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The event-camera dataset and simulator: Event-based data for pose estimation, visual odometry, and SLAM

Mueggler, Elias; Rebecq, Henri; Gallego, Guillermo; Delbruck, Tobi; Scaramuzza, Davide (2017). The event-camera dataset and simulator: Event-based data for pose estimation, visual odometry, and SLAM. International Journal of Robotics Research, 36(2):144-155.

Abstract

New vision sensors, such as the dynamic and active-pixel vision sensor (DAVIS), incorporate a conventional global-shutter camera and an event-based sensor in the same pixel array. These sensors have great potential for high-speed robotics and computer vision because they allow us to combine the benefits of conventional cameras with those of event-based sensors: low latency, high temporal resolution, and very high dynamic range. However, new algorithms are required to exploit the sensor characteristics and cope with its unconventional output, which consists of a stream of asynchronous brightness changes (called “events”) and synchronous grayscale frames. For this purpose, we present and release a collection of datasets captured with a DAVIS in a variety of synthetic and real environments, which we hope will motivate research on new algorithms for high-speed and high-dynamic-range robotics and computer-vision applications. In addition to global-shutter intensity images and asynchronous events, we provide inertial measurements and ground-truth camera poses from a motion-capture system. The latter allows comparing the pose accuracy of ego-motion estimation algorithms quantitatively. All the data are released both as standard text files and binary files (i.e. rosbag). This paper provides an overview of the available data and describes a simulator that we release open-source to create synthetic event-camera data.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:03 Faculty of Economics > Department of Informatics
07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Neuroinformatics
Dewey Decimal Classification:570 Life sciences; biology
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Software
Physical Sciences > Modeling and Simulation
Physical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Physical Sciences > Artificial Intelligence
Physical Sciences > Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Physical Sciences > Applied Mathematics
Scope:Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)
Language:English
Date:2017
Deposited On:01 Mar 2018 12:46
Last Modified:17 Jun 2025 01:38
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd.
Number of Pages:12
ISSN:0278-3649
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364917691115
Other Identification Number:merlin-id:14066

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