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Optical flow provides information on relative motion that is an important component in many computer vision pipelines. Neural networks provide high accuracy optical flow, yet their complexity is often prohibitive for application at the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yannick Schnider , Stanislaw Wozniak , Mathias Gehrig , Jules Lecomte , Axel von Arnim , Luca Benini , Davide Scaramuzza , Angeliki Pantazi

Real-time motion detection in non-stationary scenes is a difficult task due to dynamic background, changing foreground appearance and limited computational resource. These challenges degrade the performance of the existing methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Junjie Huang , Wei Zou , Zheng Zhu , Jiagang Zhu

Recovering sharp video sequence from a motion-blurred image is highly ill-posed due to the significant loss of motion information in the blurring process. For event-based cameras, however, fast motion can be captured as events at high time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zhe Jiang , Yu Zhang , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Jiancheng Lv , Yebin Liu

In this work, we propose a novel transformation for events from an event camera that is equivariant to optical flow under convolutions in the 3-D spatiotemporal domain. Events are generated by changes in the image, which are typically due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Ziyun Wang , Kostas Daniilidis

Optical flow computation with frame-based cameras provides high accuracy but the speed is limited either by the model size of the algorithm or by the frame rate of the camera. This makes it inadequate for high-speed applications. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Ashwin Sanjay Lele , Arijit Raychowdhury

The estimation of optical flow and 6-DoF ego-motion, two fundamental tasks in 3D vision, has typically been addressed independently. For neuromorphic vision (e.g., event cameras), however, the lack of robust data association makes solving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Wenpu Li , Bangyan Liao , Yi Zhou , Qi Xu , Pian Wan , Peidong Liu

We propose a continuous optimization method for solving dense 3D scene flow problems from stereo imagery. As in recent work, we represent the dynamic 3D scene as a collection of rigidly moving planar segments. The scene flow problem then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Zhaoyang Lv , Chris Beall , Pablo F. Alcantarilla , Fuxin Li , Zsolt Kira , Frank Dellaert

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

We propose Flow Mismatching, an unsupervised anomaly detection method that deliberately avoids reconstruction-based paradigms. Instead, we treat flow matching as geometric dynamics and leverage a key insight: anomalies occur at places where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Shengzhe Chen , Mehrdad Moradi , Kamran Paynabar , Hao Yan

Event cameras capture changes of illumination in the observed scene rather than accumulating light to create images. Thus, they allow for applications under high-speed motion and complex lighting conditions, where traditional framebased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Event-based camera is a bio-inspired vision sensor that records intensity changes (called event) asynchronously in each pixel. As an instance of event-based camera, Dynamic and Active-pixel Vision Sensor (DAVIS) combines a standard camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Yuhu Guo , Han Xiao , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

High-dynamic scene optical flow is a challenging task, which suffers spatial blur and temporal discontinuous motion due to large displacement in frame imaging, thus deteriorating the spatiotemporal feature of optical flow. Typically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hanyu Zhou , Haonan Wang , Haoyue Liu , Yuxing Duan , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Reconstructing and tracking dynamic 3D scenes remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing approaches often decouple geometry from motion: multi-view reconstruction methods assume static scenes, while dynamic tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shenhan Qian , Ganlin Zhang , Shangzhe Wu , Daniel Cremers

Estimating continuous optical flow is a fundamental yet challenging problem in dynamic visual perception. Event-based cameras, with microsecond latency and high dynamic range, capture brightness changes asynchronously, offering a unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Rui Hu , Song Wu , Wen Yang , Jinjian Wu

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors whose pixels work independently from each other and respond asynchronously to brightness changes, with microsecond resolution. Their advantages make it possible to tackle challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yi Zhou , Guillermo Gallego , Shaojie Shen

This paper addresses the challenges of estimating a continuous-time human motion field from a stream of events. Existing Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) methods rely predominantly on frame-based approaches, which are prone to aliasing and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ziyun Wang , Ruijun Zhang , Zi-Yan Liu , Yufu Wang , Kostas Daniilidis

We present ContinuityCam, a novel approach to generate a continuous video from a single static RGB image and an event camera stream. Conventional cameras struggle with high-speed motion capture due to bandwidth and dynamic range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Ziyun Wang , Friedhelm Hamann , Kenneth Chaney , Wen Jiang , Guillermo Gallego , Kostas Daniilidis

We present a novel approach for real-time joint reconstruction of 3D scene motion and geometry from binocular stereo videos. Our approach is based on a novel variational halfway-domain scene flow formulation, which allows us to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Lucas Thies , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Richardt , Christian Theobalt , Günther Greiner

The optical flow of natural scenes is a combination of the motion of the observer and the independent motion of objects. Existing algorithms typically focus on either recovering motion and structure under the assumption of a purely static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Jonas Wulff , Laura Sevilla-Lara , Michael J. Black

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