Event Camera Introduction
What is an Event Camera?
What is an Event Camera?
An event camera is a type of imaging sensor that operates in a fundamentally different way compared to traditional cameras. While conventional cameras capture images by continuously sampling the scene at fixed intervals, event cameras detect and transmit changes in brightness (intensity) on a per-pixel basis.
Sample images:
Event Camera Optical Flow:
(https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.10591.pdf)
Each colored pixel is a vector with a direction and a magnitude.
Optical flow can be used to find the focus of expansion, and thus the direction of travel:
