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End-to-End Learning of Representations for Asynchronous Event-Based Data

17 Apr 2019ICCV 2019 10arXiv:1904.08245archive 2025-07-28

Daniel Gehrig, Antonio Loquercio, Konstantinos G. Derpanis, Davide Scaramuzza

Event cameras are vision sensors that record asynchronous streams of per-pixel brightness changes, referred to as "events". They have appealing advantages over frame-based cameras for computer vision, including high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and no motion blur. Due to the sparse, non-uniform spatiotemporal layout of the event signal, pattern recognition algorithms typically aggregate events into a grid-based representation and subsequently process it by a standard vision pipeline, e.g., Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). In this work, we introduce a general framework to convert event streams into grid-based representations through a sequence of differentiable operations. Our framework comes with two main advantages: (i) allows learning the input event representation together with the task dedicated network in an end to end manner, and (ii) lays out a taxonomy that unifies the majority of extant event representations in the literature and identifies novel ones. Empirically, we show that our approach to learning the event representation end-to-end yields an improvement of approximately 12% on optical flow estimation and object recognition over state-of-the-art methods.

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ClassificationObject RecognitionOptical Flow EstimationRobust classification

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Classification N-CARS ResNet34 + EST Accuracy (%) 92.5 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Classification N-CARS ResNet34 + EST Architecture CNN #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Classification N-CARS ResNet34 + EST Inference Time 6.47 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Classification N-CARS ResNet34 + EST Params (M) 21.8 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Classification N-CARS ResNet34 + EST Representation EST #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Classification N-CARS ResNet34 + EST Representation Time( ms / 100ms events) 0.38 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report

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