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For many fundamental scene understanding tasks, it is difficult or impossible to obtain per-pixel ground truth labels from real images. We address this challenge by introducing Hypersim, a photorealistic synthetic dataset for holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Mike Roberts , Jason Ramapuram , Anurag Ranjan , Atulit Kumar , Miguel Angel Bautista , Nathan Paczan , Russ Webb , Joshua M. Susskind

Rigorously testing autonomy systems is essential for making safe self-driving vehicles (SDV) a reality. It requires one to generate safety critical scenarios beyond what can be collected safely in the world, as many scenarios happen rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ze Yang , Yun Chen , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Wei-Chiu Ma , Anqi Joyce Yang , Raquel Urtasun

With the rapid growth of urban transportation and the continuous progress in autonomous driving, a demand for robust benchmarking autonomous driving algorithms has emerged, calling for accurate modeling of large-scale urban traffic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yuheng Zhang , Tianjian Ouyang , Fudan Yu , Lei Qiao , Wei Wu , Jingtao Ding , Jian Yuan , Yong Li

We propose FreeSim, a camera simulation method for autonomous driving. FreeSim emphasizes high-quality rendering from viewpoints beyond the recorded ego trajectories. In such viewpoints, previous methods have unacceptable degradation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Lue Fan , Hao Zhang , Qitai Wang , Hongsheng Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Spike cameras offer unique sensing capabilities but their sparse, asynchronous output challenges semantic understanding, especially for Spike Video-Language Alignment (Spike-VLA) where models like CLIP underperform due to modality mismatch.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yongchang Gao , Meiling Jin , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang , Guozhang Chen

In the past few decades, autonomous driving algorithms have made significant progress in perception, planning, and control. However, evaluating individual components does not fully reflect the performance of entire systems, highlighting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Hongyu Zhou , Longzhong Lin , Jiabao Wang , Yichong Lu , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Yue Wang , Andreas Geiger , Yiyi Liao

Event cameras are considered to have great potential for computer vision and robotics applications because of their high temporal resolution and low power consumption characteristics. However, the event stream output from event cameras has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xiaoshan Wu , Weihua He , Man Yao , Ziyang Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Guoqi Li

We present a challenging dataset, ChangeSim, aimed at online scene change detection (SCD) and more. The data is collected in photo-realistic simulation environments with the presence of environmental non-targeted variations, such as air…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Jin-Man Park , Jae-Hyuk Jang , Sahng-Min Yoo , Sun-Kyung Lee , Ue-Hwan Kim , Jong-Hwan Kim

Event cameras provide high temporal precision, low data rates, and high dynamic range visual perception, which are well-suited for optical flow estimation. While data-driven optical flow estimation has obtained great success in RGB cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yijin Li , Zhaoyang Huang , Shuo Chen , Xiaoyu Shi , Hongsheng Li , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang

Creating datasets for Neuromorphic Vision is a challenging task. A lack of available recordings from Neuromorphic Vision sensors means that data must typically be recorded specifically for dataset creation rather than collecting and…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Garrick Orchard , Ajinkya Jayawant , Gregory Cohen , Nitish Thakor

Event-based cameras display great potential for a variety of tasks such as high-speed motion detection and navigation in low-light environments where conventional frame-based cameras suffer critically. This is attributed to their high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Chankyu Lee , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Alex Zihao Zhu , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis , Kaushik Roy

Autonomous checkout systems rely on visual and sensory inputs to carry out fine-grained scene understanding in retail environments. Retail environments present unique challenges compared to typical indoor scenes owing to the vast number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Cristina Mata , Nick Locascio , Mohammed Azeem Sheikh , Kenny Kihara , Dan Fischetti

Spike camera, a type of neuromorphic sensor with high-temporal resolution, shows great promise for high-speed visual tasks. Unlike traditional cameras, spike camera continuously accumulates photons and fires asynchronous spike streams. Due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Liwen Hu , Yang Li , Mianzhi Liu , Yijia Guo , Shenghao Xie , Ziluo Ding , Tiejun Huang , Lei Ma

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) reconstructs a super-resolved image from multiple raw images captured with different illumination patterns; hence, acquisition speed is limited, making it unsuitable for dynamic scenes. We propose a…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Fanglin Linda Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Laura Waller

In the early stages of semiconductor equipment development, obtaining large quantities of raw optical images poses a significant challenge. This data scarcity hinder the advancement of AI-powered solutions in semiconductor manufacturing. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 ChunLiang Wu , Xiaochun Li

This paper introduces a spike camera with a distinct video capture scheme and proposes two methods of decoding the spike stream for texture reconstruction. The spike camera captures light and accumulates the converted luminance intensity at…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Siwei Dong , Tiejun Huang , Yonghong Tian

Simulation is increasingly being used for generating large labelled datasets in many machine learning problems. Recent methods have focused on adjusting simulator parameters with the goal of maximising accuracy on a validation task, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Harkirat Singh Behl , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Ran Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Vibhav Vineet

SNNs are an active research domain towards energy efficient machine intelligence. Compared to conventional ANNs, SNNs use temporal spike data and bio-plausible neuronal activation functions such as Leaky-Integrate Fire/Integrate Fire…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Abhishek Moitra , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Runcong Kuang , Gokul Krishnan , Yu Cao , Priyadarshini Panda

Realistic and interactive traffic simulation is essential for training and evaluating autonomous driving systems. However, most existing data-driven simulation methods rely on static initialization or log-replay data, limiting their ability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhenghao Peng , Yuxin Liu , Bolei Zhou

While self-supervised pretraining has reduced vision systems' reliance on synthetic data, simulation remains an indispensable tool for closed-loop optimization and rigorous out-of-distribution (OOD) evaluation. However, modern simulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wufei Ma , Chloe Wang , Siyi Chen , Jiawei Peng , Patrick Li , Alan Yuille