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Digital camera pipelines employ color constancy methods to estimate an unknown scene illuminant, in order to re-illuminate images as if they were acquired under an achromatic light source. Fully-supervised learning approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Steven McDonagh , Sarah Parisot , Fengwei Zhou , Xing Zhang , Ales Leonardis , Zhenguo Li , Gregory Slabaugh

In contrast to traditional cameras, whose pixels have a common exposure time, event-based cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors whose pixels work independently and asynchronously output intensity changes (called "events"), with microsecond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Timo Stoffregen , Guillermo Gallego , Tom Drummond , Lindsay Kleeman , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper demonstrates a system comprised of infrared beacons and a camera equipped with an optical band-pass filter. Our system can reliably detect and identify individual beacons at 100m distance regardless of lighting conditions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Alexandru Kampmann , Michael Lamberti , Nikola Petrovic , Stefan Kowalewski , Bassam Alrifaee

Researchers in natural science need reliable methods for quantifying animal behavior. Recently, numerous computer vision methods emerged to automate the process. However, observing wild species at remote locations remains a challenging task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Friedhelm Hamann , Suman Ghosh , Ignacio Juarez Martinez , Tom Hart , Alex Kacelnik , Guillermo Gallego

With the rise of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), ensuring reliable object detection in all weather conditions is crucial for safety and efficiency. Adverse weather like snow, rain, and fog presents major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Shivank Garg , Abhishek Baghel , Amit Agarwal , Durga Toshniwal

Event-based cameras can overpass frame-based cameras limitations for important tasks such as high-speed motion detection during self-driving cars navigation in low illumination conditions. The event cameras' high temporal resolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Haixin Sun , Minh-Quan Dao , Vincent Fremont

Modern computer vision has moved beyond the domain of internet photo collections and into the physical world, guiding camera-equipped robots and autonomous cars through unstructured environments. To enable these embodied agents to interact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Igor Vasiljevic

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) often fail to maintain their performance when they confront new test domains, which is known as the problem of domain shift. Recent studies suggest that one of the main causes of this problem is CNNs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Hyeonseob Nam , HyunJae Lee , Jongchan Park , Wonjun Yoon , Donggeun Yoo

We address the issue of domain gap when making use of synthetic data to train a scene-specific object detector and pose estimator. While previous works have shown that the constraints of learning a scene-specific model can be leveraged to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Rawal Khirodkar , Donghyun Yoo , Kris M. Kitani

This paper investigates trajectory prediction for robotics, to improve the interaction of robots with moving targets, such as catching a bouncing ball. Unexpected, highly-non-linear trajectories cannot easily be predicted with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Marco Monforte , Ander Arriandiaga , Arren Glover , Chiara Bartolozzi

Dynamic vision sensors, also known as event cameras, are rapidly rising in popularity for robotic and computer vision tasks due to their sparse activation and high-temporal resolution. Event cameras have been used in robotic navigation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Adam D. Hines , Gokul B. Nair , Nicolás Marticorena , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

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

In recent years, object detection has shown impressive results using supervised deep learning, but it remains challenging in a cross-domain environment. The variations of illumination, style, scale, and appearance in different domains can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Rongchang Xie , Fei Yu , Jiachao Wang , Yizhou Wang , Li Zhang

Event cameras are emerging imaging technology that offers advantages over conventional frame-based imaging sensors in dynamic range and sensing speed. Complementing the rich texture and color perception of traditional image frames, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Peiqi Duan , Boyu Li , Yixin Yang , Hanyue Lou , Minggui Teng , Yi Ma , Boxin Shi

Event cameras asynchronously capture pixel-level intensity changes with extremely low latency. They are increasingly used in conjunction with RGB cameras for a wide range of vision-related applications. However, a major challenge in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Lei Yu , Guanding Yu

Event cameras or dynamic vision sensors (DVS) record asynchronous response to brightness changes instead of conventional intensity frames, and feature ultra-high sensitivity at low bandwidth. The new mechanism demonstrates great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Bo Zhang , Yuqi Han , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Understanding and mitigating flicker effects caused by rapid variations in light intensity is critical for enhancing the performance of event cameras in diverse environments. This paper introduces an innovative autonomous mechanism for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani , Waseem Shariff , Cian Ryan , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

In autonomous and mobile robotics, a principal challenge is resilient real-time environmental perception, particularly in situations characterized by unknown and dynamic elements, as exemplified in the context of autonomous drone racing.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Zhongzheng Qiao , Xuan Huy Pham , Savitha Ramasamy , Xudong Jiang , Erdal Kayacan , Andriy Sarabakha

Accurate camera localization is an essential part of tracking systems. However, localization results are greatly affected by illumination. Including data collected under various lighting conditions can improve the robustness of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sota Shoman , Tomohiro Mashita , Alexander Plopski , Photchara Ratsamee , Yuki Uranishi , Haruo Takemura

Domain Adaptation is a technique to address the lack of massive amounts of labeled data in unseen environments. Unsupervised domain adaptation is proposed to adapt a model to new modalities using solely labeled source data and unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Thong Vo , Naimul Khan