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The saliency ranking task is recently proposed to study the visual behavior that humans would typically shift their attention over different objects of a scene based on their degrees of saliency. Existing approaches focus on learning either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Lin Du , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2) shows excellent performance in video object segmentation tasks; however, the heavy computational burden hinders its application in real-time video processing. Although there have been efforts to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jing Zhang , Zhikai Li , Xuewen Liu , Qingyi Gu

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

Semantic segmentation is an important computer vision task, particularly for scene understanding and navigation of autonomous vehicles and UAVs. Several variations of deep neural network architectures have been designed to tackle this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Dalia Hareb , Jean Martinet

We consider two biologically plausible structures, the Spiking Neural Network (SNN) and the self-attention mechanism. The former offers an energy-efficient and event-driven paradigm for deep learning, while the latter has the ability to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Zhaokun Zhou , Yuesheng Zhu , Chao He , Yaowei Wang , Shuicheng Yan , Yonghong Tian , Li Yuan

Leveraging the high temporal resolution and dynamic range, object detection with event cameras can enhance the performance and safety of automotive and robotics applications in real-world scenarios. However, processing sparse event data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shenqi Wang , Yingfu Xu , Amirreza Yousefzadeh , Sherif Eissa , Henk Corporaal , Federico Corradi , Guangzhi Tang

The brain has computational capabilities that surpass those of modern systems, being able to solve complex problems efficiently in a simple way. Neuromorphic engineering aims to mimic biology in order to develop new systems capable of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Daniel Casanueva-Morato , Alvaro Ayuso-Martinez , Juan P. Dominguez-Morales , Angel Jimenez-Fernandez , Gabriel Jimenez-Moreno

Standard frame-based cameras that sample light intensity frames are heavily impacted by motion blur for high-speed motion and fail to perceive scene accurately when the dynamic range is high. Event-based cameras, on the other hand, overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Chankyu Lee , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Humans can naturally and effectively find salient regions in complex scenes. Motivated by this observation, attention mechanisms were introduced into computer vision with the aim of imitating this aspect of the human visual system. Such an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Meng-Hao Guo , Tian-Xing Xu , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Zheng-Ning Liu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Song-Hai Zhang , Ralph R. Martin , Ming-Ming Cheng , Shi-Min Hu

Tactile sensing represents a crucial technique that can enhance the performance of robotic manipulators in various tasks. This work presents a novel bioinspired neuromorphic vision-based tactile sensor that uses an event-based camera to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Omar Faris , Mohammad I. Awad , Murana A. Awad , Yahya Zweiri , Kinda Khalaf

As intelligent systems become increasingly important in our daily lives, new ways of interaction are needed. Classical user interfaces pose issues for the physically impaired and are partially not practical or convenient. Gesture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Lea Steffen , Thomas Trapp , Arne Roennau , Rüdiger Dillmann

Attention is the brain's ability to selectively focus on a few specific aspects while ignoring irrelevant ones. This biological principle inspired the attention mechanism in modern Transformers. Transformers now underpin large language…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kallol Mondal , Ankush Kumar

Neuromorphic computing is a new paradigm for design of both the computing hardware and algorithms inspired by biological neural networks. The event-based nature and the inherent parallelism make neuromorphic computing a promising paradigm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Sebastian Glatz , Julien N. P. Martel , Raphaela Kreiser , Ning Qiao , Yulia Sandamirskaya

Benefiting from the event-driven and sparse spiking characteristics of the brain, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are becoming an energy-efficient alternative to artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, the performance gap between SNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Man Yao , Guangshe Zhao , Hengyu Zhang , Yifan Hu , Lei Deng , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

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

Event cameras, inspired by biological vision systems, provide a natural and data efficient representation of visual information. Visual information is acquired in the form of events that are triggered by local brightness changes. Each pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Cheng Gu , Erik Learned-Miller , Daniel Sheldon , Guillermo Gallego , Pia Bideau

Event-based visual odometry has recently gained attention for its high accuracy and real-time performance in fast-motion systems. Unlike traditional synchronous estimators that rely on constant-frequency (zero-order) triggers, event-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chaoran Xiong , Litao Wei , Kehui Ma , Zhen Sun , Yan Xiang , Zihan Nan , Trieu-Kien Truong , Ling Pei

The growing interest in brain-inspired computational models arises from the remarkable problem-solving efficiency of the human brain. Action recognition, a complex task in computational neuroscience, has received significant attention due…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Alireza Nadafian , Milad Mozafari , Timothée Masquelier , Mohammad Ganjtabesh

Event camera-based driver monitoring is emerging as a pivotal area of research, driven by its significant advantages such as rapid response, low latency, power efficiency, enhanced privacy, and prevention of undersampling. Effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Waseem Shariff , Paul Kielty , Joseph Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Event cameras, characterized by high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, low power consumption, and high pixel bandwidth, offer unique capabilities for object detection in specialized contexts. Despite these advantages, the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yimeng Fan , Wei Zhang , Changsong Liu , Mingyang Li , Wenrui Lu