Event-Based Vision

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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. Neuromorphic visual attention for Sign-language recognition on SpiNNaker

    May 7, 2026Sarka Liskova, Olha Vedmedenko, Mazdak Fatahi +3Event-Based VisionVisual Attention

    Dept. of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic · Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

  2. Real-world Latency Analysis of Vehicular Visible Light Communication with Multiple LED Transmitters and an Event-Based Camera

    May 7, 2026Ryota Soga, Tsukasa Shimizu, Shintaro Shiba +3Event-Based VisionWireless Communications

    Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan · TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, Toyota, Japan · Woven by Toyota, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

  3. InterFuserDVS: Event-Enhanced Sensor Fusion for Safe RL-Based Decision Making

    May 5, 2026Mustafa Sakhaia, Kaung Sithua, Min Khant Soe Okea +1Event-Based VisionEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    aFaculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, AGH University of Krakow, Krakow, 30-059, Poland · bAcademic Computer Centre AGH, Krakow, 30-950, Poland

  4. Noise2Params: Unification and Parameter Determination from Noise via a Probabilistic Event Camera Model

    May 4, 2026Owen Root, Julinda Mujo, Min XuEvent-Based VisionParameter Estimation

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, CUNY Hunter College, 695 Park Ave, New York, 10065, NY, USA.

  5. SNNF: An SNN-based Near-Sensor Noise Filter for Dynamic Vision Sensors

    May 3, 2026Yahan Yang, Pradeep Kumar Gopalakrishnan, Chang Chip Hong +1Event-Based VisionEfficient Neural Network Inference

  6. REALM: An RGB- and Event-Aligned Latent Manifold for Cross-Modal Perception

    Apr 30, 2026Vincenzo Polizzi, David B. Lindell, Jonathan KellyMultimodal Foundation ModelsEvent-Based Vision

    University of Toronto, Robotics Institute · University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science

  7. Event-based Liveness Detection using Temporal Ocular Dynamics: An Exploratory Approach

    Apr 29, 2026Nicolas Mastropasqua, Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova, Rodrigo Verschae +2Event-Based Vision

    Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Dpto. de Computaci´on, Argentina · CONICET-UBA, Instituto de Ciencias de la Computaci´on (ICC), Argentina · Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile +2

  8. Rapid tracking through strongly scattering media with physics-informed neuromorphic speckle analysis

    Apr 28, 2026Yuqing Cao, Shuo Zhu, Rongzhou Chen +3Event-Based VisionNeuromorphic Computing

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.

  9. Event-based SLAM Benchmark for High-Speed Maneuvers

    Apr 27, 2026Sheng Zhong, Junkai Niu, Guillermo Gallego +7Event-Based VisionVisual Odometry

    Neuro-morphic Automation and Intelligence Lab (NAIL) at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, China. · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin, the Science of Intelligence Excellence Cluster, the Robotics Institute Germany and the Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin, Germany. · College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China. +2

  10. Keypoint-based Dynamic Object 6-DoF Pose Tracking via Event Camera

    Apr 25, 2026Zhe Wang, Qijin Song, Zihao Li +2Event-Based VisionObject Pose Estimation

    ShanghaiTech Automation and Robotics (STAR) Center, School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China · WLSA Shanghai Academy · School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China

  11. EvFlow-GS: Event Enhanced Motion Deblurring with Optical Flow for 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Apr 24, 2026Feiyu An, Yufei Deng, Zihui Zhang +1Event-Based Vision3D Gaussian Splatting

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

  12. Match-Any-Events: Zero-Shot Motion-Robust Feature Matching Across Wide Baselines for Event Cameras

    Apr 20, 2026Ruijun Zhang, Hang Su, Kostas Daniilidis +1Event-Based VisionDomain Generalization

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 21218, USA · ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China · University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA +1

  13. Relative State Estimation using Event-Based Propeller Sensing

    Apr 20, 2026Ravi Kumar Thakur, Luis Granados Segura, Jan Klivan +4Event-Based VisionMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Karlovo Namesti 13, 121 35 Prague 2, Czechia

  14. NeuroLip: An Event-driven Spatiotemporal Learning Framework for Cross-Scene Lip-Motion-based Visual Speaker Recognition

    Apr 17, 2026Junguang Yao, Wenye Liu, Stjepan Picek +1Event-Based VisionDomain Generalization

    School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, P.R. China · independent researcher · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia +1

  15. Bidirectional Cross-Modal Prompting for Event-Frame Asymmetric Stereo

    Apr 16, 2026Ninghui Xu, Fabio Tosi, Lihui Wang +5Event-Based VisionCross-Modal Alignment

    School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, State Key Lab of Comprehensive PNT Network and Equipment Technology, Key Lab of Micro-Inertial Instrument and Advanced Navigation Technology, MOE · University of Bologna · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna +2

  16. Event-Adaptive State Transition and Gated Fusion for RGB-Event Object Tracking

    Apr 15, 2026Jinlin You, Muyu Li, Xudong ZhaoVisual Object TrackingState Space Models

    Dalian University of Technology

  17. Generative Anonymization in Event Streams

    Apr 14, 2026Adam T. Müller, Mihai Kocsis, Nicolaj C. StacheEvent-Based VisionSynthetic Data Generation

    Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany

  18. Dual-Exposure Imaging with Events

    Apr 11, 2026Mingyuan Lin, Hongyi Liu, Chu He +3Low-Light Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

    School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

  19. E-3DPSM: A State Machine for Event-Based Egocentric 3D Human Pose Estimation

    Apr 9, 2026Mayur Deshmukh, Hiroyasu Akada, Helge Rhodin +23D Human Pose EstimationEgocentric Vision

    MPI for Informatics, SIC · Saarland University, SIC · Bielefeld University

  20. EventFace: Event-Based Face Recognition via Structure-Driven Spatiotemporal Modeling

    Apr 8, 2026Qingguo Meng, Xingbo Dong, Zhe Jin +1Face RecognitionEvent-Based Vision

    State Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, the Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Secure Artificial Intelligence, Anhui Provincial International Joint Research Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Imaging, and the School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University, Hefei, China · Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy

  21. Sharpness-Aware Surrogate Training for On-Sensor Spiking Neural Networks

    Apr 6, 2026Maximilian NicholsonSpiking Neural NetworksEvent-Based Vision

    University of Bath, United Kingdom

  22. E-VLA: Event-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for Dark and Blurred Scenes

    Apr 6, 2026Jiajun Zhai, Hao Shi, Shangwei Guo +2Event-Based VisionVLM Robustness

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group · Hunan University

  23. Efficient Onboard Spacecraft Pose Estimation with Event Cameras and Neuromorphic Hardware

    Apr 5, 2026Arunkumar Rathinam, Jules Lecomte, Jost Reelsen +3Spacecraft Pose EstimationRelative Pose Estimation

    University of Luxembourg · Fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany · Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany +1

  24. DSERT-RoLL: Robust Multi-Modal Perception for Diverse Driving Conditions with Stereo Event-RGB-Thermal Cameras, 4D Radar, and Dual-LiDAR

    Apr 4, 2026Hoonhee Cho, Jae-Young Kang, Yuhwan Jeong +4Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    Visual Intelligence Lab, KAIST

  25. EventHub: Data Factory for Generalizable Event-Based Stereo Networks without Active Sensors

    Apr 2, 2026Luca Bartolomei, Fabio Tosi, Matteo Poggi +2Event-Based VisionStereo Matching

    Advanced Research Center on Electronic System (ARCES) · Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), University of Bologna, Italy · TU Berlin, Robotics Institute Germany, Einstein Center Digital Future, SCIoI Excellence Cluster, Germany

  26. AceleradorSNN: A Neuromorphic Cognitive System Integrating Spiking Neural Networks and DynamicImage Signal Processing on FPGA

    Mar 30, 2026Daniel Gutierrez, Ruben Martinez, Leyre Arnedo +2Neuromorphic ComputingFPGA-Based Neural Network Acceleration

    Intigia R&D Department, Alicante, Spain

  27. Event-Based Method for High-Speed 3D Deformation Measurement under Extreme Illumination Conditions

    Mar 30, 2026Banglei Guan, Yifei Bian, Zibin Liu +6Structural Health MonitoringEvent-Based Vision

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

  28. Event6D: Event-based Novel Object 6D Pose Tracking

    Mar 30, 2026Jae-Young Kang, Hoonhee Cho, Taeyeop Lee +4Object Pose EstimationEvent-Based Vision

    KAIST · NVIDIA

  29. Energy-Aware Imitation Learning for Steering Prediction Using Events and Frames

    Mar 30, 2026Hu Cao, Jiong Liu, Xingzhuo Yan +5Autonomous DrivingImitation Learning

    School of Automation, Southeast University, Sipailou 2, Nanjing, 210096, China. · Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-time Systems, Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstraße 15, Munich, 85748, Germany. · School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Cao’an Road, Shanghai, 200070, China.

  30. Spatial Orthogonal Refinement for Robust RGB-Event Visual Object Tracking

    Mar 29, 2026Dexing Huang, Shiao Wang, Fan Zhang +1RGB-Event Sensor FusionVisual Object Tracking

    School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China