Event-based Graph Representation with Spatial and Motion Vectors for Asynchronous Object Detection

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Main Authors: Verma, Aayush Atul, Vaghela, Arpitsinh, Chakravarthi, Bharatesh, Chanda, Kaustav, Yang, Yezhou
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author Verma, Aayush Atul
Vaghela, Arpitsinh
Chakravarthi, Bharatesh
Chanda, Kaustav
Yang, Yezhou
author_facet Verma, Aayush Atul
Vaghela, Arpitsinh
Chakravarthi, Bharatesh
Chanda, Kaustav
Yang, Yezhou
contents Event-based sensors offer high temporal resolution and low latency by generating sparse, asynchronous data. However, converting this irregular data into dense tensors for use in standard neural networks diminishes these inherent advantages, motivating research into graph representations. While such methods preserve sparsity and support asynchronous inference, their performance on downstream tasks remains limited due to suboptimal modeling of spatiotemporal dynamics. In this work, we propose a novel spatiotemporal multigraph representation to better capture spatial structure and temporal changes. Our approach constructs two decoupled graphs: a spatial graph leveraging B-spline basis functions to model global structure, and a temporal graph utilizing motion vector-based attention for local dynamic changes. This design enables the use of efficient 2D kernels in place of computationally expensive 3D kernels. We evaluate our method on the Gen1 automotive and eTraM datasets for event-based object detection, achieving over a 6% improvement in detection accuracy compared to previous graph-based works, with a 5x speedup, reduced parameter count, and no increase in computational cost. These results highlight the effectiveness of structured graph modeling for asynchronous vision. Project page: eventbasedvision.github.io/eGSMV.
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spellingShingle Event-based Graph Representation with Spatial and Motion Vectors for Asynchronous Object Detection
Verma, Aayush Atul
Vaghela, Arpitsinh
Chakravarthi, Bharatesh
Chanda, Kaustav
Yang, Yezhou
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Event-based sensors offer high temporal resolution and low latency by generating sparse, asynchronous data. However, converting this irregular data into dense tensors for use in standard neural networks diminishes these inherent advantages, motivating research into graph representations. While such methods preserve sparsity and support asynchronous inference, their performance on downstream tasks remains limited due to suboptimal modeling of spatiotemporal dynamics. In this work, we propose a novel spatiotemporal multigraph representation to better capture spatial structure and temporal changes. Our approach constructs two decoupled graphs: a spatial graph leveraging B-spline basis functions to model global structure, and a temporal graph utilizing motion vector-based attention for local dynamic changes. This design enables the use of efficient 2D kernels in place of computationally expensive 3D kernels. We evaluate our method on the Gen1 automotive and eTraM datasets for event-based object detection, achieving over a 6% improvement in detection accuracy compared to previous graph-based works, with a 5x speedup, reduced parameter count, and no increase in computational cost. These results highlight the effectiveness of structured graph modeling for asynchronous vision. Project page: eventbasedvision.github.io/eGSMV.
title Event-based Graph Representation with Spatial and Motion Vectors for Asynchronous Object Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15150