Event Cameras with Davide Scaramuzza | Ep. 347

Over the past decade, camera technology has made gradual, and significant improvements thanks to the mobile phone industry. This has accelerated multiple industries, including Robotics. In this episode, Davide Scaramuzza discusses a step-change in camera innovation that has the potential to dramatically accelerate vision-based robotics applications.

Davide Scaramuzza deep dives on Event Cameras, which operate fundamentally different from traditional cameras. Instead of sampling every pixel on an imaging sensor at a fixed frequency, the "pixels" on an event camera all operate independently, and each responds to changes in illumination. This technology unlocks a multitude of benefits, including extremely highspeed imaging, removal of the concept of "framerate", removal of data corruption due to having the sun in the sensor, reduced data throughput, and low power consumption.

3:26 What are event cameras?
6:10 How does the data look?
6:57 Benefits compared to standard camera
12:50 Neural Network to reconstruct image
15:24 Uses in Industry
19:49 Data Throughput of Event Camera
22:15 Purchasing and Cost of Event Camera
26:27 Depth Estimation & VSLAM
31:06 Goals for Robotics & Perception Group

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