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State Space Models for Event Cameras

23 Feb 2024CVPR 2024 1arXiv:2402.15584archive 2025-07-28

Nikola Zubić, Mathias Gehrig, Davide Scaramuzza

Today, state-of-the-art deep neural networks that process event-camera data first convert a temporal window of events into dense, grid-like input representations. As such, they exhibit poor generalizability when deployed at higher inference frequencies (i.e., smaller temporal windows) than the ones they were trained on. We address this challenge by introducing state-space models (SSMs) with learnable timescale parameters to event-based vision. This design adapts to varying frequencies without the need to retrain the network at different frequencies. Additionally, we investigate two strategies to counteract aliasing effects when deploying the model at higher frequencies. We comprehensively evaluate our approach against existing methods based on RNN and Transformer architectures across various benchmarks, including Gen1 and 1 Mpx event camera datasets. Our results demonstrate that SSM-based models train 33% faster and also exhibit minimal performance degradation when tested at higher frequencies than the training input. Traditional RNN and Transformer models exhibit performance drops of more than 20 mAP, with SSMs having a drop of 3.76 mAP, highlighting the effectiveness of SSMs in event-based vision tasks.

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Event-based visionObject DetectionState Space Models

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Object Detection GEN1 Detection S5-ViT-B Params 18.2 #3 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection GEN1 Detection S5-ViT-B mAP 47.4 #3 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection GEN1 Detection S4D-ViT-B Params 16.5 #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection GEN1 Detection S4D-ViT-B mAP 46.2 #7 of 11 Archive leaderboard report

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