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. High Dynamic Range Imaging Based on an Asymmetric Event-SVE Camera System

    Feb 28, 2026Pengju Sun, Banglei Guan, Jing Tao +4HDR ImagingMulti-Source Image Fusion

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

  2. Modelling and Simulation of Neuromorphic Datasets for Anomaly Detection in Computer Vision

    Feb 26, 2026Mike Middleton, Teymoor Ali, Hakan Kayan +6Synthetic Anomaly GenerationEvent-Based Vision

    Bio-Inspired Systems and Technologies Lab, University of York, York, UK · Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK · School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK +2

  3. Sensor Generalization for Adaptive Sensing in Event-based Object Detection via Joint Distribution Training

    Feb 26, 2026Aheli Saha, René Schuster, Didier StrickerAdaptive SensingEvent-Based Vision

    Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  4. Motion-aware Event Suppression for Event Cameras

    Feb 26, 2026Roberto Pellerito, Nico Messikommer, Giovanni Cioffi +2Event-Based Vision

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  5. Locally Adaptive Decay Surfaces for High-Speed Face and Landmark Detection with Event Cameras

    Feb 26, 2026Paul Kielty, Timothy Hanley, Peter CorcoranEvent-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

    With the College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway, Ireland.

  6. Coded-E2LF: Coded Aperture Light Field Imaging from Events

    Feb 26, 2026Tomoya Tsuchida, Keita Takahashi, Chihiro Tsutake +2Computational ImagingImage Reconstruction

    Nagoya University, Japan · Osaka University, Japan

  7. RGB-Event HyperGraph Prompt for Kilometer Marker Recognition based on Pre-trained Foundation Models

    Feb 25, 2026Xiaoyu Xian, Shiao Wang, Xiao Wang +2RGB-Event Sensor FusionEvent-Based Vision

    School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · CRRC Academy Co., Ltd, Beijing, 100070, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.

  8. Real-time Motion Segmentation with Event-based Normal Flow

    Feb 24, 2026Sheng Zhong, Zhongyang Ren, Xiya Zhu +3Motion SegmentationEvent-Based Vision

    Neuromorphic Automation and Intelligence Lab (NAIL) at School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, China. · Capital One. · University of Maryland, College Park.

  9. UniE2F: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Event-to-Frame Reconstruction with Video Foundation Models

    Feb 22, 2026Gang Xu, Zhiyu Zhu, Junhui HouEvent-Based VisionVideo Prediction

    Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ), Shenzhen, China · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan), Dongguan, China

  10. RoEL: Robust Event-based 3D Line Reconstruction

    Feb 20, 2026Gwangtak Bae, Jaeho Shin, Seunggu Kang +33D ReconstructionEvent-Based Vision

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University · University of Michigan · Dept. of Future Automotive Mobility, Seoul National University +1

  11. Event-based Visual Deformation Measurement

    Feb 16, 2026Yuliang Wu, Wei Zhai, Yuxin Cui +3Deformable Image RegistrationEvent-Based Vision

    MoE Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Perception and Cognition, University of Science and Technology of China · Fuzhou University

  12. Event-based Scene Synthesis via Inter-Frame Residual Alignment

    Dec 19, 2025Jiyun Kong, Jun-Hyuk Kim, Jong-Seok LeeEvent-Based VisionVideo Prediction

    Yonsei University, Korea · Chung-Ang University, Korea

  13. Hybrid Event Frame Sensors: Modeling, Calibration, and Simulation

    Nov 22, 2025Yunfan Lu, Nico Messikommer, Xiaogang Xu +5Event-Based Vision

    1AI Thrust, HKUST(GZ) · RPG, University of Zurich · CUHK +1

  14. Spiking Patches: Asynchronous, Sparse, and Efficient Tokens for Event Cameras

    Oct 30, 2025Christoffer Koo Øhrstrøm, Ronja Güldenring, Lazaros NalpantidisEvent-Based VisionVisual Tokenization

    Technical University of Denmark

  15. Event-Based Visual Teach-and-Repeat via Fast Fourier-Domain Cross-Correlation

    Sep 21, 2025Gokul B. Nair, Alejandro Fontan, Michael Milford +1Visual NavigationRobot Navigation

    The authors are with the QUT Centre for Robotics, Faculty of Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD Australia 4000

  16. VibES: Induced Vibration for Persistent Event-Based Sensing

    Aug 26, 2025Vincenzo Polizzi, Stephen Yang, Quentin Clark +3Event-Based Vision

    University of Toronto, Robotics Institute · University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering · University of Toronto +1

  17. BiasBench: A reproducible benchmark for tuning the biases of event cameras

    Apr 25, 2025Andreas Ziegler, David Joseph, Thomas Gossard +2Event-Based VisionBenchmark Design

    Cognitive Systems Group, University of Tübingen, Germany

  18. On the Theory of Bias Tuning in Event Cameras

    Jan 30, 2025David El-Chai Ben-Ezra, Daniel Brisk, Adar TalEvent-Based VisionNeuromorphic Computing

  19. GERD: Geometric event response data generation

    Dec 4, 2024Jens Egholm Pedersen, Dimitris Korakovounis, Jörg ConradtEvent-Based VisionSynthetic Data Generation

    DTU Electro, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark · Department of Computational Science and Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  20. Event-based vision sensing and its application to pedestrian detection for intelligent transportation and surveillance

    Jul 5, 2024Han Wang, Juntao Wu, Jingyuan Bao +5Event-Based VisionEvent-Based Object Detection

  21. Event-based Continuous Color Video Decompression from Single Frames

    Nov 30, 2023Ziyun Wang, Friedhelm Hamann, Kenneth Chaney +3Event-Based Vision

    University of Pennsylvania, USA. · TU Berlin, ECDF Berlin, SCIoI Cluster and RIG, Germany. · Archimedes, Athena RC

  22. Point-Voxel Absorbing Graph Representation Learning for Event Stream based Recognition

    Jun 8, 2023Yuxiang Zhang, Chengguo Yuan, Xiao Wang +2Event-Based VisionGraph Neural Networks

    aSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China.