FS-DVS: A Frequency-Selective Dynamic Visual Sensing Paradigm for Enhancing Information Completeness

Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) exhibit exceptional dynamic range and low power consumption, making them ideal for edge applications in the Internet of Video Things (IoVT). However, their output is often degraded by spurious Background Activity (BA) noise, leading to unnecessary computational overhead. This paper proposes SNNF, a near-sensor BA noise filter that integrates a compact Event-Based Binary Image (EBBI) representation, a parallel memory architecture, and a single-layer Spiking Neural Network (SNN) classifier. Trained on representative DVS data, the SNN distinguishes signal events from noise with an AUC of 0.89 on standard datasets. The binary-array-based EBBI eliminates timestamp dependency, significantly reducing memory footprint. Moreover, the SNN's spike-based computation replaces power-hungry multipliers with simple accumulation logic and minimizes inter-neuron data width, resulting in an extremely hardware-efficient design. FPGA implementation results show that SNNF reduces memory and logic resources to approximately 11% and 40%, respectively of state-of-the-art filters, while achieving a throughput of 29 Mega events per second (Meps). In a 65 nm CMOS ASIC implementation, SNNF achieves 44.4 Meps with an area and power consumption of only ~13% and <5% of the corresponding ANN-based designs. These results demonstrate that SNNF provides an excellent balance between filtering accuracy and hardware efficiency, making it highly suitable for resource-constrained, near-sensor deployment.

Event-based cameras (EBCs) are an attractive sensing modality for surveillance due to their reporting of pixel-level radiance changes with microsecond resolution and high dynamic range, enabling motion extraction while suppressing background. Their asynchronous, sparse output, however, necessitate algorithms that identify targets in event-space without processing full frames. We introduce Frequency Rate Information for Event Space (FRIES), a neuromorphic processing framework that detects periodicity in events, such as rotor rotation and mechanical vibrations, to discriminate and monitor man-made objects. FRIES first applies a time gate to suppress background and noise, then aggregates events into a pixel-wise activity (e.g., density) map and clusters pixels into regions-of-interest (ROIs). A localized spectral analysis is applied to each ROI to extract dominant frequencies used to distinguish structured object signatures from unstructured background and noise. Discriminated targets are visualized using a Resonant Time Surface (RTS), a frequency-selective method that weights events by their phase coherence with the extracted frequencies, rewarding in-sync content and suppressing out-of-sync clutter. We demonstrate FRIES and RTS in a controlled indoor experiment to recover the rotational frequency of a mechanical chopper and drone rotors against a moving background. We further test these methods on an outdoor data to detect a hovering drone against a realistic treeline. These preliminary results establish frequency-domain event processing as a promising front-end for selective surveillance in neuromorphic pipelines and a complementary surveillance modality, leveraging the high temporal resolution to enable spectral discrimination.

Autonomous driving systems rely heavily on robust sensor fusion to perceive complex envi- ronments. Traditional setups using RGB cameras and LiDAR often struggle in high-dynamic- range scenes or high-speed scenarios due to motion blur and latency. Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), or event cameras, offer a paradigm shift by capturing asynchronous brightness changes with microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range. In this paper, we propose an extended architecture of the state-of-the-art InterFuser model, integrating DVS as an additional modality to enhance perception reliability. We introduce a novel token-based fusion strategy that incorporates accumulated event frames into the transformer-based backbone of InterFuser. Our method leverages the complementary nature of RGB, LiDAR, and DVS data. We evaluate our approach on the Car Learning to Act (CARLA) Leaderboard benchmarks, demonstrating that the inclusion of DVS improves the robustness of the driving agent, achieving a competitive Driving Score of 77.2 and a superior Route Completion of 100%. The results indicate that event-based vision is a promising direction for improving safety and performance in adverse lighting and dynamic conditions.