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High-resolution images enable neural networks to learn richer visual representations. However, this improved performance comes at the cost of growing computational complexity, hindering their usage in latency-sensitive applications. As not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xuanyao Chen , Zhijian Liu , Haotian Tang , Li Yi , Hang Zhao , Song Han

Event cameras respond to changes in log-brightness at the millisecond level, making them ideal for optical flow estimation. However, existing datasets from event cameras provide only low frame rate ground truth for optical flow, limiting…

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Accurate 3D object detection from point clouds has become a crucial component in autonomous driving. However, the volumetric representations and the projection methods in previous works fail to establish the relationships between the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Qingdong He , Zhengning Wang , Hao Zeng , Yi Zeng , Yijun Liu

We introduce EDS, a direct monocular visual odometry using events and frames. Our algorithm leverages the event generation model to track the camera motion in the blind time between frames. The method formulates a direct probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Javier Hidalgo-Carrió , Guillermo Gallego , Davide Scaramuzza

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

We develop new efficient online algorithms for detecting transient sparse signals in TEM video sequences, by adopting the recently developed framework for sequential detection jointly with online convex optimization [1]. We cast the problem…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-01 Y. Cao , S. Zhu , Y. Xie , J. Key , J. Kacher , R. R. Unocic , C. M. Rouleau

In recent years, event cameras (DVS - Dynamic Vision Sensors) have been used in vision systems as an alternative or supplement to traditional cameras. They are characterised by high dynamic range, high temporal resolution, low latency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Piotr Wzorek , Tomasz Kryjak

Transformers have been successfully applied to the visual tracking task and significantly promote tracking performance. The self-attention mechanism designed to model long-range dependencies is the key to the success of Transformers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhihong Fu , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Wenrui Cai , Yunhong Wang

Monocular 3D object tracking aims to estimate temporally consistent 3D object poses across video frames, enabling autonomous agents to reason about scene dynamics. However, existing state-of-the-art approaches are fully supervised and rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Nikhil Gosala , B. Ravi Kiran , Senthil Yogamani , Abhinav Valada

3D object detection is crucial for Autonomous Driving (AD) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). However, most 3D detectors prioritize detection accuracy, often overlooking network inference speed in practical applications. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Liye Jia , Runwei Guan , Haocheng Zhao , Qiuchi Zhao , Ka Lok Man , Jeremy Smith , Limin Yu , Yutao Yue

We present Sparse R-CNN, a purely sparse method for object detection in images. Existing works on object detection heavily rely on dense object candidates, such as $k$ anchor boxes pre-defined on all grids of image feature map of size…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Peize Sun , Rufeng Zhang , Yi Jiang , Tao Kong , Chenfeng Xu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Lei Li , Zehuan Yuan , Changhu Wang , Ping Luo

Neuromorphic image sensors produce activity-driven spiking output at every pixel. These low-power consuming imagers which encode visual change information in the form of spikes help reduce computational overhead and realize complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Rohan Ghosh , Siyi Tang , Mahdi Rasouli , Nitish Thakor , Sunil Kukreja

Detection Transformer (DETR) and Deformable DETR have been proposed to eliminate the need for many hand-designed components in object detection while demonstrating good performance as previous complex hand-crafted detectors. However, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Qianyu Zhou , Xiangtai Li , Lu He , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Lizhuang Ma , Dacheng Tao

Event camera is an emerging bio-inspired vision sensors that report per-pixel brightness changes asynchronously. It holds noticeable advantage of high dynamic range, high speed response, and low power budget that enable it to best capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Zhanpeng Shao , Wen Zhou , Wuzhen Wang , Jianyu Yang , Youfu Li

Event cameras record sparse illumination changes with high temporal resolution and high dynamic range. Thanks to their sparse recording and low consumption, they are increasingly used in applications such as AR/VR and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alberto Sabater , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

Fully sparse 3D detection has attracted an increasing interest in the recent years. However, the sparsity of the features in these frameworks challenges the generation of proposals because of the limited diffusion process. In addition, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Tianran Liu , Morteza Mousa Pasandi , Robert Laganiere

Event cameras are advantageous for tasks that require vision sensors with low-latency and sparse output responses. However, the development of deep network algorithms using event cameras has been slow because of the lack of large labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Joachim Ott , Zuowen Wang , Shih-Chii Liu

Semantic segmentation empowers numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving and augmented/mixed reality. These applications often operate on high-resolution images (e.g., 8 megapixels) to capture the fine details. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhijian Liu , Zhuoyang Zhang , Samir Khaki , Shang Yang , Haotian Tang , Chenfeng Xu , Kurt Keutzer , Song Han

Neuromorphic sensors, specifically event cameras, revolutionize visual data acquisition by capturing pixel intensity changes with exceptional dynamic range, minimal latency, and energy efficiency, setting them apart from conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qi Wang , Zhou Xu , Yuming Lin , Jingtao Ye , Hongsheng Li , Guangming Zhu , Syed Afaq Ali Shah , Mohammed Bennamoun , Liang Zhang

Achieving highly accurate and real-time 3D occupancy prediction from cameras is a critical requirement for the safe and practical deployment of autonomous vehicles. While this shift to sparse 3D representations solves the encoding…

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