arXiv:2605.28312cs.ROcs.CV2026-05中稿 · ICRA

用FPGA实现低功耗事件相机运动估计,不依赖浮点运算和帧重建。

EventShiftFlow: Towards Hardware-efficient FPGA-based Flow Estimation

论文配图:EventShiftFlow: Towards Hardware-efficient FPGA-based Flow Estimation
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  • 将异步事件分帧为固定时窗,用1位占据网格并行评估多速度假设。
  • 真实数据中方向准确率达99.5%,在10%-40%占用密度下表现稳定。
  • 仅需2kB存储,适合嵌入式平台,适用于避障等低延迟任务。

事件视觉传感器提供异步、高时间分辨率的测量,适用于低延迟机器人感知,但多数事件运动估计方法计算量大,难以映射到FPGA硬件。本文提出一种流式速度估计算法,将异步事件离散化为固定时长的时间窗口,构建1位空间占据网格,并仅使用固定宽度整数逻辑(移位寄存器、计数器、比较器、小规模LUT乘法)并行评估多个速度假设,无需除法器和DSP模块。该方法无需帧重构、无浮点运算,也无需迭代优化。它主动以稀疏量化速度估计替代密集亚像素光流,适用于尺寸、重量、功耗受限平台上的低延迟任务。在带有已知真值速度的噪声合成数据上,算法能恢复速度大小与方向,当不同速度物体交叠时大小估计受挑战。在真实事件相机序列中,四个运动段方向准确率均达99.5%,性能在10%-40%占用密度范围内保持稳健。我们分析了算法的密度依赖行为,进行了参数敏感性分析,表明所提数据通路存储需求小于2 kB,已在低成本Xilinx Artix-7上实现单轴原型。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Event-based vision sensors offer asynchronous, high-temporal-resolution measurements that are attractive for low-latency robotic perception, but many event-based motion estimation methods are computationally intensive and difficult to map to FPGA hardware. We present a streaming velocity estimator that discretizes asynchronous events into fixed-duration time bins, constructs a 1-bit spatial occupancy grid, and evaluates multiple velocity hypotheses in parallel using only fixed-width integer logic - shift registers, counters, comparators, and small LUT-mapped multiplies - with no dividers and no DSP blocks. It requires no frame reconstruction, no floating-point arithmetic, and no iterative optimization. The method deliberately trades dense sub-pixel optical flow for a sparse, quantized velocity estimate at each active pixel, suited to low-latency tasks such as reactive obstacle avoidance on size-, weight-, and power-constrained platforms. On noisy synthetic data with known ground-truth velocities, the method recovers both magnitude and direction, with magnitude estimates being most challenged when objects of different velocities intersect. On a real event-camera sequence, directional accuracy reaches 99.5% across all four evaluated motion segments, with performance remaining robust across occupancy densities in the 10-40% range. We characterize the algorithm's density-dependent behavior, present a parameter sensitivity analysis, show that the proposed datapath requires less than 2 kB of storage, and implement a single-axis prototype on a low-cost Xilinx Artix-7.

FPGA事件相机运动估计低功耗

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