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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Event-based Vision: A Survey
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Guillermo Gallego
  • Tobi Delbruck
  • Garrick Michael Orchard
  • Chiara Bartolozzi
  • Brian Taba
  • Andrea Censi
  • Stefan Leutenegger
  • Andrew Davison
  • Jorg Conradt
  • Kostas Daniilidis
  • Davide Scaramuzza
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0098-5589
Volume 44
Number 1
Page Range 154 - 180
Date 2020
Abstract Text Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that differ from conventional frame cameras: Instead of capturing images at a fixed rate, they asynchronously measure per-pixel brightness changes, and output a stream of events that encode the time, location and sign of the brightness changes. Event cameras offer attractive properties compared to traditional cameras: high temporal resolution (in the order of is), very high dynamic range (140dB vs. 60dB), low power consumption, and high pixel bandwidth (on the order of kHz) resulting in reduced motion blur. Hence, event cameras have a large potential for robotics and computer vision in challenging scenarios for traditional cameras, such as low-latency, high speed, and high dynamic range. However, novel methods are required to process the unconventional output of these sensors in order to unlock their potential. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of event-based vision, with a focus on the applications and the algorithms developed to unlock the outstanding properties of event cameras. We present event cameras from their working principle, the actual sensors that are available and the tasks that they have been used for, from low-level vision (feature detection and tracking, optic flow, etc.) to high-level vision (reconstruction, segmentation, recognition). We also discuss the techniques developed to process events, including learning-based techniques, as well as specialized processors for these novel sensors, such as spiking neural networks. Additionally, we highlight the challenges that remain to be tackled and the opportunities that lie ahead in the search for a more efficient, bio-inspired way for machines to perceive and interact with the world.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPAMI.2020.3008413
Other Identification Number merlin-id:20318
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