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Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that perform well in challenging illumination conditions and have high temporal resolution. However, their concept is fundamentally different from traditional frame-based cameras. The pixels of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Xin Peng , Ling Gao , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

State-of-the-art solutions for Shape-from-Polarization (SfP) suffer from a speed-resolution tradeoff: they either sacrifice the number of polarization angles measured or necessitate lengthy acquisition times due to framerate constraints,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Manasi Muglikar , Leonard Bauersfeld , Diederik Paul Moeys , Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that capture the per-pixel intensity changes asynchronously and produce event streams encoding the time, pixel position, and polarity (sign) of the intensity changes. Event cameras possess a myriad of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Xu Zheng , Yexin Liu , Yunfan Lu , Tongyan Hua , Tianbo Pan , Weiming Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Lin Wang

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

Event cameras capture changes of illumination in the observed scene rather than accumulating light to create images. Thus, they allow for applications under high-speed motion and complex lighting conditions, where traditional framebased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

Event cameras also known as neuromorphic sensors are relatively a new technology with some privilege over the RGB cameras. The most important one is their difference in capturing the light changes in the environment, each pixel changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani , Waseem Shariff , Cian Ryan , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

This paper solves the Sparse Photometric stereo through Lighting Interpolation and Normal Estimation using a generative Network (SPLINE-Net). SPLINE-Net contains a lighting interpolation network to generate dense lighting observations given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Qian Zheng , Yiming Jia , Boxin Shi , Xudong Jiang , Ling-Yu Duan , Alex C. Kot

Event cameras are biologically-inspired sensors that gather the temporal evolution of the scene. They capture pixel-wise brightness variations and output a corresponding stream of asynchronous events. Despite having multiple advantages with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Stefano Pini , Guido Borghi , Roberto Vezzani

Universal Photometric Stereo is a promising approach for recovering surface normals without strict lighting assumptions. However, it struggles when multi-illumination cues are unreliable, such as under biased lighting or in shadows or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 King-Man Tam , Satoshi Ikehata , Yuta Asano , Zhaoyi An , Rei Kawakami

Accurate depth estimation under adverse night conditions has practical impact and applications, such as on autonomous driving and rescue robots. In this work, we studied monocular depth estimation at night time in which various adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Jianing Qiu , Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Benny Lo

State-of-the-art supervised stereo matching methods have achieved remarkable performance on various benchmarks. However, their generalization to real-world scenarios remains challenging due to the scarcity of annotated real-world stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xianqi Wang , Hao Yang , Gangwei Xu , Junda Cheng , Min Lin , Yong Deng , Jinliang Zang , Yurui Chen , Xin Yang

Compared to regular cameras, Dynamic Vision Sensors or Event Cameras can output compact visual data based on a change in the intensity in each pixel location asynchronously. In this paper, we study the application of current image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Masoud Dayani Najafabadi , Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh

Estimating shape and appearance of a three dimensional object from a given set of images is a classic research topic that is still actively pursued. Among the various techniques available, PS is distinguished by the assumption that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Georg Radow , Laurent Hoeltgen , Yvain Quéau , Michael Breuß

Traditional multi-view photometric stereo (MVPS) methods are often composed of multiple disjoint stages, resulting in noticeable accumulated errors. In this paper, we present a neural inverse rendering method for MVPS based on implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Wenqi Yang , Guanying Chen , Chaofeng Chen , Zhenfang Chen , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Active stereo cameras that recover depth from structured light captures have become a cornerstone sensor modality for 3D scene reconstruction and understanding tasks across application domains. Existing active stereo cameras project a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

Neuromorphic, or event, cameras represent a transformation in the classical approach to visual sensing encodes detected instantaneous per-pixel illumination changes into an asynchronous stream of event packets. Their novelty compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Claudio Cimarelli , Jose Andres Millan-Romera , Holger Voos , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez

This paper presents an autonomous method to address challenges arising from severe lighting conditions in machine vision applications that use event cameras. To manage these conditions, the research explores the built in potential of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani , Waseem Shariff , Cian Ryan , Joseph Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Event cameras are rapidly emerging as powerful vision sensors for 3D reconstruction, uniquely capable of asynchronously capturing per-pixel brightness changes. Compared to traditional frame-based cameras, event cameras produce sparse yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Chuanzhi Xu , Haoxian Zhou , Langyi Chen , Haodong Chen , Zeke Zexi Hu , Zhicheng Lu , Ying Zhou , Vera Chung , Qiang Qu , Weidong Cai

Event cameras have the potential to revolutionize the field of robot vision, particularly in areas like stereo disparity estimation, owing to their high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Many studies use deep learning for event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junjie Jiang , Hao Zhuang , Xinjie Huang , Delei Kong , Zheng Fang

Event sensors output a stream of asynchronous brightness changes (called ``events'') at a very high temporal rate. Previous works on recovering the lost intensity information from the event sensor data have heavily relied on the event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Prasan A Shedligeri , Kaushik Mitra