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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

Social event detection in a static image is a very challenging problem and it's very useful for internet of things applications including automatic photo organization, ads recommender system, or image captioning. Several publications show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Reza Fuad Rachmadi , Keiichi Uchimura , Gou Koutaki

Event cameras provide high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low latency, offering significant advantages over conventional frame-based cameras. In this work, we introduce an uncertainty-aware refinement network called URNet for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yifeng Cheng , Alois Knoll , Hu Cao

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of action recognition, using event-based cameras. To recognise most gestural actions, often higher temporal precision is required for sampling visual information. Actions are defined by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Rohan Ghosh , Anupam Gupta , Andrei Nakagawa , Alcimar Soares , Nitish Thakor

This paper explores the potential of event cameras to enable continuous time reinforcement learning. We formalise this problem where a continuous stream of unsynchronised observations is used to produce a corresponding stream of output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Event cameras are emerging vision sensors whose noise is challenging to characterize. Existing denoising methods for event cameras are often designed in isolation and thus consider other tasks, such as motion estimation, separately (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Shintaro Shiba , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

Photography during night or in dark conditions typically suffers from noise, low light and blurring issues due to the dim environment and the common use of long exposure. Although Deblurring and Low-light Image Enhancement (LLIE) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Daniel Feijoo , Juan C. Benito , Alvaro Garcia , Marcos V. Conde

Event camera is an asynchronous, high frequency vision sensor with low power consumption, which is suitable for human action understanding task. It is vital to encode the spatial-temporal information of event data properly and use standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Chaoxing Huang

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) aims to improve the visibility of images captured in poorly lit environments. Prevalent event-based solutions primarily utilize events triggered by motion, i.e., ''motion events'' to strengthen only the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lei Sun , Yuhan Bao , Jiajun Zhai , Jingyun Liang , Yulun Zhang , Kaiwei Wang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

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

This paper explores the application of event-based cameras in the domains of image segmentation and motion estimation. These cameras offer a groundbreaking technology by capturing visual information as a continuous stream of asynchronous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Harbir Antil , David Sayre

Optical motion capture systems have become a widely used technology in various fields, such as augmented reality, robotics, movie production, etc. Such systems use a large number of cameras to triangulate the position of optical markers.The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Taras Kucherenko , Jonas Beskow , Hedvig Kjellström

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that respond to per-pixel brightness changes in the form of asynchronous and sparse "events". Recently, pattern recognition algorithms, such as learning-based methods, have made significant progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Nico Messikommer , Daniel Gehrig , Antonio Loquercio , Davide Scaramuzza

Moving Object Detection (MOD) is a critical vision task for successfully achieving safe autonomous driving. Despite plausible results of deep learning methods, most existing approaches are only frame-based and may fail to reach reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zhuyun Zhou , Zongwei Wu , Rémi Boutteau , Fan Yang , Cédric Demonceaux , Dominique Ginhac

Event cameras are novel bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level intensity changes in microsecond accuracy with a high dynamic range and low power consumption. Despite these advantages, event cameras cannot be directly applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jinjin Gu , Jinan Zhou , Ringo Sai Wo Chu , Yan Chen , Jiawei Zhang , Xuanye Cheng , Song Zhang , Jimmy S. Ren

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 or Neuromorphic cameras are novel biologically inspired sensors that record data based on the change in light intensity at each pixel asynchronously. They have a temporal resolution of microseconds. This is useful for scenes with fast…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Harbir Antil , David Sayre

Event cameras are novel sensors that output brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous events instead of intensity frames. Compared to conventional image sensors, they offer significant advantages: high temporal resolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

The stark contrast in the design philosophy of an event camera makes it particularly ideal for operating under high-speed, high dynamic range and low-light conditions, where standard cameras underperform. Nonetheless, event cameras still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Weng Fei Low , Gim Hee Lee

Conventional frame-based cameras inevitably produce blurry effects due to motion occurring during the exposure time. Event camera, a bio-inspired sensor offering continuous visual information could enhance the deblurring performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiaopeng Lin , Hongwei Ren , Yulong Huang , Zunchang Liu , Yue Zhou , Haotian Fu , Biao Pan , Bojun Cheng