ICCV Daily 2021 - Thursday

Event detection cameras are still considered emerging technology even though the concept has been around for some time. In the last couple of years, companies like PROPHESEE and others have turned these conceptual ideas into actual products that have the potential to be very disruptive. These cameras operate very differently from conventional cameras. More than 10 years ago, a big group of researchers began to study the human eye and human behaviour – how people detect the world and how the brain processes the images. They created this camera technology with the idea that it would mimic the human eye. “ It’s a camera designed to behave like a human retina, ” Keigo explains. “ There are a lot of efficiencies to that. That allows us to process a massive amount of visual information in a short amount of time . It enables us to work in situations where you need to act very quickly. It gives us a fundamentally different type of sensor that is very favourable for those high-speed applications. ” Originally, the idea was to see if this technology could be useful for classical computer vision and machine learning applications, like recognition and detection . “ In classical computer vision, everything is based on the idea to take pictures, ” Davide explains. “ With video, you’re talking about a sequence of frames, but that’s not how the human retina works. The human eye doesn’t have any concept of frames. The retina is this big matrix, and each point is a pixel. Every time a change is detected in a point of the retina, a 10 DAILY ICCV Thursday Tutorial Preview Keigo Hirakawa has been a professor at the University of Dayton for 11 years. Introduction to Event Detection Cameras They are co-organizers of the Introduction to Event Detection Cameras tutorial at ICCV this year and speak to us before the session on Saturday. Davide Migliore is Director of Sales and Marketing for PROPHESEE in North America.