Event-Based Object Detection

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Event-based object detection studies how to identify and localize objects from asynchronous brightness-change signals, which can capture fast motion with fine timing and little redundant data. Methods convert events into time surfaces, voxel or continuous-time representations, or process them directly with recurrent, sparse-attention, state-space, and spiking neural networks; RGB-event fusion is also used when appearance cues help. Automotive benchmarks such as Gen1 and 1Mpx support comparison, while pedestrian, drone, and small-object settings test performance under motion, low light, and sparse target evidence. A central challenge is balancing accuracy with latency and energy use while improving robustness across sensors and scenes, with benchmark coverage and real-world evaluation still important open issues.

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  1. RGB--Event Object Detection Across Operating Frequencies via Reliability-Supervised Routing and Asymmetric-Resolution Fusion

    Oct 19, 2026Peijun Shi, Jiannan Zhao, Xiujin Zhu +3RGB-Event Sensor FusionReliability-Aware Multimodal Fusion

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. · School of Electrical Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China · Computational Intelligence Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, U.K.

  2. Bend the Clock: Predicting Ahead to Beat Latency in Event-Based Object Detection

    Sep 22, 2026Biswadeep Sen, Benoit R. Cottereau, Nicolas Cuperlier +1Event-Based Object DetectionReal-Time Object Detection

    National University of Singapore, Singapore · IPAL CNRS IRL 2955, Singapore · CerCo, CNRS UMR 5549, Universit´e de Toulouse, France +1

  3. PointEvent: Rethinking Event-based Tiny Object Detection via Serialized Motion Evidence Accumulation

    Sep 17, 2026Zongze Wu, Baofeng Jia, Weiqi Yan +4Small Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    State key Lab of Extreme Environment Optoelectronic Dynamic Testing Technology and Instrument, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China · Jiangsu Key Lab of Visual Sensing and Intelligent Perception, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China · Fujian Key Laboratory of Urban Intelligent Sensing and Computing, Xiamen University, China

  4. Unsupervised spiking feature learning for event-based pedestrian crossing detection: approaching supervised accuracy without labelled training data

    Sep 15, 2026Henok Teklu, Mustafa Sakhai, Matej Mertik +1Spiking Neural NetworksEvent-Based Object Detection

    Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Alma Mater Europaea University, Maribor, Slovenia. · AGH University of Science and Technology, Krak´ow, Poland.

  5. Efficient Multi-Timescale Event Representations for Feed-Forward Object Detection

    Sep 4, 2026Fredrik Lundell, Per-Erik Forssen, Mårten Wadenbäck +1Event-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden · Saab AB, Linköping, Sweden

  6. Cooking beyond Frames: A Stereo Event Camera Dataset in the Kitchen

    Aug 5, 2026Chengming Feng, Hesam Araghi, Liming Zheng +4Event-Based VisionHuman Activity Recognition

    Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands · STMicroelectronics, France

  7. Beyond Symmetric Fusion: Exploiting Task-Dependent Modality Strengths for RGB-Event Small Object Detection

    Aug 2, 2026Ziheng Wang, Chaolang Li, Yutong Yang +5Small Object DetectionDetection Transformer

    Sun Yat-sen University · Shenzhen University

  8. Sequence-SOD: Bio-inspired Sequence-aware Spiking ObjectDetection for Event Cameras

    Jul 29, 2026Katharina Bendig, René Schuster, Didier StrickerSpiking Neural NetworksEvent-Based Object Detection

    RPTU – Technical University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Gottlieb-Daimler-Straße 47, Kaiserslautern 67663, Germany · DFKI – German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Trippstadter Str. 122, Kaiserslautern 67663, Germany

  9. Neuromorphic Object Detection: An In-Depth Study and Future Directions

    Jul 26, 2026Jianing Li, Dianze Li, Arren Glover +5Neuromorphic ComputingEvent-Based Object Detection

    Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Spiking Large Models, School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518000, China · Event-Driven Perception for Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa 16163, Italy +6

  10. SkyEV: RGB-Event UAV detection and tracking dataset and baseline

    Jul 21, 2026Jakub Mandula, Sebastian Heusinger, Julian Moosmann +2Visual Object TrackingSmall Object Detection

    ETH Zurich

  11. ASUMOT: Motion-Consistency-Based Asynchronous UAV Detection and Tracking with Event Cameras

    Jul 13, 2026Baofeng Jia, Xiaoyu Chen, Jingyuan Zhang +4Event-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

    State key Laboratory of Extreme Environment Optoelectronic Dynamic Testing Technology and Instrument, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Visual Sensing and Intelligent Perception, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

  12. Event Burst Trigger: An Availability Backdoor Attack on Event-Based SNN Object Detection

    Jul 10, 2026Jaesun Baek, Chanwook Lee, Eun-Kyu LeeBackdoor AttacksSpiking Neural Networks

    Dept. of Information and Telecommunication Eng., Incheon National University, Republic of Korea

  13. CMTFormer: Marrying Transformer with Hierarchical Information Interaction for RGB-Event Object Detection

    Jun 28, 2026Yu Li, Yuenan Hou, Yingmei Wei +2Event-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

    aLaboratory for Big Data and Decision, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China · bShanghai AI Laboratory, Shanghai, Shanghai, China

  14. M^2C-EvDet: Multi-Domain Multi-Order Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Event-based Object Detection

    Jun 23, 2026Wei Bao, Siqi Li, Shouan Pan +2Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationEvent-Based Object Detection

    BNRist, THUIBCS, BLBCI, School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

  15. Following the Flow: Advection-Consistent Modeling for Event-based Small Object Detection

    Jun 21, 2026Wen Guo, Fulong Cai, Wuzhou QuanEvent-Based VisionSmall Object Detection

    School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai 264005, China · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

  16. Neural Events: Discrete Asynchronous Autoencoders for Event-Based Vision

    Jun 18, 2026Roberto Pellerito, Daniel Gehrig, Shintaro Shiba +1Event-Based VisionRepresentation Learning

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich · University of Pennsylvania · The University of Tokyo +1

  17. FPGA-Accelerated Neuromorphic Vision System for Real-Time Orbital Object Detection

    Jun 17, 2026Diego Hernández, Sebastián Valdivia, Vicente Westerhout +2Event-Based Object DetectionFPGA Acceleration

    Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Valpara´ıso, Valpara´ıso, Chile

  18. FATE: Pillar Encoding and Frequency-Aware Training for Event-Based Object Detection

    Jun 15, 2026Md Tawheedul Islam Bhuian, Kyoung-Don KangEvent-Based VisionFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

    School of Computing State University of New York at Binghamton

  19. EventRadar: Long-Range Visual UAV Discovery through Spatiotemporal Event Sensing

    Jun 9, 2026Zhiting Zhou, Xingchen Liu, Xinglin Yu +5Event-Based VisionUAV Detection

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · Sun Yat-sen University · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen +3

  20. A Multimodal RGB and Events Dataset for Hand Detection in First-Person View

    Jun 9, 2026Bharghav Kota, Yulia SandamirskayaEvent-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

    Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Wädenswil, Switzerland · Zurich University of Applied Sciences Wädenswil, Switzerland

  21. AdaFuse-Det: Adaptive Cross-Modal Fusion of Event Cameras for Robust Object Detection in Low-Light RGB Imagery

    May 23, 2026Raju Imandi, Chethana B, Bharatesh Chakravarthi +3Event-Based Object DetectionObject Detection

    SRM University AP, India · Aptiv, Bengaluru, India · Arizona State University, USA +2

  22. Brain-inspired spike-timing plasticity for reliable label-efficient event-camera vision

    May 17, 2026Mohamad Yazan Sadoun, Sarah Sharif, Yaser Mike BanadEvent-Based VisionSpiking Neural Networks

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

  23. Frequency-domain Event-based Imaging for Selective Surveillance

    May 14, 2026Megan Birch, James Rick, Adrish Kar +2Event-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

    Georgia Tech Research Institute, 250 14th Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA

  24. M2^2E-UAV: A Benchmark and Analysis for Onboard Motion-on-Motion Event-Based Tiny UAV Detection

    May 11, 2026Weiqi Yan, Lixin Chen, Xiangrui Hou +5Small Object DetectionEvent-Based Object Detection

    Fujian Key Laboratory of Urban Intelligent Sensing and Computing, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China · Meta, Menlo Park, USA

  25. Rethinking Event-Based Object Dtection through Representation-Level Temporal Aggregation and Model-Level Hypergraph Reasoning

    May 9, 2026Meisen Wang, Hao Deng, Wei Bao +5Event-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

    1Xi’an Jiaotong University · 2Tsinghua University · 3China Mobile System Integration +1

  26. Real-Time Frame- and Event-based Object Detection with Spiking Neural Networks on Edge Neuromorphic Hardware: Design, Deployment and Benchmark

    Apr 30, 2026Udayanga G. W. K. N. Gamage, Yan Zeng, Cesar Cadena +2Edge InferenceSpiking Neural Networks

    Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Anker Engelunds Vej 1, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark · Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Hapugala,Galle 80000, Sri Lanka · Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH zürich, Leonhardstrasse 21, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

  27. Hyper-FEOD: Sparse Hypergraph-Enhanced Frame-Event Object Detection with Fine-Grained MoE

    Apr 13, 2026Wei Bao, Yuehan Wang, Tianhang Zhou +1Event-Based Object DetectionMultimodal Fusion

    BNRist, THUIBCS, BLBCI, School of Software, Tsinghua University · State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing, 102249, China

  28. Biologically Inspired Event-Based Perception and Sample-Efficient Learning for High-Speed Table Tennis Robots

    Apr 6, 2026Ziqi Wang, Jingyue Zhao, Xun Xiao +5Robotic Table TennisRobotics

    National University of Defence Technology, Changsha 410073, Hunan, P.R.China · Defense Innovation Institute, AMS · Qiyuan Lab

  29. Benchmarking Recurrent Event-Based Object Detection for Industrial Multi-Class Recognition on MTevent

    Mar 23, 2026Lokeshwaran Manohar, Moritz RoidlEvent-Based Object DetectionObject Detection

    Chair of Material Handling and Warehousing, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

  30. SparseVoxelDet: Fully Sparse Voxel Networks for Efficient Event-Based Drone Detection

    Mar 23, 2026Mohamad Yazan Sadoun, Sarah Sharif, Yaser Mike BanadEvent-Based Object DetectionEfficient Object Detection

    Inquire Lab, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.