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Event cameras offer unparalleled advantages for real-time perception in dynamic environments, thanks to the microsecond-level temporal resolution and asynchronous operation. Existing event detectors, however, are limited by fixed-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dongyue Lu , Lingdong Kong , Gim Hee Lee , Camille Simon Chane , Wei Tsang Ooi

Object detection is crucial in various cutting-edge applications, such as autonomous vehicles and advanced robotics systems, primarily relying on data from conventional frame-based RGB sensors. However, these sensors often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Diego A. Silva , Kamilya Smagulova , Ahmed Elsheikh , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed M. Eltawil

In current research, Bird's-Eye-View (BEV)-based transformers are increasingly utilized for multi-camera 3D object detection. Traditional models often employ random queries as anchors, optimizing them successively. Recent advancements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Marius Dähling , Sebastian Krebs , J. Marius Zöllner

Recently, virtual/pseudo-point-based 3D object detection that seamlessly fuses RGB images and LiDAR data by depth completion has gained great attention. However, virtual points generated from an image are very dense, introducing a huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Hai Wu , Chenglu Wen , Shaoshuai Shi , Xin Li , Cheng Wang

3D object detection has been widely studied due to its potential applicability to many promising areas such as robotics and augmented reality. Yet, the sparse nature of the 3D data poses unique challenges to this task. Most notably, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 JunYoung Gwak , Christopher Choy , Silvio Savarese

Event cameras continue to attract interest due to desirable characteristics such as high dynamic range, low latency, virtually no motion blur, and high energy efficiency. One of the potential applications that would benefit from these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

We present \textit{VoxelKP}, a novel fully sparse network architecture tailored for human keypoint estimation in LiDAR data. The key challenge is that objects are distributed sparsely in 3D space, while human keypoint detection requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jian Shi , Peter Wonka

Object detection in event streams has emerged as a cutting-edge research area, demonstrating superior performance in low-light conditions, scenarios with motion blur, and rapid movements. Current detectors leverage spiking neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiao Wang , Yu Jin , Wentao Wu , Wei Zhang , Lin Zhu , Bo Jiang , Yonghong Tian

Event-based camera has emerged as a promising paradigm for robot perception, offering advantages with high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and robustness to motion blur. However, existing deep learning-based event processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Shenqi Wang , Guangzhi Tang

Event cameras offer the exciting possibility of tracking the camera's pose during high-speed motion and in adverse lighting conditions. Despite this promise, existing event-based monocular visual odometry (VO) approaches demonstrate limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Simon Klenk , Marvin Motzet , Lukas Koestler , Daniel Cremers

Event-based vision revolutionizes traditional image sensing by capturing asynchronous intensity variations rather than static frames, enabling ultrafast temporal resolution, sparse data encoding, and enhanced motion perception. While this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Joey Mulé , Dhandeep Challagundla , Rachit Saini , Riadul Islam

3D object tracking in point clouds is still a challenging problem due to the sparsity of LiDAR points in dynamic environments. In this work, we propose a Siamese voxel-to-BEV tracker, which can significantly improve the tracking performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Le Hui , Lingpeng Wang , Mingmei Cheng , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Eye-tracking technology is integral to numerous consumer electronics applications, particularly in the realm of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR). These applications demand solutions that excel in three crucial aspects: low-latency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Baoheng Zhang , Yizhao Gao , Jingyuan Li , Hayden Kwok-Hay So

When a camera travels across a 3D world, only a fraction of pixel value changes; an event-based camera observes the change as sparse events. How can we utilize sparse events for efficient recovery of the camera pose? We show that we can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Mana Masuda , Yusuke Sekikawa , Hideo Saito

3D object detection is essential for autonomous systems, enabling precise localization and dimension estimation. While LiDAR and RGB cameras are widely used, their fixed frame rates create perception gaps in high-speed scenarios. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jae-Young Kang , Hoonhee Cho , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Non-uniformed 3D sparse data, e.g., point clouds or voxels in different spatial positions, make contribution to the task of 3D object detection in different ways. Existing basic components in sparse convolutional networks (Sparse CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun , Jiaya Jia

Existing pseudo label generation methods for point weakly supervised object detection are inadequate in low data volume and dense object detection tasks. We consider the generation of weakly supervised pseudo labels as the model's sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Chuyang Shang , Tian Ma , Wanzhu Ren , Yuancheng Li , Jiayi Yang

Accurate 3D object detection in large-scale outdoor scenes, characterized by considerable variations in object scales, necessitates features rich in both long-range and fine-grained information. While recent detectors have utilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jianan Li , Shaocong Dong , Lihe Ding , Tingfa Xu

Detecting objects reliably under extreme low-light conditions is an open problem in computer vision, with practical urgency in applications ranging from nighttime surveillance to search-and-rescue robotics. Conventional RGB cameras degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Raju Imandi , Chethana B , Bharatesh Chakravarthi , Yong-Guk Kim , Manipriya S , Pavan Kumar B N

Recent advances in sparse voxel representations have significantly improved the quality of 3D content generation, enabling high-resolution modeling with fine-grained geometry. However, existing frameworks suffer from severe computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yiwen Chen , Zhihao Li , Yikai Wang , Hu Zhang , Qin Li , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin