Time-Ordered Recent Event (TORE) Volumes for Event Cameras

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06108v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:03:38 GMT
• Title: Time-Ordered Recent Event (TORE) Volumes for Event Cameras
• Authors: R. Wes Baldwin, Ruixu Liu, Mohammed Almatrafi, Vijayan Asari, Keigo Hirakawa
• Abstract summary: Event cameras are an exciting, new sensor modality enabling high-speed imaging with extremely low-latency and wide dynamic range. Most machine learning architectures are not designed to directly handle sparse data, like that generated from event cameras. This paper details an event representation called Time-Ordered Recent Event (TORE) volumes. TORE volumes are designed to compactly store raw spike timing information with minimal information loss.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Event cameras are an exciting, new sensor modality enabling high-speed imaging with extremely low-latency and wide dynamic range. Unfortunately, most machine learning architectures are not designed to directly handle sparse data, like that generated from event cameras. Many state-of-the-art algorithms for event cameras rely on interpolated event representations - obscuring crucial timing information, increasing the data volume, and limiting overall network performance. This paper details an event representation called Time-Ordered Recent Event (TORE) volumes. TORE volumes are designed to compactly store raw spike timing information with minimal information loss. This bio-inspired design is memory efficient, computationally fast, avoids time-blocking (i.e. fixed and predefined frame rates), and contains "local memory" from past data. The design is evaluated on a wide range of challenging tasks (e.g. event denoising, image reconstruction, classification, and human pose estimation) and is shown to dramatically improve state-of-the-art performance. TORE volumes are an easy-to-implement replacement for any algorithm currently utilizing event representations.

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