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Event-based cameras, inspired by the biological retina, have evolved into cutting-edge sensors distinguished by their minimal power requirements, negligible latency, superior temporal resolution, and expansive dynamic range. At present,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Han Wang , Yuman Nie , Yun Li , Hongjie Liu , Min Liu , Wen Cheng , Yaoxiong Wang

Lossy compression and rate-adaptive streaming are a mainstay in traditional video steams. However, a new class of neuromorphic ``event'' sensors records video with asynchronous pixel samples rather than image frames. These sensors are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Andrew C. Freeman

Event camera is a new type of sensor that is different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by an event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Kun Xiao , Pengju Li , Guohui Wang , Zhi Li , Yi Chen , Yongfeng Xie , Yuqiang Fang

Sparse and asynchronous sensing and processing in natural organisms lead to ultra low-latency and energy-efficient perception. Event cameras, known as neuromorphic vision sensors, are designed to mimic these characteristics. However, fully…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Junjie Jiang , Delei Kong , Chenming Hu , Zheng Fang

This work contributes an event-driven visual-tactile perception system, comprising a novel biologically-inspired tactile sensor and multi-modal spike-based learning. Our neuromorphic fingertip tactile sensor, NeuTouch, scales well with the…

In contrast to traditional cameras, whose pixels have a common exposure time, event-based cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors whose pixels work independently and asynchronously output intensity changes (called "events"), with microsecond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Timo Stoffregen , Guillermo Gallego , Tom Drummond , Lindsay Kleeman , Davide Scaramuzza

The astronomy community has witnessed an explosive growth in the use of deep-learning techniques based on neural networks since the mid-2010s. The widespread adoption of these nature-inspired technologies has helped astronomers tackle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 John Hoang

Event cameras trigger events asynchronously and independently upon a sufficient change of the logarithmic brightness level. The neuromorphic sensor has several advantages over standard cameras including low latency, absence of motion blur,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Peng Xin , Xu Wanting , Yang Jiaqi , Kneip Laurent

When legged robots perform agile movements, traditional RGB cameras often produce blurred images, posing a challenge for rapid perception. Event cameras have emerged as a promising solution for capturing rapid perception and coping with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Shifan Zhu , Zixun Xiong , Donghyun Kim

Fast neuromorphic event-based vision sensors (Dynamic Vision Sensor, DVS) can be combined with slower conventional frame-based sensors to enable higher-quality inter-frame interpolation than traditional methods relying on fixed motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Adam Radomski , Andreas Georgiou , Thomas Debrunner , Chenghan Li , Luca Longinotti , Minwon Seo , Moosung Kwak , Chang-Woo Shin , Paul K. J. Park , Hyunsurk Eric Ryu , Kynan Eng

Event cameras are novel sensors that output brightness changes in the form of a stream of asynchronous "events" instead of intensity frames. They offer significant advantages with respect to conventional cameras: high dynamic range (HDR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Daniel Gehrig , Mathias Gehrig , Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Davide Scaramuzza

Event-based vision, inspired by the human visual system, offers transformative capabilities such as low latency, high dynamic range, and reduced power consumption. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of event cameras, tracing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Bharatesh Chakravarthi , Aayush Atul Verma , Kostas Daniilidis , Cornelia Fermuller , Yezhou Yang

Predicting a potential collision with leading vehicles is an essential functionality of any autonomous/assisted driving system. One bottleneck of existing vision-based solutions is that their updating rate is limited to the frame rate of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jinghang Li , Bangyan Liao , Xiuyuan LU , Peidong Liu , Shaojie Shen , Yi Zhou

Event cameras are innovative neuromorphic sensors that asynchronously capture the scene dynamics. Due to the event-triggering mechanism, such cameras record event streams with much shorter response latency and higher intensity sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yunhao Zou , Ying Fu , Tsuyoshi Takatani , Yinqiang Zheng

Event-based vision sensors, such as the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), are ideally suited for real-time motion analysis. The unique properties encompassed in the readings of such sensors provide high temporal resolution, superior sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Anton Mitrokhin , Cornelia Fermuller , Chethan Parameshwara , Yiannis Aloimonos

Robotic grippers are receiving increasing attention in various industries as essential components of robots for interacting and manipulating objects. While significant progress has been made in the past, conventional rigid grippers still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Qianyu Guo , Ziqing Yu , Jiaming Fu , Yawen Lu , Yahya Zweiri , Dongming Gan

Aerial surveillance demands rapid and precise detection of moving objects in dynamic environments. Event cameras, which draw inspiration from biological vision systems, present a promising alternative to frame-based sensors due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Sami Arja , Alexandre Marcireau , Saeed Afshar , Bharath Ramesh , Gregory Cohen

Event cameras are bio-inspired, motion-activated sensors that demonstrate substantial potential in handling challenging situations, such as motion blur and high-dynamic range. In this paper, we proposed EVI-SAM to tackle the problem of 6…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Weipeng Guan , Peiyu Chen , Huibin Zhao , Yu Wang , Peng Lu

Event cameras have emerged as a promising sensing modality for autonomous navigation systems, owing to their high temporal resolution, high dynamic range and negligible motion blur. To process the asynchronous temporal event streams from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shrihari Sridharan , Surya Selvam , Kaushik Roy , Anand Raghunathan

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture the per-pixel intensity changes asynchronously and produce event streams encoding the time, pixel position, and polarity (sign) of the intensity changes. Event cameras possess a myriad of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Xu Zheng , Yexin Liu , Yunfan Lu , Tongyan Hua , Tianbo Pan , Weiming Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Lin Wang