arXiv Computer Vision

Low-Latency Event-Based Object Detection with Spatially-Sparse Linear Attention

The paper introduces Spatially‑Sparse Linear Attention (SSLA), a novel attention mechanism that activates only a sparse subset of spatial states, enabling efficient parallel training and inference for event‑based vision. Building on SSLA, the authors present SSLA‑Det, an end‑to‑end asynchronous linear attention model that achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on Gen1 and N‑Caltech101 while reducing per‑event computation by more than 20× compared to the strongest prior asynchronous baseline.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

FLEET: Token-Based Feature Extraction for Event Camera-based Reinforcement Learning

FLEET is a token‑based feature extractor that processes event camera data directly, using random Fourier features and cross‑attention to compress variable‑length event streams into fixed‑size latent representations. By decoupling inference cost from sensor resolution, it avoids the high compute and temporal blurring associated with CNN‑based grid aggregation. Experiments on a new high‑throughput benchmark show that FLEET outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods and remains robust across different observation frequencies.

By Tristan Gottwald, Maximilian Schier, Melanie Schaller, Bodo Rosenhahn
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Efficient Multi-Timescale Event Representations for Feed-Forward Object Detection

The paper introduces a confidence‑normalized continuous multi‑timescale representation for event cameras, using logarithmic B‑spline temporal encoding and a geometry‑aware local confidence mechanism. When paired with a fixed feed‑forward EventCenterNet detector, this representation outperforms the compact CSTR representation on the PEDRo and Gen1 datasets. Additionally, a recursive exponential‑polynomial approximation is proposed to allow efficient event‑by‑event updates while maintaining detection performance.

By Fredrik Lundell, Per-Erik Forssen, M{\aa}rten Wadenb\"ack, Astrid Lundmark
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 4

Efficient Multi-Timescale Event Representations for Feed-Forward Object Detection

The paper proposes a confidence‑normalized continuous multi‑timescale event representation that encodes temporal information directly into event data using logarithmic B‑spline temporal encoding and a geometry‑aware local confidence mechanism. When applied to a fixed feed‑forward EventCenterNet detector, this representation outperforms the compact CSTR representation on the PEDRo and Gen1 datasets. Additionally, a recursive exponential‑polynomial approximation is introduced to allow efficient event‑by‑event updates while largely preserving detection performance.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Real-time Unsupervised Object Discovery from Asynchronous Event Streams

The paper presents a lightweight, training‑free framework for real‑time unsupervised object discovery from asynchronous event camera streams. It introduces a linear‑time Spatio‑Temporal Probabilistic Event Filter (SPEF) that adaptively distinguishes salient motion from noise, and an Event Morton Code Clustering (EMCC) module that efficiently groups events without costly distance calculations. Experiments on E‑MLB, FRED, and eTraM datasets show SPEF outperforms classical filters and competes with learning‑based methods, while EMCC achieves the highest accuracy and fastest execution among density‑based clustering baselines.

By Pratham G. Shenwai, Hemant Kumar Singh, Sridhar Ravi
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Locate Anything in Videos: Rethinking Efficient Generative Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding

The paper introduces Parallel Tube Decoding (PTD), a generative approach for spatio‑temporal video grounding that splits the task into a temporal block and simultaneous time‑conditioned spatial blocks, eliminating token‑level and trajectory‑level dependencies. PTD uses Decoupled Block Attention to allow parallel spatial generation while maintaining shared video‑query context, and incorporates localization‑aware policy optimization for temporal boundaries and spatial geometry. Experiments on VidSTG show PTD cuts tube completion latency by 79× and boosts spatial decoding throughput by 92× compared to autoregressive decoding, while improving grounding accuracy and performing well on related tasks such as temporal grounding, VideoQA, and referring video object tracking.

By Hanoona Rasheed, Haania Siddiqui, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Salman Khan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 6

Evidence-Driven Dynamic Visual Selector for Efficient Long Video Understanding

Recent advancements in MLLM-based long-form video understanding have mitigated inference-time computational cost and limited context lengths by selecting query-relevant frames. However, existing approaches predominantly rely on external proxy scorers and rigid heuristic rules, inevitably suffering from misalignment with the target MLLM's intrinsic evidence and failing to accommodate the non-uniform spatiotemporal information density.