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Main Authors: Li, Wenxuan, Dong, Yan, Qiu, Shaoqiang, Han, Bin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04314
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author Li, Wenxuan
Dong, Yan
Qiu, Shaoqiang
Han, Bin
author_facet Li, Wenxuan
Dong, Yan
Qiu, Shaoqiang
Han, Bin
contents Event cameras are a novel type of sensor designed for capturing the dynamic changes of a scene. Due to factors such as trigger and transmission delays, a time offset exists in the data collected by multiple event cameras, leading to inaccurate information fusion. Thus, the collected data needs to be synchronized to overcome any potential time offset issue. Hardware synchronization methods require additional circuits, while certain models of event cameras (e.g., CeleX5) do not support hardware synchronization. Therefore, this paper proposes a hardware-free event camera synchronization method. This method determines differences between start times by minimizing the dissimilarity of the event density distributions of different event cameras and synchronizes the data by adjusting timestamps. The experiments demonstrate that the method's synchronization error is less than 10ms under various senses with multiple models of event cameras.
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spellingShingle Hardware-Free Event Cameras Temporal Synchronization Based on Event Density Alignment
Li, Wenxuan
Dong, Yan
Qiu, Shaoqiang
Han, Bin
Robotics
Event cameras are a novel type of sensor designed for capturing the dynamic changes of a scene. Due to factors such as trigger and transmission delays, a time offset exists in the data collected by multiple event cameras, leading to inaccurate information fusion. Thus, the collected data needs to be synchronized to overcome any potential time offset issue. Hardware synchronization methods require additional circuits, while certain models of event cameras (e.g., CeleX5) do not support hardware synchronization. Therefore, this paper proposes a hardware-free event camera synchronization method. This method determines differences between start times by minimizing the dissimilarity of the event density distributions of different event cameras and synchronizes the data by adjusting timestamps. The experiments demonstrate that the method's synchronization error is less than 10ms under various senses with multiple models of event cameras.
title Hardware-Free Event Cameras Temporal Synchronization Based on Event Density Alignment
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04314