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This paper presents a new event-based method for detecting and tracking features from the output of an event-based camera. Unlike many tracking algorithms from the computer vision community, this process does not aim for particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Laurent Dardelet , Sio-Hoi Ieng , Ryad Benosman

Tracking-Any-Point (TAP) models aim to track any point through a video which is a crucial task in AR/XR and robotics applications. The recently introduced TAPNext approach proposes an end-to-end, recurrent transformer architecture to track…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sebastian Jung , Artem Zholus , Martin Sundermeyer , Carl Doersch , Ross Goroshin , David Joseph Tan , Sarath Chandar , Rudolph Triebel , Federico Tombari

Humans excel at constructing panoramic mental models of their surroundings, maintaining object permanence and inferring scene structure beyond visible regions. In contrast, current artificial vision systems struggle with persistent,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Finlay G. C. Hudson , James A. D. Gardner , William A. P. Smith

Event cameras are an interesting visual exteroceptive sensor that reacts to brightness changes rather than integrating absolute image intensities. Owing to this design, the sensor exhibits strong performance in situations of challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Runze Yuan , Tao Liu , Zijia Dai , Yi-Fan Zuo , Laurent Kneip

In this paper, an event-based tracker is presented. Inspired by recent advances in asynchronous processing of individual events, we develop a direct matching scheme that aligns spatial distributions of events at different times. More…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Maria Zafeiri , Georgios Evangelidis , Emmanouil Psarakis

Event cameras have recently shown promising capabilities in instantaneous motion estimation due to their robustness to low light and fast motions. However, computing wide-baseline correspondence between two arbitrary views remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ruijun Zhang , Hang Su , Kostas Daniilidis , Ziyun Wang

Gait recognition enables non-intrusive, privacy-preserving identification but suffers in uncontrolled environments due to illumination and motion sensitivity of conventional cameras. In this work, we explore gait recognition using event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Senyan Xu , Shuai Chen , Chuanfu Shen , Kean Liu , Zhijing Sun , Chengzhi Cao , Xueyang Fu

Visual object tracking under challenging conditions of motion and light can be hindered by the capabilities of conventional cameras, prone to producing images with motion blur. Event cameras are novel sensors suited to robustly perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues

Accurate tracking of tissues and instruments in videos is crucial for Robotic-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS), as it enables the robot to comprehend the surgical scene with precise locations and interactions of tissues and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Bohan Zhan , Wang Zhao , Yi Fang , Bo Du , Francisco Vasconcelos , Danail Stoyanov , Daniel S. Elson , Baoru Huang

Pose estimation and tracking of objects is a fundamental application in 3D vision. Event cameras possess remarkable attributes such as high dynamic range, low latency, and resilience against motion blur, which enables them to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zibin Liu , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu , Laurent Kneip

Identifying independently moving objects is an essential task for dynamic scene understanding. However, traditional cameras used in dynamic scenes may suffer from motion blur or exposure artifacts due to their sampling principle. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yi Zhou , Guillermo Gallego , Xiuyuan Lu , Siqi Liu , Shaojie Shen

Event cameras offering high dynamic range and low latency have emerged as disruptive technologies in imaging. Despite growing research on leveraging these benefits for different imaging tasks, a comprehensive study of recently advances and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yunfan Lu , Xiaogang Xu , Pengteng Li , Yusheng Wang , Yi Cui , Huizai Yao , Hui Xiong

Event cameras deliver visual information characterized by a high dynamic range and high temporal resolution, offering significant advantages in estimating optical flow for complex lighting conditions and fast-moving objects. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gangwei Xu , Haotong Lin , Zhaoxing Zhang , Hongcheng Luo , Haiyang Sun , Xin Yang

Inspired by the complementarity between conventional frame-based and bio-inspired event-based cameras, we propose a multi-modal based approach to fuse visual cues from the frame- and event-domain to enhance the single object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Yingkai Fu , Xiaopeng Wei , Baocai Yin , Bo Dong

Event cameras have the ability to record continuous and detailed trajectories of objects with high temporal resolution, thereby providing intuitive motion cues for optical flow estimation. Nevertheless, most existing learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Haotian Liu , Guang Chen , Sanqing Qu , Yanping Zhang , Zhijun Li , Alois Knoll , Changjun Jiang

In this paper, we propose a simple and strong framework for Tracking Any Point with TRansformers (TAPTR). Based on the observation that point tracking bears a great resemblance to object detection and tracking, we borrow designs from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Hongyang Li , Hao Zhang , Shilong Liu , Zhaoyang Zeng , Tianhe Ren , Feng Li , Lei Zhang

Recent visual autonomous perception systems achieve remarkable performances with deep representation learning. However, they fail in scenarios with challenging illumination.While event cameras can mitigate this problem, there is a lack of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jinghang Li , Shichao Li , Qing Lian , Peiliang Li , Xiaozhi Chen , Yi Zhou

Event cameras encode visual information with high temporal precision, low data-rate, and high-dynamic range. Thanks to these characteristics, event cameras are particularly suited for scenarios with high motion, challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Etienne Perot , Pierre de Tournemire , Davide Nitti , Jonathan Masci , Amos Sironi

Reliable self-localization is a foundational skill for many intelligent mobile platforms. This paper explores the use of event cameras for motion tracking thereby providing a solution with inherent robustness under difficult dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tao Liu , Runze Yuan , Yi'ang Ju , Xun Xu , Jiaqi Yang , Xiangting Meng , Xavier Lagorce , Laurent Kneip

We tackle the problem of Persistent Independent Particles (PIPs), also called Tracking Any Point (TAP), in videos, which specifically aims at estimating persistent long-term trajectories of query points in videos. Previous methods attempted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Weikang Bian , Zhaoyang Huang , Xiaoyu Shi , Yitong Dong , Yijin Li , Hongsheng Li