novel real-time visual odometry framework for a stereo setup of a depth and high-resolution event camera. Our framework balances accuracy and robustness against computational efficiency towards strong performance in challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yi-Fan Zuo , Jiaqi Yang , Jiaben Chen , Xia Wang , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

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