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Micro-expression analysis has applications in domains such as Human-Robot Interaction and Driver Monitoring Systems. Accurately capturing subtle and fast facial movements remains difficult when relying solely on RGB cameras, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Nicolas Mastropasqua , Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova , Rodrigo Verschae , Daniel Acevedo , Pablo Negri , Maria E. Buemi

Robot manipulation is a common task in fields like industrial manufacturing. Detecting when objects slip from a robot's grasp is crucial for safe and reliable operation. Event cameras, which register pixel-level brightness changes at high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Thilo Reinold , Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

Most change detection methods assume that pre-change and post-change images are acquired by the same sensor. However, in many real-life scenarios, e.g., natural disaster, it is more practical to use the latest available images before and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Sudipan Saha , Patrick Ebel , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture brightness change of every pixel in an asynchronous manner. Compared with frame-based sensors, event cameras have microsecond-level latency and high dynamic range, hence showing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Dongsheng Wang , Xu Jia , Yang Zhang , Xinyu Zhang , Yaoyuan Wang , Ziyang Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Laser guide stars (LGS) are used in many adaptive optics systems to extend sky coverage. The most common wavefront sensor used in combination with a LGS is a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (SHWFS). The Shack-Hartmann has a major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 Sebastiaan Y. Haffert , Christoph U. Keller , Richard Dekany

When a source star is gravitationally microlensed by a dark lens, the centroid of the source star image is displaced relative to the position of the unlensed source star with an elliptical trajectory. Recently, routine astrometric follow-up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han , Youngjin Jeong

Fast variability of optical objects is an interesting though poorly explored subject in modern astronomy. Real-time data processing and identification of transient celestial events in the images is very important for such study as it allows…

Event-based Vision Sensors (EVS) have demonstrated significant advantages over traditional RGB frame-based cameras in low-light conditions, high-speed motion capture, and low latency. Consequently, object detection based on EVS has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiao Wang , Yu Jin , Lan Chen , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Recently, Heyrovsk\'y & Sasselov (1999) investigated the sensitivity of {\it single-lens} gravitational microlensing event light curves to small spots and found that during source transit events spots can cause deviations in amplification…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han , Ho-Il Kim , Kyungae Chang , Seong-Hong Park

Tip-enhanced nano-spectroscopy and -imaging, such as tip-enhanced photoluminescence (TEPL), tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), and others, have become indispensable from materials science to single molecule studies. However, the…

We demonstrate the use of an optimized 5 core photonic lantern (PL) to simultaneously measure tip/tilt errors at the telescope focal plane, while also providing the input to an instrument. By replacing a single mode (SM) fiber with the PL…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-24 Mark K. Corrigan , Timothy J. Morris , Robert J. Harris , Theodoros Anagnos

Optical tactile sensors have recently become popular. They provide high spatial resolution, but struggle to offer fine temporal resolutions. To overcome this shortcoming, we study the idea of replacing the RGB camera with an event-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Niklas Funk , Erik Helmut , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Roberto Calandra , Jan Peters

The paper addresses the shortcoming of current event-based vision (EBV) sensors in the context of particle imaging. Latency is introduced both on the pixel level as well as during read-out from the array and results in systemic timing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-24 Christian E. Willert

Event-based moving object detection is a challenging task, where static background and moving object are mixed together. Typically, existing methods mainly align the background events to the same spatial coordinate system via motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Hanyu Zhou , Zhiwei Shi , Hao Dong , Shihan Peng , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

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

As the number of detected gravitational wave sources increase with increasing sensitivity of the gravitational wave observatories, observing strongly lensed pair of events will become a real possibility. Lensed GW events will have very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Anupreeta More , Surhud More

In event-based sensing, many sensors independently and asynchronously emit events when there is a change in their input. Event-based sensing can present significant improvements in power efficiency when compared to traditional sampling,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Karen Adam , Adam Scholefield , Martin Vetterli

Real-time applications for autonomous operations depend largely on fast and robust vision-based localization systems. Since image processing tasks require processing large amounts of data, the computational resources often limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Gerald Ebmer , Adam Loch , Minh Nhat Vu , Germain Haessig , Roberto Mecca , Markus Vincze , Christian Hartl-Nesic , Andreas Kugi

To time-efficiently and stably acquire the intensity information for phase retrieval under a coherent illumination, we leverage an event-based vision sensor (EVS) that can detect changes in logarithmic intensity at the pixel level with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kaito Hori , Chihiro Tsutake , Keita Takahashi , Toshiaki Fujii

We search for optical transient sources with durations of $\sim 0.1$ to $\sim 1.3$ s using a dataset obtained in the Organized Autotelescopes for Serendipitous Event Survey (OASES) observation campaign. Since the OASES observations were…

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