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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Event Collapse in Contrast Maximization Frameworks.

Shintaro Shiba, Yoshimitsu Aoki, Guillermo Gallego

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shintaro ShibaDepartment of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Kanagawa, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-6053-2285
Yoshimitsu AokiDepartment of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 3-14-1, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Kanagawa, Japan.
Guillermo GallegoDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin, 10587 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2672-9241
Keio University · JPEinstein Center Digital Future · DE

Funding

German Academic Exchange Service 57552338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contrast maximization (CMax) is a framework that provides state-of-the-art results on several event-based computer vision tasks, such as ego-motion or optical flow estimation. However, it may suffer from a problem called event collapse, which is an undesired solution where events are warped into too few pixels. As prior works have largely ignored the issue or proposed workarounds, it is imperative to analyze this phenomenon in detail. Our work demonstrates event collapse in its simplest form and proposes collapse metrics by using first principles of space-time deformation based on differential geometry and physics. We experimentally show on publicly available datasets that the proposed metrics mitigate event collapse and do not harm well-posed warps. To the best of our knowledge, regularizers based on the proposed metrics are the only effective solution against event collapse in the experimental settings considered, compared with other methods. We hope that this work inspires further research to tackle more complex warp models.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsVision, OcularMotioncomputer visioncontrast maximizationevent-based cameraintelligent sensorsmotion estimationoptical flowrobotics

Identifiers

PMID35890869
PMCPMC9315985
OpenAlexW4285043186

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