EREBUS: End-to-end Robust Event Based Underwater Simulation

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Main Authors: Kyatham, Hitesh, Suresh, Arjun, Palnitkar, Aadi, Aloimonos, Yiannis
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Published: 2025
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author Kyatham, Hitesh
Suresh, Arjun
Palnitkar, Aadi
Aloimonos, Yiannis
author_facet Kyatham, Hitesh
Suresh, Arjun
Palnitkar, Aadi
Aloimonos, Yiannis
contents The underwater domain presents a vast array of challenges for roboticists and computer vision researchers alike, such as poor lighting conditions and high dynamic range scenes. In these adverse conditions, traditional vision techniques struggle to adapt and lead to suboptimal performance. Event-based cameras present an attractive solution to this problem, mitigating the issues of traditional cameras by tracking changes in the footage on a frame-by-frame basis. In this paper, we introduce a pipeline which can be used to generate realistic synthetic data of an event-based camera mounted to an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) in an underwater environment for training vision models. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our pipeline using the task of rock detection with poor visibility and suspended particulate matter, but the approach can be generalized to other underwater tasks.
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spellingShingle EREBUS: End-to-end Robust Event Based Underwater Simulation
Kyatham, Hitesh
Suresh, Arjun
Palnitkar, Aadi
Aloimonos, Yiannis
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
The underwater domain presents a vast array of challenges for roboticists and computer vision researchers alike, such as poor lighting conditions and high dynamic range scenes. In these adverse conditions, traditional vision techniques struggle to adapt and lead to suboptimal performance. Event-based cameras present an attractive solution to this problem, mitigating the issues of traditional cameras by tracking changes in the footage on a frame-by-frame basis. In this paper, we introduce a pipeline which can be used to generate realistic synthetic data of an event-based camera mounted to an AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) in an underwater environment for training vision models. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our pipeline using the task of rock detection with poor visibility and suspended particulate matter, but the approach can be generalized to other underwater tasks.
title EREBUS: End-to-end Robust Event Based Underwater Simulation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01381