WORKSHOP PAPER
Physical Modeling and Parameter Extraction for Event-based Vision Sensors
Andreas Suess1, Menghan Guo1, Rui Jiang1, Xiaozheng Mou1, Qiping Huang1, Wenlei Yang1, Shoushun Chen1
1OMNIVISION, 4275 Burton Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA

Abstract

Latency and noise are crucial aspects of Event-based Vision Sensors. Yet, in simulators used to create synthetic event data these effects are predominantly modeled phenomenologically and are rarely calibrated to actual measurements or circuit simulations. This work presents a physics-based latency and noise model achieving strong resemblance with circuit simulations and measurements. The model is computationally efficient enough to be suitable for camera simulation. This enables accurate training data synthesis for algorithm development and guides sensor design.
Publisher: IISS (Int. Image Sensors Society)
Year: 2023
Workshop: IISW
URL: https://doi.org/10.60928/o8kk-2mew

Keywords

Event-based Vision Sensors, Latency and noise modeling, Circuit simulations,

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