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Vision in adverse weather conditions, whether it be snow, rain, or fog is challenging. In these scenarios, scattering and attenuation severly degrades image quality. Handling such inclement weather conditions, however, is essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Andrea Ramazzina , Mario Bijelic , Stefanie Walz , Alessandro Sanvito , Dominik Scheuble , Felix Heide

Recently, self-driving vehicles have been introduced with several automated features including lane-keep assistance, queuing assistance in traffic-jam, parking assistance and crash avoidance. These self-driving vehicles and intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mourad A. Kenk , Mahmoud Hassaballah

The event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor. When the brightness change exceeds the preset threshold, the sensor generates events asynchronously. The number of valid events directly affects the performance of event-based tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xijie Xiang , Lin Zhu , Jianing Li , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Focus control (FC) is crucial for cameras to capture sharp images in challenging real-world scenarios. The autofocus (AF) facilitates the FC by automatically adjusting the focus settings. However, due to the lack of effective AF methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shijie Lin , Yinqiang Zhang , Lei Yu , Bin Zhou , Xiaowei Luo , Jia Pan

Tracking and acquiring simultaneous optical images of randomly moving targets obscured by scattering media remains a challenging problem of importance to many applications that require precise object localization and identification. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ning Zhang , Timothy Shea , Arto Nurmikko

Event cameras, also known as dynamic vision sensors, are an emerging modality for measuring fast dynamics asynchronously. Event cameras capture changes of log-intensity over time as a stream of 'events' and generally cannot measure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Dekel Galor , Amit Kohli , Jacob L Yates , Laura Waller

This paper addresses the novel challenge of ``rewinding'' time from a single captured image to recover the fleeting moments missed just before the shutter button is pressed. This problem poses a significant challenge in computer vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jingxi Chen , Brandon Y. Feng , Haoming Cai , Mingyang Xie , Christopher Metzler , Cornelia Fermuller , Yiannis Aloimonos

Event cameras offer high temporal resolution and power efficiency, making them well-suited for edge AI applications. However, their high event rates present challenges for data transmission and processing. Subsampling methods provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hesam Araghi , Jan van Gemert , Nergis Tomen

The performance of state-of-the-art object detectors degrades significantly under adverse weather, causing a safety-critical domain shift problem for autonomous vehicles. Recent efforts address this problem by relying on synthetic data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hamed Khatounabadi , Xiaohu Lu , Hayder Radha

Defocus blur arises in images that are captured with a shallow depth of field due to the use of a wide aperture. Correcting defocus blur is challenging because the blur is spatially varying and difficult to estimate. We propose an effective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Abdullah Abuolaim , Michael S. Brown

This study introduces a novel approach to enhance the spatial-temporal resolution of time-event pixels based on luminance changes captured by event cameras. These cameras present unique challenges due to their low resolution and the sparse,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Waseem Shariff , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Image defogging is a technique used extensively for enhancing visual quality of images in bad weather condition. Even though defogging algorithms have been well studied, defogging performance is degraded by demosaicking artifacts and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Y. J. Lee , K. Hirakawa , T. Q. Nguyen

Event-based visual odometry is a specific branch of visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques, which aims at solving tracking and mapping subproblems (typically in parallel), by exploiting the special working principles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Xiuyuan Lu , Shaojie Shen , Guillermo Gallego , Yi Zhou

Event cameras respond to brightness changes in the scene asynchronously and independently for every pixel. Due to the properties, these cameras have distinct features: high dynamic range (HDR), high temporal resolution, and low power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jongwan Kim , DongJin Lee , Byunggook Na , Seongsik Park , Jeonghee Jo , Sungroh Yoon

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras. They operate asynchronously, sampling the scene at microsecond resolution and producing a stream of brightness changes. This unconventional output has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

Bio-inspired neuromorphic cameras sense illumination changes on a per-pixel basis and generate spatiotemporal streaming events within microseconds in response, offering visual information with high temporal resolution over a high dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-22 Pei Zhang , Shuo Zhu , Edmund Y. Lam

Frame-based cameras with extended exposure times often produce perceptible visual blurring and information loss between frames, significantly degrading video quality. To address this challenge, we introduce EVDI++, a unified self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chi Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Chenxu Jiang , Gui-Song Xia , Lei Yu

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is emerging as a promising technology for effective image transmission. However, most existing approaches focus on transmitting clear images, overlooking real-world challenges such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Lei Yu , Guanding Yu

In this work, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised learning for event cameras that learns motion information from only the event stream. In particular, we propose an input representation of the events in the form of a discretized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

Event camera sensors are bio-inspired sensors which asynchronously capture per-pixel brightness changes and output a stream of events encoding the polarity, location and time of these changes. These systems are witnessing rapid advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Aupendu Kar , Vishnu Raj , Guan-Ming Su