Place Recognition with Event-based Cameras and a Neural Implementation of SeqSLAM

Event-based cameras (Figure 1) offer much potential to the fields of robotics and computer vision, in part due to their large dynamic range and extremely high “frame rates”. These attributes make them, at least in theory, particularly suitable for enabling tasks like navigation and mapping on high speed robotic platforms under challenging lighting conditions, a task which has been particularly challenging for traditional algorithms and camera sensors. Before these tasks become feasible however, progress must be made towards adapting and innovating current RGB-camera-based algorithms to work with eventbased cameras. In this paper we present ongoing research investigating two distinct approaches to incorporating event-based cameras for robotic navigation: