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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

Keypoint detection and tracking in traditional image frames are often compromised by image quality issues such as motion blur and extreme lighting conditions. Event cameras offer potential solutions to these challenges by virtue of their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiangyuan Wang , Kuangyi Chen , Wen Yang , Lei Yu , Yannan Xing , Huai Yu

Event-based imaging is a neurmorphic detection technique whereby an array of pixels detects a positive or negative change in light intensity at each pixel, and is hence particularly well suited to detecting motion. As compared to standard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-16 Yugang Ren , Enrique Benedetto , Harry Borrill , Yelizaveta Savchuk , Molly Message , Katie O'Flynn , Muddassar Rashid , James Millen

Forecasting a typical object's future motion is a critical task for interpreting and interacting with dynamic environments in computer vision. Event-based sensors, which could capture changes in the scene with exceptional temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Song Wu , Zhiyu Zhu , Junhui Hou , Guangming Shi , Jinjian Wu

Event cameras, inspired by biological vision, are asynchronous sensors that detect changes in brightness, offering notable advantages in environments characterized by high-speed motion, low lighting, or wide dynamic range. These distinctive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jiaqiang Zhang , Xianjia Yu , Ha Sier , Haizhou Zhang , Tomi Westerlund

Event cameras contain emerging, neuromorphic vision sensors that capture local light intensity changes at each pixel, generating a stream of asynchronous events. This way of acquiring visual information constitutes a departure from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Cian Ryan , Brian O Sullivan , Amr Elrasad , Joe Lemley , Paul Kielty , Christoph Posch , Etienne Perot

With the increase in use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)/drones, it is important to detect and identify causes of failure in real time for proper recovery from a potential crash-like scenario or post incident forensics analysis. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-08 Vidyasagar Sadhu , Saman Zonouz , Dario Pompili

This paper discusses the challenges of detecting and categorizing small drones with radar automatic target recognition (ATR) technology. The authors suggest integrating ATR capabilities into drone detection radar systems to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

Separation provision and collision avoidance to avoid other air traffic are fundamental components of the layered conflict management system to ensure safe and efficient operations. Pilots have visual-based separation responsibilities to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Ngaire Underhill , Evan Maki , Bilal Gill , Andrew Weinert

Drone racing is a recreational sport in which the goal is to pass through a sequence of gates in a minimum amount of time while avoiding collisions. In autonomous drone racing, one must accomplish this task by flying fully autonomously in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Theo Morales , Andriy Sarabakha , Erdal Kayacan

The neuromorphic event cameras, which capture the optical changes of a scene, have drawn increasing attention due to their high speed and low power consumption. However, the event data are noisy, sparse, and nonuniform in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Chang Liu , Xiaojuan Qi , Edmund Lam , Ngai Wong

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

In the incoming years, the low-aerial space will be crowded by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which will be providing different services. In this expected context, an emerging problem is to detect and track unauthorized or malicious…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Anna Guerra , Davide Dardari , Petar M. Djuric

Monitoring large areas is presently feasible with high resolution drone cameras, as opposed to time-consuming and expensive ground surveys. In this work we reveal for the first time, the potential of using a state-of-the-art change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Yura Zharkovsky , Ovadya Menadeva

The Bird-Eye-View (BEV) is one of the most widely-used scene representations for visual perception in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) due to its well suited compatibility to downstream tasks. For the enhanced safety of AVs, modeling perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Asen Nachkov , Martin Danelljan , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Rapid and reliable incident detection is critical for reducing crash-related fatalities, injuries, and congestion. However, conventional methods, such as closed-circuit television, dashcam footage, and sensor-based detection, separate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Bai Li , Achilleas Kourtellis , Rong Cao , Joseph Post , Brian Porter , Yu Zhang

Event cameras provide a number of benefits over traditional cameras, such as the ability to track incredibly fast motions, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. However, their application into computer vision problems, many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Ziyun Wang , Kaung Khant , Kostas Daniilidis

Despite the success of neural networks in computer vision tasks, digital 'neurons' are a very loose approximation of biological neurons. Today's learning approaches are designed to function on digital devices with digital data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Collecting overhead imagery using an event camera is desirable due to the energy efficiency of the image sensor compared to standard cameras. However, event cameras complicate downstream image processing, especially for complex tasks such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Darryl Hannan , Ragib Arnab , Gavin Parpart , Garrett T. Kenyon , Edward Kim , Yijing Watkins

In this work, we present optical space imaging using an unconventional yet promising class of imaging devices known as neuromorphic event-based sensors. These devices, which are modeled on the human retina, do not operate with frames, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Saeed Afshar , Andrew P Nicholson , Andre van Schaik , Gregory Cohen