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. E-TIDE: Fast, Structure-Preserving Motion Forecasting from Event Sequences

    Mar 29, 2026Biswadeep Sen, Benoit R. Cottereau, Nicolas Cuperlier +1Event-Based VisionEfficient Neural Network Inference

    National University of Singapore, Singapore · CerCo, CNRS UMR 5549, Universit´e de Toulouse, France · ETIS UMR8051, CY Cergy Paris Universit´e, ENSEA, CNRS, Cergy, France +1

  2. Synergistic Event-SVE Imaging for Quantitative Propellant Combustion Diagnostics

    Mar 26, 2026Jing Tao, Taihang Lei, Banglei Guan +5Computational ImagingHDR Imaging

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

  3. Towards Video Anomaly Detection from Event Streams: A Baseline and Benchmark Datasets

    Mar 26, 2026Peng Wu, Yuting Yan, Guansong Pang +4Event-Based VisionVideo Anomaly Detection

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China · School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore · School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, China

  4. Bio-Inspired Event-Based Visual Servoing for Ground Robots

    Mar 24, 2026Maral Mordad, Kian Behzad, Debojyoti Biswas +2Vision-Based Robot ControlEvent-Based Vision

    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115 USA · Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

  5. TETO: Tracking Events with Teacher Observation for Motion Estimation and Frame Interpolation

    Mar 24, 2026Jini Yang, Eunbeen Hong, Soowon Son +4Event-Based VisionEvent-Based Optical Flow

    KAIST AI · ETH Zurich · Korea Aerospace University

  6. Event-Driven Neuromorphic Vision Enables Energy-Efficient Visual Place Recognition

    Mar 24, 2026Geoffroy Keime, Nicolas Cuperlier, Benoit R. CottereauVisual Place RecognitionNeuromorphic Computing

    IPAL, CNRS IRL 2955, Singapore · Univ Toulouse, CNRS, CerCo UMR 5549, Toulouse, France · Laboratoire ETIS UMR 8051, CY Cergy-Paris Université, ENSEA, CNRS, Cergy, France

  7. Generative Event Pretraining with Foundation Model Alignment

    Mar 24, 2026Jianwen Cao, Jiaxu Xing, Nico Messikommer +1Event-Based VisionVision Foundation Model Adaptation

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich

  8. 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.

  9. NEC-Diff: Noise-Robust Event-RAW Complementary Diffusion for Seeing Motion in Extreme Darkness

    Mar 20, 2026Haoyue Liu, Jinghan Xu, Luxin Feng +4Low-Light Image EnhancementImage Denoising

    National Key Lab of Multispectral Information Intelligent Processing Technology School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · School of Computing, National University of Singapore

  10. PFM-VEPAR: Prompting Foundation Models for RGB-Event Camera based Pedestrian Attribute Recognition

    Mar 20, 2026Minghe Xu, Rouying Wu, ChiaWei Chu +2Event-Based VisionMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China · Zhuhai College of Science and Technology, Zhuhai, China · Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau SAR, China +1

  11. Real-Time Optical Communication Using Event-Based Vision with Moving Transmitters

    Mar 19, 2026Harmeet Dhillon, Pranay Katyal, Brendan Long +3Event-Based VisionMulti-Robot Systems

    Robotics Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA. · MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA.

  12. SpikeCLR: Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Few-Shot Event-Based Vision using Spiking Neural Networks

    Mar 17, 2026Maxime Vaillant, Axel Carlier, Lai Xing Ng +2Self-Supervised Visual Representation LearningEvent-Based Vision

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

  13. Toward Deep Representation Learning for Event-Enhanced Visual Autonomous Perception: the eAP Dataset

    Mar 17, 2026Jinghang Li, Shichao Li, Qing Lian +3Autonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving Datasets

    Neuromorphic Automation and Intelligence Lab (NAIL) at School of AI & Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China. · ByteDance, Shenzhen 518063, China. · Zhuoyu Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.

  14. EMPD: An Event-based Multimodal Physiological Dataset for Remote Pulse Wave Detection

    Mar 17, 2026Qian Feng, Pengfei Li, Rongshan Gao +3Remote PhotoplethysmographyEvent-Based Vision

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology

  15. Efficient Event Camera Volume System

    Mar 16, 2026Juan Camilo Soto, Ian Noronha, Saru Bharti +1Event-Based Vision

    Purdue University, USA.

  16. eNavi: Event-based Imitation Policies for Low-Light Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation

    Mar 15, 2026Prithvi Jai Ramesh, Kaustav Chanda, Krishna Vinod +3RGB-Event Sensor FusionRobot Navigation

    School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

  17. Enhancing Eye Feature Estimation from Event Data Streams through Adaptive Inference State Space Modeling

    Mar 14, 2026Viet Dung Nguyen, Mobina Ghorbaninejad, Chengyi Ma +5Eye TrackingEvent-Based Vision

    Rochester Institute of Technology · Meta Reality Labs

  18. High-speed Imaging through Turbulence with Event-based Light Fields

    Mar 14, 2026Yu-Hsiang Huang, Levi Burner, Sachin Shah +3Atmospheric Turbulence MitigationComputational Imaging

    University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742, USA · Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755, USA

  19. Event-based Photometric Stereo via Rotating Illumination and Per-Pixel Learning

    Mar 11, 2026Hyunwoo Kim, Won-Hoe Kim, Sanghoon Lee +3Surface Normal EstimationEvent-Based Vision

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, South Korea · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, South Korea · Department of Data Science and AI, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia +1

  20. EventVGGT: Exploring Cross-Modal Distillation for Consistent Event-based Depth Estimation

    Mar 10, 2026Yinrui Ren, Jinjing Zhu, Kanghao Chen +8Event-Based VisionDepth Estimation

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · South China Normal University · Chinese University of Hong Kong

  21. HelixTrack: Event-Based Tracking and RPM Estimation of Propeller-like Objects

    Mar 10, 2026Radim Spetlik, Michal Pliska, Vojtěch Vrba +1Visual Object TrackingEvent-Based Vision

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

  22. Event-based Motion & Appearance Fusion for 6D Object Pose Tracking

    Mar 9, 2026Zhichao Li, Chiara Bartolozzi, Lorenzo Natale +1Object Pose EstimationEvent-Based Vision

    Event-driven Perception for Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy · Humanoid Sensing and Perception, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy · University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

  23. Edged USLAM: Edge-Aware Event-Based SLAM with Learning-Based Depth Priors

    Mar 9, 2026Şebnem Sarıözkan, Hürkan Şahin, Olaya Álvarez-Tuñón +1Visual-Inertial SLAMEvent-Based Vision

    Automatic Control Group (RAT), Paderborn University, 33098 Paderborn, Germany · EIVA A/S, and IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Denmark

  24. ODD-SEC: Onboard Drone Detection with a Spinning Event Camera

    Mar 6, 2026Kuan Dai, Hongxin Zhang, Sheng Zhong +1UAV DetectionAerial Object Detection

    Neuromorphic Automation and Intelligence Lab (NAIL) at School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, China.

  25. EventGeM: Global-to-Local Feature Matching for Event-Based Visual Place Recognition

    Mar 6, 2026Adam D. Hines, Gokul B. Nair, Nicolás Marticorena +2Visual Place RecognitionEvent-Based Vision

    QUT Centre for Robotics, School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.

  26. TAPFormer: Robust Arbitrary Point Tracking via Transient Asynchronous Fusion of Frames and Events

    Mar 5, 2026Jiaxiong Liu, Zhen Tan, Jinpu Zhang +4Point TrackingMultimodal Sensor Fusion

    National University of Defense Technology · Hunan University

  27. BiEvLight: Bi-level Learning of Task-Aware Event Refinement for Low-Light Image Enhancement

    Mar 5, 2026Zishu Yao, Xiang-Xiang Su, Shengning Zhou +3Low-Light Image EnhancementEvent-Based Vision

    College of Computer and Data Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China · College of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai 264003, China

  28. Scaling Dense Event-Stream Pretraining from Visual Foundation Models

    Mar 4, 2026Zhiwen Chen, Junhui Hou, Zhiyu Zhu +2Event-Based VisionRepresentation Learning

    City University of Hong Kong · Xidian University

  29. Event-Only Drone Trajectory Forecasting with RPM-Modulated Kalman Filtering

    Mar 2, 2026Hari Prasanth S. M., Pejman Habibiroudkenar, Eerik Alamikkotervo +2Trajectory PredictionKalman Filtering

    Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland

  30. LEAR: Learning Edge-Aware Representations for Event-to-LiDAR Localization

    Mar 2, 2026Kuangyi Chen, Jun Zhang, Yuxi Hu +2LiDAR LocalizationCamera-LiDAR Fusion

    Institute of Visual Computing, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria · Neuromorphic Automation and Intelligence Lab (NAIL), School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha 410012, China