arXiv Computer Vision

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.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Deflickering Vision-Based Occupancy Networks through Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Correlation

The paper introduces OccLinker, a lightweight plugin for vision‑based occupancy networks that reduces flickering by efficiently merging historical static and motion cues with current features via a dual cross‑attention mechanism. It generates correction components to refine base network predictions and proposes a new temporal consistency metric to quantify flickering. Experiments on two benchmark datasets show that OccLinker improves performance with minimal computational overhead while effectively diminishing flickering artifacts.

By Fengcheng Yu, Haoran Xu, Canming Xia, Ziyang Zong, Guang Tan
arXiv AI
Sep 18

PointEvent: Rethinking Event-based Tiny Object Detection via Serialized Motion Evidence Accumulation

PointEvent introduces serialized motion evidence accumulation for event-based tiny object detection, treating motion continuity as an ordered evidence propagation process. The method organizes event streams into locality‑preserving spatiotemporal paths and chronology‑preserving temporal paths, alternating serialized scans across complementary orders to consolidate fragmented motion evidence. A lightweight event‑wise state‑space framework with a high‑resolution event branch and compact context modulation achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance with the fewest parameters and fastest inference among compared methods.

By Zongze Wu, Baofeng Jia, Weiqi Yan, Jingyuan Zhang, Yu Zang, Xiaoyu Chen, Jing Han
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

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.

By Haiqing Hao, Zhipeng Sui, Rong Zou, Zijia Dai, Nikola Zubi\'c, Davide Scaramuzza, Wenhui Wang
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