EPRBench: A High-Quality Benchmark Dataset for Event Stream Based Visual Place Recognition

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Autori principali: Wang, Xiao, Xiong, Xingxing, Gao, Jinfeng, Lou, Xufeng, Jiang, Bo, Chen, Si-bao, Wang, Yaowei, Tian, Yonghong
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author Wang, Xiao
Xiong, Xingxing
Gao, Jinfeng
Lou, Xufeng
Jiang, Bo
Chen, Si-bao
Wang, Yaowei
Tian, Yonghong
author_facet Wang, Xiao
Xiong, Xingxing
Gao, Jinfeng
Lou, Xufeng
Jiang, Bo
Chen, Si-bao
Wang, Yaowei
Tian, Yonghong
contents Event stream-based Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an emerging research direction that offers a compelling solution to the instability of conventional visible-light cameras under challenging conditions such as low illumination, overexposure, and high-speed motion. Recognizing the current scarcity of dedicated datasets in this domain, we introduce EPRBench, a high-quality benchmark specifically designed for event stream-based VPR. EPRBench comprises 10K event sequences and 65K event frames, collected using both handheld and vehicle-mounted setups to comprehensively capture real-world challenges across diverse viewpoints, weather conditions, and lighting scenarios. To support semantic-aware and language-integrated VPR research, we provide LLM-generated scene descriptions, subsequently refined through human annotation, establishing a solid foundation for integrating LLMs into event-based perception pipelines. To facilitate systematic evaluation, we implement and benchmark 15 state-of-the-art VPR algorithms on EPRBench, offering a strong baseline for future algorithmic comparisons. Furthermore, we propose a novel multi-modal fusion paradigm for VPR: leveraging LLMs to generate textual scene descriptions from raw event streams, which then guide spatially attentive token selection, cross-modal feature fusion, and multi-scale representation learning. This framework not only achieves highly accurate place recognition but also produces interpretable reasoning processes alongside its predictions, significantly enhancing model transparency and explainability. The dataset and source code will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Neuromorphic_ReID
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spellingShingle EPRBench: A High-Quality Benchmark Dataset for Event Stream Based Visual Place Recognition
Wang, Xiao
Xiong, Xingxing
Gao, Jinfeng
Lou, Xufeng
Jiang, Bo
Chen, Si-bao
Wang, Yaowei
Tian, Yonghong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Event stream-based Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an emerging research direction that offers a compelling solution to the instability of conventional visible-light cameras under challenging conditions such as low illumination, overexposure, and high-speed motion. Recognizing the current scarcity of dedicated datasets in this domain, we introduce EPRBench, a high-quality benchmark specifically designed for event stream-based VPR. EPRBench comprises 10K event sequences and 65K event frames, collected using both handheld and vehicle-mounted setups to comprehensively capture real-world challenges across diverse viewpoints, weather conditions, and lighting scenarios. To support semantic-aware and language-integrated VPR research, we provide LLM-generated scene descriptions, subsequently refined through human annotation, establishing a solid foundation for integrating LLMs into event-based perception pipelines. To facilitate systematic evaluation, we implement and benchmark 15 state-of-the-art VPR algorithms on EPRBench, offering a strong baseline for future algorithmic comparisons. Furthermore, we propose a novel multi-modal fusion paradigm for VPR: leveraging LLMs to generate textual scene descriptions from raw event streams, which then guide spatially attentive token selection, cross-modal feature fusion, and multi-scale representation learning. This framework not only achieves highly accurate place recognition but also produces interpretable reasoning processes alongside its predictions, significantly enhancing model transparency and explainability. The dataset and source code will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Neuromorphic_ReID
title EPRBench: A High-Quality Benchmark Dataset for Event Stream Based Visual Place Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12919