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Spike cameras, bio-inspired vision sensors, asynchronously fire spikes by accumulating light intensities at each pixel, offering ultra-high energy efficiency and exceptional temporal resolution. Unlike event cameras, which record changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yasser Ashraf , Ahmed Sharshar , Velibor Bojkovic , Bin Gu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) demonstrates unparalleled superior performance in 3D scene reconstruction. However, 3DGS heavily relies on the sharp images. Fulfilling this requirement can be challenging in real-world scenarios especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yijia Guo , Liwen Hu , Yuanxi Bai , Jiawei Yao , Lei Ma , Tiejun Huang

Recently, a novel bio-inspired spike camera has been proposed, which continuously accumulates luminance intensity and fires spikes while the dispatch threshold is reached. Compared to the conventional frame-based cameras and the emerging…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Siwei Dong , Lin Zhu , Daoyuan Xu , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Conventional cameras generate a lot of data that can be challenging to process in resource-constrained applications. Usually, cameras generate data streams on the order of the number of pixels in the image. However, most of this captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sasidharan Mahalingam , Rachel Brown , Atul Ingle

The miniaturization of transistors down to 5nm and beyond, plus the increasing complexity of integrated circuits, significantly aggravate short channel effects, and demand analysis and optimization of more design corners and modes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Mohammad Saeed Abrishami , Massoud Pedram , Shahin Nazarian

As a bio-inspired vision sensor, the spike camera emulates the operational principles of the fovea, a compact retinal region, by employing spike discharges to encode the accumulation of per-pixel luminance intensity. Leveraging its high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Lin Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xiao Wang , Hua Huang

Rapid industrial digitalization has created intricate cybersecurity demands that necessitate effective validation methods. While cyber ranges and simulation platforms are widely deployed, they frequently face limitations in scenario…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jiaqi Li , Xizhong Guo , Yang Zhao , Lvyang Zhang , Lidong Zhai

The study of eye movements, particularly saccades and fixations, are fundamental to understanding the mechanisms of human cognition and perception. Accurate classification of these movements requires sensing technologies capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Khadija Iddrisu , Waseem Shariff , Suzanne Little , Noel OConnor

Spike camera mimicking the retina fovea can report per-pixel luminance intensity accumulation by firing spikes. As a bio-inspired vision sensor with high temporal resolution, it has a huge potential for computer vision. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Liwen Hu , Lei Ma , Dawei Weng , Tiejun Huang

We introduce DiffPhysCam, a differentiable camera simulator designed to support robotics and embodied AI applications by enabling gradient-based optimization in visual perception pipelines. Generating synthetic images that closely mimic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Bo-Hsun Chen , Nevindu M. Batagoda , Dan Negrut

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to current artificial neural networks to enable low-power event-driven neuromorphic hardware. Spike-based neuromorphic applications require processing and extracting meaningful…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Deboleena Roy , Priyadarshini Panda , Kaushik Roy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are the so-called third generation of neural networks which attempt to more closely match the functioning of the biological brain. They inherently encode temporal data, allowing for training with less energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chethan M. Parameshwara , Simin Li , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Matthew S. Evanusa , Yiannis Aloimonos

Research in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has made outstanding progress over the past years. SLAM systems are nowadays transitioning from academic to real world applications. However, this transition has posed new demanding…

Deep denoising models require extensive real-world training data, which is challenging to acquire. Current noise synthesis techniques struggle to accurately model complex noise distributions. We propose a novel Realistic Noise Synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Qi Wu , Mingyan Han , Ting Jiang , Chengzhi Jiang , Jinting Luo , Man Jiang , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Depth estimation is an important computer vision task, useful in particular for navigation in autonomous vehicles, or for object manipulation in robotics. Here we solved it using an end-to-end neuromorphic approach, combining two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ulysse Rançon , Javier Cuadrado-Anibarro , Benoit R. Cottereau , Timothée Masquelier

This paper presents ``Stim", a fast simulator for quantum stabilizer circuits. The paper explains how Stim works and compares it to existing tools. With no foreknowledge, Stim can analyze a distance 100 surface code circuit (20 thousand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Craig Gidney

Detecting a diverse range of objects under various driving scenarios is essential for the effectiveness of autonomous driving systems. However, the real-world data collected often lacks the necessary diversity presenting a long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Aqeel Anwar , Tae Eun Choe , Zian Wang , Sanja Fidler , Minwoo Park

As perception models continue to develop, the need for large-scale datasets increases. However, data annotation remains far too expensive to effectively scale and meet the demand. Synthetic datasets provide a solution to boost model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Arpit Jadon , Haoran Wang , Phillip Thomas , Michael Stanley , S. Nathaniel Cibik , Rachel Laurat , Omar Maher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Dengxin Dai

This work introduces MICSim, an open-source, pre-circuit simulator designed for early-stage evaluation of chip-level software performance and hardware overhead of mixed-signal compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators. MICSim features a modular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Cong Wang , Zeming Chen , Shanshi Huang

Event cameras generate asynchronous and sparse event streams capturing changes in light intensity. They offer significant advantages over conventional frame-based cameras, such as a higher dynamic range and an extremely faster data rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yi Tian , Juan Andrade-Cetto