Event-Based Vision

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Overview

Event-based vision studies cameras that report changes in brightness asynchronously rather than capturing fixed-rate images, making them useful for fast motion, low light, and high-dynamic-range scenes. Methods convert events into time surfaces, voxel grids, or continuous-time features, then apply neural networks, spiking models, or geometric estimation for tasks such as detection, optical flow, depth, and visual odometry. Work also combines events with RGB, inertial, or LiDAR data and evaluates systems on benchmarks such as DSEC, MVSEC, Gen1, and DVS Gesture. A central challenge is making results robust to sensor noise and hardware differences while balancing accuracy, latency, energy use, and performance against frame-based methods in real-world settings.

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  1. Rendering-Free Event Frame Simulation for Fast Reinforcement Learning of Autonomous Robot Navigation

    Oct 27, 2026Dequan Ou, Austin Lopez, Quentin Missinne +2Robotics SimulationEvent-Based Vision

    All authors are with the Micro Air Vehicle Lab of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands

  2. Hierarchical Sparse Graph for Multi-dimensional Assignment in Event-based Tracking

    Oct 27, 2026Muxi Zha, Yang Shang, Wenlong Zhang +2Multi-Object TrackingData Association

    College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, Hunan, China · Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Image Measurement and Vision Navigation, Changsha, 410073, Hunan, China

  3. MvT: Event-based Multi-view Projection for Multiple Object Tracking

    Oct 27, 2026Muxi Zha, Banglei Guan, Minzu Liang +4Multi-Object TrackingEvent-Based Vision

    College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, Hunan, China · Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Image Measurement and Vision Navigation, Changsha, 410073, Hunan, China · College of Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China +1

  4. Readout and Operating-Point Sensitivity in Event-Stream Candidate Selection

    Oct 27, 2026Yifan ShuaiEvent-Based Vision

    LiAuto

  5. Polarity--Time Interaction and Multi-Level Reliability for Event-Based Spacecraft Pose Estimation

    Oct 27, 2026Yonglong Zhang, Zongwu Xie, Yang LiuSpacecraft Pose EstimationCamera Pose Estimation

  6. PAFS: Perturbation-Aware Firing Scaffolds for Robust Event-Based SNNs

    Oct 23, 2026Ning Liu, Jun Sun, Hao Guo +6Spiking Neural NetworksNeural Network Robustness

    The University of Western Australia, Australia · Nanjing University, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China +2

  7. CoHelix: Event-Based Multi-Propeller Rotation-Rate Tracking with Shared Projective Geometry

    Oct 22, 2026Radim Spetlik, Tobiáš Vinklárek, Jan Klivan +3Event-Based Vision

    Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering

  8. Recurrent Vision Transformers for Event-Based Spacecraft Pose Estimation Under Slow Relative Motions

    Oct 19, 2026Sofia McLeod, Mohsi Jawaid, Carl Seubert +1Spacecraft Pose EstimationEvent-Based Vision

    AI for Space Group, Adelaide University · Australasian Space Innovation Institute

  9. Rate as a Feature, Not a Nuisance: Curriculum FiLM Training for Event-Based Graph Neural Networks

    Oct 17, 2026Kavyansh Tyagi, Andreas ZieglerEvent-Based VisionGraph Neural Networks

    National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, India · University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  10. Towards bio-inspired visual navigation: a neuromorphic navigation paradigm for MAVs

    Oct 15, 2026Junjie Jiang, Ankang Zhou, Zheng FangVisual NavigationUAV Navigation

    Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China. · College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.

  11. Event Cameras versus Frame Cameras for Synthetic-Aperture Imaging: A Simulation Study

    Oct 14, 2026Jakob Hinterholzer, Mohamed Youssef, Oliver BimberComputational ImagingEvent-Based Vision

    Johannes Kepler University Linz Institute of Computer Graphics Linz, Austria

  12. Spacecraft Pose Tracking via Kinematic Prediction and Selective Event Correction

    Oct 14, 2026Yonglong Zhang, Guanning Yao, Shuo Zhang +3Spacecraft Pose EstimationEvent-Based Vision

    All authors are with the State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, Heilongjiang, China.

  13. EventLens: Event-Structure Reinforcement Learning for Video Understanding

    Oct 12, 2026Guowen Zhang, Boshen Xu, Zihao Yue +6Video UnderstandingTemporal Video Understanding

    AIM3 Lab, Renmin University of China · Kling AI

  14. Event-based Action Recognition by Pre-Training on Multi-Frame Representations

    Oct 9, 2026Emma Norrby, Tomas Wilkinson, Per Nyblom +1Event-Based VisionMasked Autoencoders

    Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Linköping, Sweden

  15. Learning Which Correspondences to Trust: Confidence-Weighted Event-Camera Localization in LiDAR Maps

    Oct 8, 2026Panagiotis Kiousis, Kuangyi Chen, Jun Zhang +1Camera Pose EstimationMap-Based Localization

    Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. of Patras, Greece. · Institute of Visual Computing, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.

  16. Bringing BNNs to Fast Event Processing

    Oct 7, 2026Paul Longour, Julien Moreau, Franck DavoineBinary Neural NetworksEvent-Based Vision

    Université de technologie de Compiègne, CNRS, Heudiasyc, Compiègne, France · CNRS, INSA Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, Villeurbanne, France

  17. PIE-PS: Photometric Stereo from Physical Irradiance Event Streams

    Oct 6, 2026Xiangze Meng, Guangyu Li, Jing Li +4Event-Based VisionSurface Normal Estimation

    Jilin University, China · Guangdong Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology, China · Beijing Institute of Technology, China +1

  18. Event Cameras for Melt-Pool Monitoring in Additive Manufacturing: A Benchmark and a Cross-Machine Transfer Analysis

    Oct 3, 2026Mohamad Yazan Sadoun, Sarah Sharif, Yingtao Liu +2Additive ManufacturingEvent-Based Vision

    School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. · INQUIRE Lab, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. · School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.

  19. Asynchronous Tracking, Optical Communication and 3D Motion Capture using Event-based Sensors

    Oct 3, 2026Ziwei Wang, Angus Apps, Holly Battisson +3Event-Based Vision

    Systems Theory and Robotics Group, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University

  20. UniDynamics: Event-RGB Fusion for Unified Future 4D Dynamic Scene Generation

    Oct 2, 2026Daikun Liu, Xin Zhan, Teng Wang +24D Scene GenerationVideo Prediction

    Southeast University, China

  21. Depth Hypothesis Guided Iterative Refinement for Event-Image Monocular Depth Estimation

    Oct 2, 2026Daikun Liu, Teng Wang, Changyin SunMonocular Depth EstimationIterative Refinement

    Southeast University

  22. SFE-VGGT: Source-Free VGGT Distillation for Event-Based Monocular Depth Estimation

    Sep 29, 2026Thai Duy Nguyen, Addison Lin WangEvent-Based VisionMonocular Depth Estimation

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  23. Stealth Is a Relation, Not a Property: How Event Representations Create Blind Spots for Timing Attacks in Event-Based Perception

    Sep 28, 2026Shoaib Ahmed Dipu, Md. Shaown Miah, Kamrul Hasan +1Event-Based VisionAdversarial Attacks

    Indiana University Indianapolis · Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology · Tennessee State University

  24. ECHO: Event-Augmented Context with Hindsight and Outlook for Wrist-Only Manipulation

    Sep 28, 2026Xinyue Wang, Yicheng Jiang, Zesen Gan +8Event-Based VisionWorld Models for Robotics

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · The University of British Columbia · MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong +2

  25. E-WAVE: Event-based Continuous Optical Flow via Warping-Aligned Visual Encoding

    Sep 28, 2026Jiale Wu, Xiaoyang Bai, Haoming Yu +3Optical FlowEvent-Based Vision

    Zhejiang University. · The University of Hong Kong.

  26. Event-Only Wingbeat Counting under Camera Motion: A Controlled MuJoCo Benchmark

    Sep 27, 2026Zhang NengboObject CountingEvent-Based Vision

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  27. Waggle-Dance-Inspired Multi-UAV Recruitment with RGB and Synthetic Event Vision

    Sep 27, 2026Zhang NengboMulti-Robot SystemsSwarm Robotics

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  28. RIPE-MambaSpike: Resolution-Independent Spiking-State-Space Interfaces for Parameter-Efficient Event-Based Vision

    Sep 26, 2026Md Muhiminul Islam, Shoaib Ahmed Dipu, Sayeed Shafayet ChowdhuryEvent-Based VisionSpiking Neural Networks

    Independent Researcher · Indiana University

  29. Toward On-Chip Training of Spiking Neural Networks for Dense Event-Based Vision

    Sep 26, 2026Maxime Vaillant, Axel Carlier, Lai Xing Ng +2Spiking Neural NetworksLocal Learning

    CNRS, IPAL IRL 2955, Singapore · Université de Toulouse, IRIT, France · Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore +2

  30. DAPEVO: Deep Adaptive Patch Frame-Event Visual Odometry

    Sep 25, 2026Luca Gandolfi, Simone Nascivera, Roberto Pellerito +3Visual OdometryRGB-Event Sensor Fusion

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, Switzerland · Bocconi University, Italy