Hybrid Spiking Vision Transformer for Object Detection with Event Cameras

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07715v1
• Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 16:19:20 GMT
• Title: Hybrid Spiking Vision Transformer for Object Detection with Event Cameras
• Authors: Qi Xu, Jie Deng, Jiangrong Shen, Biwu Chen, Huajin Tang, Gang Pan,
• Abstract summary: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising approach, offering low energy consumption and rich dynamics.<n>This study proposes a novel hybrid Transformer (HsVT) model to enhance the performance of event-based object detection.<n> Experimental results demonstrate that HsVT achieves significant performance improvements in event detection with fewer parameters.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Event-based object detection has gained increasing attention due to its advantages such as high temporal resolution, wide dynamic range, and asynchronous address-event representation. Leveraging these advantages, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a promising approach, offering low energy consumption and rich spatiotemporal dynamics. To further enhance the performance of event-based object detection, this study proposes a novel hybrid spike vision Transformer (HsVT) model. The HsVT model integrates a spatial feature extraction module to capture local and global features, and a temporal feature extraction module to model time dependencies and long-term patterns in event sequences. This combination enables HsVT to capture spatiotemporal features, improving its capability to handle complex event-based object detection tasks. To support research in this area, we developed and publicly released The Fall Detection Dataset as a benchmark for event-based object detection tasks. This dataset, captured using an event-based camera, ensures facial privacy protection and reduces memory usage due to the event representation format. We evaluated the HsVT model on GEN1 and Fall Detection datasets across various model sizes. Experimental results demonstrate that HsVT achieves significant performance improvements in event detection with fewer parameters.

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