Autobiasing Event Cameras for Flickering Mitigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02180v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:49:08 GMT
• Title: Autobiasing Event Cameras for Flickering Mitigation
• Authors: Mehdi Sefidgar Dilmaghani, Waseem Shariff, Cian Ryan, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces an innovative autonomous mechanism for tuning the biases of event cameras.<n>The system identifies instances of flicker in a spatial space and dynamically adjusts specific biases to minimize its impact.<n>The efficacy of this autobiasing system was robustly tested using a face detector framework under both well-lit and low-light conditions.
• Score: 7.281297644096665
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding and mitigating flicker effects caused by rapid variations in light intensity is critical for enhancing the performance of event cameras in diverse environments. This paper introduces an innovative autonomous mechanism for tuning the biases of event cameras, effectively addressing flicker across a wide frequency range -25 Hz to 500 Hz. Unlike traditional methods that rely on additional hardware or software for flicker filtering, our approach leverages the event cameras inherent bias settings. Utilizing a simple Convolutional Neural Networks -CNNs, the system identifies instances of flicker in a spatial space and dynamically adjusts specific biases to minimize its impact. The efficacy of this autobiasing system was robustly tested using a face detector framework under both well-lit and low-light conditions, as well as across various frequencies. The results demonstrated significant improvements: enhanced YOLO confidence metrics for face detection, and an increased percentage of frames capturing detected faces. Moreover, the average gradient, which serves as an indicator of flicker presence through edge detection, decreased by 38.2 percent in well-lit conditions and by 53.6 percent in low-light conditions. These findings underscore the potential of our approach to significantly improve the functionality of event cameras in a range of adverse lighting scenarios.

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