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Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are the so-called third generation of neural networks which attempt to more closely match the functioning of the biological brain. They inherently encode temporal data, allowing for training with less energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Chethan M. Parameshwara , Simin Li , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Matthew S. Evanusa , Yiannis Aloimonos

With the revolution of generative AI, video-related tasks have been widely studied. However, current state-of-the-art video models still lag behind image models in visual quality and user control over generated content. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Haiming Zhu , Yangyang Xu , Jun Yu , Shengfeng He

Event camera, a novel neuromorphic vision sensor, records data with high temporal resolution and wide dynamic range, offering new possibilities for accurate visual representation in challenging scenarios. However, event data is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Lin Zhu , Ruonan Liu , Xiao Wang , Lizhi Wang , Hua Huang

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient alternative to conventional deep learning by emulating the event-driven processing manner of the brain. Incorporating Transformers with SNNs has shown promise for accuracy. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yuetong Fang , Ziqing Wang , Lingfeng Zhang , Jiahang Cao , Honglei Chen , Renjing Xu

Facial Expression Recognition (FER) is an active research domain that has shown great progress recently, notably thanks to the use of large deep learning models. However, such approaches are particularly energy intensive, which makes their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Sami Barchid , Benjamin Allaert , Amel Aissaoui , José Mennesson , Chaabane Djéraba

Event-based cameras display great potential for a variety of tasks such as high-speed motion detection and navigation in low-light environments where conventional frame-based cameras suffer critically. This is attributed to their high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Chankyu Lee , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Alex Zihao Zhu , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis , Kaushik Roy

Human pose estimation focuses on predicting body keypoints to analyze human motion. Currently, most pose estimation tasks rely on conventional RGB cameras. In contrast, event cameras provide high temporal resolution and low latency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoxian Zhou , Chuanzhi Xu , Langyi Chen , Pengfei Ye , Haodong Chen , Yuk Ying Chung , Qiang Qu

Human visual recognition is a sparse process, where only a few salient visual cues are attended to rather than traversing every detail uniformly. However, most current vision networks follow a dense paradigm, processing every single visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ziteng Gao , Zhan Tong , Limin Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS)-based solutions have recently garnered significant interest across various computer vision tasks, offering notable benefits in terms of dynamic range, temporal resolution, and inference speed. However, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Zhongyang Zhang , Shuyang Cui , Kaidong Chai , Haowen Yu , Subhasis Dasgupta , Upal Mahbub , Tauhidur Rahman

Vision Transformers naturally accommodate sparsity, yet standard tokenization methods confine features to discrete patch grids. This constraint prevents models from fully exploiting sparse regimes, forcing awkward compromises. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Martine Hjelkrem-Tan , Marius Aasan , Gabriel Y. Arteaga , Adín Ramírez Rivera

Event cameras sense brightness changes and output binary asynchronous event streams, attracting increasing attention. Their bio-inspired dynamics align well with spiking neural networks (SNNs), offering a promising energy-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Shuhan Ye , Yi Yu , Qixin Zhang , Chenqi Kong , Qiangqiang Wu , Kun Wang , Xudong Jiang

Event cameras are a paradigm shift in camera technology. Instead of full frames, the sensor captures a sparse set of events caused by intensity changes. Since only the changes are transferred, those cameras are able to capture quick…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Christian Reinbacher , Gottfried Munda , Thomas Pock

Different from traditional video cameras, event cameras capture asynchronous events stream in which each event encodes pixel location, trigger time, and the polarity of the brightness changes. In this paper, we introduce a novel graph-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yijin Li , Han Zhou , Bangbang Yang , Ye Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of action recognition, using event-based cameras. To recognise most gestural actions, often higher temporal precision is required for sampling visual information. Actions are defined by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Rohan Ghosh , Anupam Gupta , Andrei Nakagawa , Alcimar Soares , Nitish Thakor

Building on the success of transformers, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have increasingly been integrated with transformer architectures, leading to spiking transformers that demonstrate promising performance on event-based vision tasks.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Donghyun Lee , Alex Sima , Yuhang Li , Panos Stinis , Priyadarshini Panda

Turbulence mitigation (TM) is highly ill-posed due to the stochastic nature of atmospheric turbulence. Most methods rely on multiple frames recorded by conventional cameras to capture stable patterns in natural scenarios. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoran Zhang , Jian Ding , Yuxing Duan , Haoyue Liu , Gang Chen , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Event cameras are a bio-inspired class of sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel intensity changes. Under fixed illumination conditions in static or low-motion scenes, rigidly mounted event cameras are unable to generate any events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Vincenzo Polizzi , Stephen Yang , Quentin Clark , Jonathan Kelly , Igor Gilitschenski , David B. Lindell

Event-based cameras have recently shown great potential for high-speed motion estimation owing to their ability to capture temporally rich information asynchronously. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their neuro-inspired event-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Spike cameras, as innovative neuromorphic devices, generate continuous spike streams to capture high-speed scenes with lower bandwidth and higher dynamic range than traditional RGB cameras. However, reconstructing high-quality images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Kang Chen , Yajing Zheng , Tiejun Huang , Zhaofei Yu

Event cameras, with their high dynamic range and temporal resolution, are ideally suited for object detection, especially under scenarios with motion blur and challenging lighting conditions. However, while most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziming Wang , Ziling Wang , Huaning Li , Lang Qin , Runhao Jiang , De Ma , Huajin Tang