EvtSlowTV -- A Large and Diverse Dataset for Event-Based Depth Estimation

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Hauptverfasser: Macaulay, Sadiq Layi, Kaygusuz, Nimet, Hadfield, Simon
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author Macaulay, Sadiq Layi
Kaygusuz, Nimet
Hadfield, Simon
author_facet Macaulay, Sadiq Layi
Kaygusuz, Nimet
Hadfield, Simon
contents Event cameras, with their high dynamic range (HDR) and low latency, offer a promising alternative for robust depth estimation in challenging environments. However, many event-based depth estimation approaches are constrained by small-scale annotated datasets, limiting their generalizability to real-world scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce EvtSlowTV, a large-scale event camera dataset curated from publicly available YouTube footage, which contains more than 13B events across various environmental conditions and motions, including seasonal hiking, flying, scenic driving, and underwater exploration. EvtSlowTV is an order of magnitude larger than existing event datasets, providing an unconstrained, naturalistic setting for event-based depth learning. This work shows the suitability of EvtSlowTV for a self-supervised learning framework to capitalise on the HDR potential of raw event streams. We further demonstrate that training with EvtSlowTV enhances the model's ability to generalise to complex scenes and motions. Our approach removes the need for frame-based annotations and preserves the asynchronous nature of event data.
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spellingShingle EvtSlowTV -- A Large and Diverse Dataset for Event-Based Depth Estimation
Macaulay, Sadiq Layi
Kaygusuz, Nimet
Hadfield, Simon
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
Event cameras, with their high dynamic range (HDR) and low latency, offer a promising alternative for robust depth estimation in challenging environments. However, many event-based depth estimation approaches are constrained by small-scale annotated datasets, limiting their generalizability to real-world scenarios. To bridge this gap, we introduce EvtSlowTV, a large-scale event camera dataset curated from publicly available YouTube footage, which contains more than 13B events across various environmental conditions and motions, including seasonal hiking, flying, scenic driving, and underwater exploration. EvtSlowTV is an order of magnitude larger than existing event datasets, providing an unconstrained, naturalistic setting for event-based depth learning. This work shows the suitability of EvtSlowTV for a self-supervised learning framework to capitalise on the HDR potential of raw event streams. We further demonstrate that training with EvtSlowTV enhances the model's ability to generalise to complex scenes and motions. Our approach removes the need for frame-based annotations and preserves the asynchronous nature of event data.
title EvtSlowTV -- A Large and Diverse Dataset for Event-Based Depth Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02953