Title
Secrets of Event-Based Optical Flow.
Abstract
Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods with event data. However, it requires several adaptations (data conversion, loss function, etc.) as they have very different properties. We develop a principled method to extend the Contrast Maximization framework to estimate optical flow from events alone. We investigate key elements: how to design the objective function to prevent overfitting, how to warp events to deal better with occlusions, and how to improve convergence with multi-scale raw events. With these key elements, our method ranks first among unsupervised methods on the MVSEC benchmark, and is competitive on the DSEC benchmark. Moreover, our method allows us to expose the issues of the ground truth flow in those benchmarks, and produces remarkable results when it is transferred to unsupervised learning settings. Our code is available at https://github.com/tub-rip/event_based_optical_flow.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/978-3-031-19797-0_36
European Conference on Computer Vision
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Tel Aviv, 2022
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shintaro Shiba100.34
Yoshimitsu Aoki28023.65
Guillermo Gallego326519.58