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In this work, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised learning for event cameras that learns motion information from only the event stream. In particular, we propose an input representation of the events in the form of a discretized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Alex Zihao Zhu , Liangzhe Yuan , Kenneth Chaney , Kostas Daniilidis

By leveraging the blur-noise trade-off, imaging with non-uniform exposures largely extends the image acquisition flexibility in harsh environments. However, the limitation of conventional cameras in perceiving intra-frame dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mingyuan Lin , Jian Liu , Chi Zhang , Zibo Zhao , Chu He , Lei Yu

A near-optimal reconstruction of the radiance of a High Dynamic Range scene from an exposure stack can be obtained by modeling the camera noise distribution. The latent radiance is then estimated using Maximum Likelihood Estimation. But…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-18 Param Hanji , Fangcheng Zhong , Rafal K. Mantiuk

Ensemble learning is a standard approach to building machine learning systems that capture complex phenomena in real-world data. An important aspect of these systems is the complete and valid quantification of model uncertainty. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jeremiah Zhe Liu , John Paisley , Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou , Brent Coull

We introduce N-ImageNet, a large-scale dataset targeted for robust, fine-grained object recognition with event cameras. The dataset is collected using programmable hardware in which an event camera consistently moves around a monitor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Junho Kim , Jaehyeok Bae , Gangin Park , Dongsu Zhang , Young Min Kim

Pose estimation and tracking of objects is a fundamental application in 3D vision. Event cameras possess remarkable attributes such as high dynamic range, low latency, and resilience against motion blur, which enables them to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zibin Liu , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu , Laurent Kneip

This paper addresses the challenging problem of category-level pose estimation. Current state-of-the-art methods for this task face challenges when dealing with symmetric objects and when attempting to generalize to new environments solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Takuya Ikeda , Sergey Zakharov , Tianyi Ko , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Robert Lee , Katherine Liu , Rares Ambrus , Koichi Nishiwaki

To help meet the increasing need for dynamic vision sensor (DVS) event camera data, this paper proposes the v2e toolbox that generates realistic synthetic DVS events from intensity frames. It also clarifies incorrect claims about DVS motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yuhuang Hu , Shih-Chii Liu , Tobi Delbruck

Event camera, a bio-inspired asynchronous triggered camera, offers promising prospects for fusion with frame-based cameras owing to its low latency and high dynamic range. However, calibrating stereo vision systems that incorporate both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shaoan Wang , Zhanhua Xin , Yaoqing Hu , Dongyue Li , Mingzhu Zhu , Junzhi Yu

Despite the success of neural networks in computer vision tasks, digital 'neurons' are a very loose approximation of biological neurons. Today's learning approaches are designed to function on digital devices with digital data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Celyn Walters , Simon Hadfield

Event cameras are an interesting visual exteroceptive sensor that reacts to brightness changes rather than integrating absolute image intensities. Owing to this design, the sensor exhibits strong performance in situations of challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Runze Yuan , Tao Liu , Zijia Dai , Yi-Fan Zuo , Laurent Kneip

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) is able to make flexible conditional image generation from prior noise to real data, by introducing an independent noise-aware classifier to provide conditional gradient guidance at each time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Shengming Li , Guangcong Zheng , Hui Wang , Taiping Yao , Yang Chen , Shoudong Ding , Xi Li

We focus on a very challenging task: imaging at nighttime dynamic scenes. Most previous methods rely on the low-light enhancement of a conventional RGB camera. However, they would inevitably face a dilemma between the long exposure time of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Haoyue Liu , Shihan Peng , Lin Zhu , Yi Chang , Hanyu Zhou , Luxin Yan

Noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) is a statistically consistent method for learning unnormalized probabilistic models. It has been empirically observed that the choice of the noise distribution is crucial for NCE's performance. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Bingbin Liu , Elan Rosenfeld , Pradeep Ravikumar , Andrej Risteski

In this paper, we focus on activating only a few sensors, among many available, to estimate the state of a stochastic process of interest. This problem is important in applications such as target tracking and simultaneous localization and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Vasileios Tzoumas , Nikolay A. Atanasov , Ali Jadbabaie , George J. Pappas

Diffusion models are a class of probabilistic generative models that have been widely used as a prior for image processing tasks like text conditional generation and inpainting. We demonstrate that these models can be adapted to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Marc Finzi , Anudhyan Boral , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Fei Sha , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

Training energy-based models (EBMs) with noise-contrastive estimation (NCE) is theoretically feasible but practically challenging. Effective learning requires the noise distribution to be approximately similar to the target distribution,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Nathaniel Xu

We present a simple comparative framework for testing and developing uncertainty modeling in uncertain marching cubes implementations. The selection of a model to represent the probability distribution of uncertain values directly…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Robert Sisneros , Tushar M. Athawale , David Pugmire , Kenneth Moreland

Errors in measurements are key to weighting the value of data, but are often neglected in Machine Learning (ML). We show how Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are able to learn about the context and patterns of signal and noise, leading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , L. Raul Abramo , Nina S. Hirata

We propose a differentiable nonlinear least squares framework to account for uncertainty in relative pose estimation from feature correspondences. Specifically, we introduce a symmetric version of the probabilistic normal epipolar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Dominik Muhle , Lukas Koestler , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Daniel Cremers