Event-Based Vision Became a More Visible Early Signal

Relationship to Annual Outlook: Refines the Outlook

9/23/2021

Summary

Event-based vision remains early, but recent evidence suggests it is becoming more visible across software, evaluation kits, sensor development and commercial ecosystem activity. The Signal is still not mainstream adoption; it is that event vision has moved from a research-only curiosity toward a technology worth active monitoring.

Supporting Evidence

The evidence appears across Vision Systems Design and Image Sensors World. It includes software suites, open-source tools, sensor evaluation kits, Sony-Prophesee activity and stacked event-based sensors.

Evidence Base

23 Feb 2021 — Event-based technology software suite includes algorithms and code examples
https://www.vision-systems.com/boards-software/article/14198132/event_based_vision_software_metavision_intelligence_suite_from_prophesee
7 Apr 2021 — Prophesee releases open-source event-based software library
https://www.vision-systems.com/boards-software/article/14200880/machine-learning-event-based-openeb-tools-prophesee
14 May 2021 — Evaluation kit for Gen4.1 HD event-based image sensor
https://www.vision-systems.com/boards-software/article/14203281/evaluation-kit-for-gen41-hd-event-based-image-sensor
9 Sep 2021 — Sony Announces Two 4.86um Pixel Event-Based Sensors Developed with Prophesee
https://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2021/09/sony-announces-two-486um-pixel-event.html
23 Sep 2021 — Stacked event-based image sensors provide efficient data acquisition
https://www.vision-systems.com/cameras-accessories/article/14210905/stacked-event-based-image-sensors-provide-efficient-data-acquisition

Why It Matters

This refines the Outlook’s uncertainty around event vision. The technology still lacks broad adoption evidence, but the ecosystem signal is stronger than at the beginning of the year.

Technology Themes

Event Vision, Sensor Architecture, Embedded Vision, Low-Latency Perception

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