CED: Color event camera dataset

Cedric Scheerlinck, Henri Rebecq, Timo Stoffregen, Nick Barnes, Robert Mahony, Davide Scaramuzza

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    Abstract

    Event cameras are novel, bio-inspired visual sensors, whose pixels output asynchronous and independent timestamped spikes at local intensity changes, called 'events'. Event cameras offer advantages over conventional frame-based cameras in terms of latency, high dynamic range (HDR) and temporal resolution. Until recently, event cameras have been limited to outputting events in the intensity channel, however, recent advances have resulted in the development of color event cameras, such as the Color-DAVIS346. In this work, we present and release the first Color Event Camera Dataset (CED), containing 50 minutes of footage with both color frames and events. CED features a wide variety of indoor and outdoor scenes, which we hope will help drive forward event-based vision research. We also present an extension of the event camera simulator ESIM that enables simulation of color events. Finally, we present an evaluation of three state-of-the-art image reconstruction methods that can be used to convert the Color-DAVIS346 into a continuous-time, HDR, color video camera to visualise the event stream, and for use in downstream vision applications.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019
    PublisherIEEE Computer Society
    Pages1684-1693
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9781728125060
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2019
    Event32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019 - Long Beach, United States
    Duration: 16 Jun 201920 Jun 2019

    Publication series

    NameIEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
    Volume2019-June
    ISSN (Print)2160-7508
    ISSN (Electronic)2160-7516

    Conference

    Conference32nd IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityLong Beach
    Period16/06/1920/06/19

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