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Event cameras offer significant advantages over traditional frame-based sensors. These include microsecond temporal resolution, robustness under varying lighting conditions and low power consumption. Nevertheless, the effective processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kamil Jeziorek , Tomasz Kryjak

Event-based cameras asynchronously capture individual visual changes in a scene. This makes them more robust than traditional frame-based cameras to highly dynamic motions and poor illumination. It also means that every measurement in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Jianeng Wang , Jonathan D. Gammell

Fully sparse 3D detectors have recently gained significant attention due to their efficiency in long-range detection. However, sparse 3D detectors extract features only from non-empty voxels, which impairs long-range interactions and causes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Shuai Liu , Mingyue Cui , Boyang Li , Quanmin Liang , Tinghe Hong , Kai Huang , Yunxiao Shan , Kai Huang

Standard frame-based cameras that sample light intensity frames are heavily impacted by motion blur for high-speed motion and fail to perceive scene accurately when the dynamic range is high. Event-based cameras, on the other hand, overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Chankyu Lee , Adarsh Kumar Kosta , Kaushik Roy

Recent advances on 3D object detection heavily rely on how the 3D data are represented, \emph{i.e.}, voxel-based or point-based representation. Many existing high performance 3D detectors are point-based because this structure can better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Jiajun Deng , Shaoshuai Shi , Peiwei Li , Wengang Zhou , Yanyong Zhang , Houqiang Li

Event cameras have higher temporal resolution, and require less storage and bandwidth compared to traditional RGB cameras. However, due to relatively lagging performance of event-based approaches, event cameras have not yet replace…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Muhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan , Abdul Hannan Khan , Andreas Dengel

This paper introduces a self-supervised learning framework designed for pre-training neural networks tailored to dense prediction tasks using event camera data. Our approach utilizes solely event data for training. Transferring achievements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yan Yang , Liyuan Pan , Liu Liu

Video object detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision and has a wide spectrum of applications. Based on deep networks, video object detection is actively studied for pushing the limits of detection speed and accuracy. To reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Xinggang Wang , Zhaojin Huang , Bencheng Liao , Lichao Huang , Yongchao Gong , Chang Huang

This study introduces a novel approach to enhance the spatial-temporal resolution of time-event pixels based on luminance changes captured by event cameras. These cameras present unique challenges due to their low resolution and the sparse,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Waseem Shariff , Joe Lemley , Peter Corcoran

Event cameras, or Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) are novel neuromorphic sensors that capture brightness changes as a continuous stream of "events" rather than traditional intensity frames. Converting sparse events to dense intensity frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yuhan Bao , Lei Sun , Yuqin Ma , Kaiwei Wang

Moving object detection in satellite videos (SVMOD) is a challenging task due to the extremely dim and small target characteristics. Current learning-based methods extract spatio-temporal information from multi-frame dense representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 C. Xiao , W. An , Y. Zhang , Z. Su , M. Li , W. Sheng , M. Pietikäinen , L. Liu

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that mimic retinas to asynchronously report per-pixel intensity changes rather than outputting an actual intensity image at regular intervals. This new paradigm of image sensor offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yusuke Sekikawa , Kosuke Hara , Hideo Saito

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves strong open-vocabulary segmentation, but its ViT-based image encoders dominate inference latency and memory. Existing activation compression methods, such as token merging, reduce the token length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hoai-Chau Tran , Chi H. Nguyen , Duy M. H. Nguyen , Mathias Niepert , Fan Lai , Khoa D. Doan

We present SparseGen, a novel framework for efficient image-to-3D generation, which exhibits low input-view bias while being significantly faster. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on dense volumetric grids, triplanes, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhiyuan Xu , Jiuming Liu , Yuxin Chen , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Chenfeng Xu , Chensheng Peng

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel brightness changes.The high-temporal resolution and asynchronicity of event cameras offer great potential for estimating robot motion states. Recent works…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zhixiang Wang , Xudong Li , Yizhai Zhang , Panfeng Huang

As an alternative sensing paradigm, dynamic vision sensors (DVS) have been recently explored to tackle scenarios where conventional sensors result in high data rate and processing time. This paper presents a hybrid event-frame approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Vivek Mohan , Deepak Singla , Tarun Pulluri , Andres Ussa , Pradeep Kumar Gopalakrishnan , Pao-Sheng Sun , Bharath Ramesh , Arindam Basu

We present a novel method for efficiently producing semi-dense matches across images. Previous detector-free matcher LoFTR has shown remarkable matching capability in handling large-viewpoint change and texture-poor scenarios but suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yifan Wang , Xingyi He , Sida Peng , Dongli Tan , Xiaowei Zhou

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are now the de facto solution for computer vision problems thanks to their impressive results and ease of learning. These networks are composed of layers of connected units called artificial neurons,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Loïc Cordone , Benoît Miramond , Sonia Ferrante

For bandwidth-constrained multimedia applications, simultaneously achieving ultra-low bitrate human video compression and accurate vertex prediction remains a critical challenge, as it demands the harmonization of dynamic motion modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Bolin Chen , Ru-Ling Liao , Yan Ye , Jie Chen , Shanzhi Yin , Xinrui Ju , Shiqi Wang , Yibo Fan

Event cameras are bio-inspired, motion-activated sensors that demonstrate substantial potential in handling challenging situations, such as motion blur and high-dynamic range. In this paper, we proposed EVI-SAM to tackle the problem of 6…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Weipeng Guan , Peiyu Chen , Huibin Zhao , Yu Wang , Peng Lu