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@article{survey_event_camera,
    title   = {Event Camera Vision in the Era of Large Models: A Survey},
    author  = {Lingdong Kong and Haiqian Han and Lai Xing Ng and Xiangyang Ji and Wei Tsang Ooi and Benoit R. Cottereau},
    journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:260x.xxxxx},
    year    = {2026}
}

Table of Contents

• 0. Background
• 1. Benchmarks & Datasets
  • Benchmarks
  • Workshops
  • Datasets
  • Simulators
• 2. Event Camera Perception
  • Object Detection
  • Semantic Segmentation
  • Depth Estimation
  • Optical Flow Estimation
  • Object Tracking
  • Action & Gesture Recognition
  • Human Pose Estimation
• 3. Event Camera Reconstruction
  • Event-based 2D Reconstruction
    • Discriminative Reconstruction Models
    • Generative Reconstruction Models
    • Self-Supervised & Pre-training Frameworks
  • Event-based 3D Reconstruction
    • Geometric & Semi-Dense Reconstruction
    • Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) with Events
    • 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with Events
    • Generalizable 3D Reconstruction
• 4. Event Camera Understanding
  • Event-Based Multimodal LLMs
  • CLIP-Based Event Understanding
  • Open-Vocabulary & Zero-Shot Understanding
  • Foundation Model Adaptation
  • Language-Guided Event Understanding
  • Self-Supervised Pre-training
  • Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer
  • Text-Guided Event Data Generation
• 5. Applications
  • Autonomous Driving
  • SLAM & Visual Odometry
  • UAV / Drone Vision
  • Robotics
  • Eye Tracking & Gaze Estimation
  • Space & Satellite
  • Medical & Biological Imaging
  • Industrial Inspection
  • Privacy-Preserving Vision
  • Neuromorphic Hardware Deployment
  • Adverse Weather Perception
  • High-Speed Photography & Sports
• 6. Other Resources
  • Tutorials
  • Talks & Seminars
  • Relevant Surveys
• 7. Acknowledgements

Background

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1. Benchmarks & Datasets

Benchmarks

Talk2Event	E-Deflare	EventFly
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Workshops

Theme	Venue	Date	Location	Recording
Workshop on Neuromorphic Perception for Real World Robotics (NeuRobots)	IROS 2025	October 24, 2025	Hangzhou	[YouTube]
Workshop on Event-Based Vision	IROS 2025	October 20, 2025	Hangzhou	-
The 2nd Workshop on Neuromorphic Vision (NeVi)	ICCV 2025	October 20, 2025	Honolulu	-
The 5th International Workshop on Event-Based Vision	CVPR 2025	June 12, 2025	Nashville	-
The 4th International Workshop on Event-Based Vision	CVPR 2023	June 19, 2023	Vancouver	[YouTube]
The 3rd International Workshop on Event-Based Vision	CVPR 2021	June 19, 2021	Virtual	[YouTube]
The 2nd International Workshop on Event-Based Vision	CVPR 2019	June 17, 2019	Long Beach	[YouTube]
The 1st International Workshop on Event-Based Vision	ICRA 2017	June 2, 2017	Singapore	[YouTube]

Datasets

Classification Datasets

Dataset	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
N-MNIST	Converting Static Image Datasets to Spiking Neuromorphic Datasets Using Saccades	Front. Neurosci. 2015	-	-
N-Caltech101	Converting Static Image Datasets to Spiking Neuromorphic Datasets Using Saccades	Front. Neurosci. 2015	-	-
CIFAR10-DVS	CIFAR10-DVS: An Event-Stream Dataset for Object Classification	Front. Neurosci. 2017	-	-
N-Cars	HATS: Histograms of Averaged Time Surfaces for Robust Event-based Object Classification	CVPR 2018	-	-
N-ImageNet	N-ImageNet: Towards Robust, Fine-Grained Object Recognition with Event Cameras	ICCV 2021	-
ES-ImageNet	ES-ImageNet: A Million Event-Stream Classification Dataset for Spiking Neural Networks	Front. Neurosci. 2021	-	-

Object Detection Datasets

Dataset	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
Gen1	A Large Scale Event-based Detection Dataset for Automotive	arXiv 2020	-	-
1Mpx	Learning to Detect Objects with a 1 Megapixel Event Camera	NeurIPS 2020	-	-
PEDRo	PEDRo: an Event-based Dataset for Person Detection in Robotics	CVPRW 2023	-	-
PKU-DAVIS-SOD	SODFormer: Streaming Object Detection with Transformer Using Events and Frames	TPAMI 2023	-	-
EvDET200K	Object Detection using Event Camera: A MoE Heat Conduction based Detector	CVPR 2025	-

Object Tracking Datasets

Dataset	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
FE108	Object Tracking by Jointly Exploiting Frame and Event Domain	ICCV 2021	-
VisEvent	VisEvent: Reliable Object Tracking via Collaboration of Frame and Event Flows	TCYB 2024	-
COESOT	Revisiting Color-Event based Tracking: A Unified Network, Dataset, and Metric	PR 2025	-
EventVOT	Event Stream-based Visual Object Tracking: A High-Resolution Benchmark Dataset and A Novel Baseline	CVPR 2024	-
FELT	Long-Term Visual Object Tracking with Event Cameras: An Associative Memory Augmented Tracker and A Benchmark Dataset	arXiv 2025	-
CRSOT	Cross-Resolution Object Tracking Using Unaligned Frame and Event Cameras	TMM 2025	-

General / Multi-Task Datasets

Dataset	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
DSEC	DSEC: A Stereo Event Camera Dataset for Driving Scenarios	RA-L 2021
DSEC-Semantic	ESS: Learning Event-based Semantic Segmentation from Still Images	ECCV 2022	-

Simulators

Simulator	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
ESIM	ESIM: an Open Event Camera Simulator	CoRL 2018	-
rpg_vid2e	Video to Events: Recycling Video Datasets for Event Cameras	CVPR 2020	-
v2e	v2e: From Video Frames to Realistic DVS Events	CVPRW 2021	-
DVS-Voltmeter	DVS-Voltmeter: Stochastic Process-Based Event Simulator for Dynamic Vision Sensors	ECCV 2022	-

2. Event Camera Perception

1️⃣ Object Detection

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
DVS-Detection	Pseudo-Labels for Supervised Learning on Dynamic Vision Sensor Data, Applied to Object Detection under Ego-Motion	CVPRW 2018	-	-
YOLE	Asynchronous Convolutional Networks for Object Detection in Neuromorphic Cameras	CVPRW 2019	-	-
MatrixLSTM	Learning to Detect Objects with a 1 Megapixel Event Camera	NeurIPS 2020	-	-
ASTMNet	Asynchronous Spatio-Temporal Memory Network for Continuous Event-Based Object Detection Asynchronous Spatio-Temporal Memory Network for Continuous Event-Based Object Detection	TIP 2022	-	-
AEGNN	AEGNN: Asynchronous Event-based Graph Neural Networks	CVPR 2022	-
RENet	RGB-Event Fusion for Moving Object Detection in Autonomous Driving	ICRA 2023	-
RVT	Recurrent Vision Transformers for Object Detection with Event Cameras	CVPR 2023	-
SAST	Scene Adaptive Sparse Transformer for Event-based Object Detection	CVPR 2024	-
SODFormer	SODFormer: Streaming Object Detection with Transformer Using Events and Frames	TPAMI 2023	-	-
SFNet	Segment-level Fusion for Event-RGB Object Detection	arXiv 2023	-	-
LEOD	LEOD: Label-Efficient Object Detection for Event Cameras	CVPR 2024	-
State-Space	State Space Models for Event Cameras	CVPR 2024 (Spotlight)	-
DAGR	Low-Latency Automotive Vision with Event Cameras	Nature 2024	-	-
RVT-2	RVT-2: Learning Precise Event-based Detection	arXiv 2024	-	-
GET	GET: Group Event Transformer for Event-Based Vision	ICCV 2023	-
OpenESS-Det	Adaptive Event Stream Slicing for Open-Vocabulary Event-Based Object Detection	arXiv 2025	-	-
MoE-HeatDet	Object Detection using Event Camera: A MoE Heat Conduction based Detector	CVPR 2025	-	-
EventFly	EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky	CVPR 2025		-
Ev-YOLO	Ev-YOLO: YOLO for Event Camera Object Detection	arXiv 2024	-	-
SFOD	SFOD: Spiking Fusion Object Detector	CVPR 2024	-	-
EvRGBDet	Improving RGB-Event Fusion for Object Detection	arXiv 2025	-	-

2️⃣ Semantic Segmentation

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EV-SegNet	EV-SegNet: Semantic Segmentation for Event-based Cameras	CVPRW 2019	-	-
Ev-SegNet+	Event-Based Semantic Segmentation via Dense Temporal Encoding	arXiv 2020	-	-
VID2E-Seg	Bridging the Gap between Events and Frames through Unsupervised Domain Adaptation	RA-L 2022	-
ESS	ESS: Learning Event-based Semantic Segmentation from Still Images	ECCV 2022	-
EvDistill	EvDistill: Asynchronous Events to End-task Learning via Bidirectional Reconstruction-guided Cross-modal Knowledge Distillation	CVPR 2021	-	-
EV-Transfer	Bridging the Gap between Events and Frames through Unsupervised Domain Adaptation	RA-L 2022	-
CMX	CMX: Cross-Modal Fusion for RGB-X Semantic Segmentation	TITS 2023	-
EISeg	Improving Event-based Semantic Segmentation with Temporal Consistency	ICCV 2023	-	-
HMNet	Hierarchical Neural Memory Network for Low Latency Event Processing	CVPR 2023	-
EventSAM	Segment Any Event Streams via Weighted Adaptation of Pivotal Tokens	CVPR 2024	-	-
SAM-E-Adapter	SAM-Event-Adapter: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Event-RGB Semantic Segmentation	ICRA 2024	-	-
OpenESS	OpenESS: Event-Based Semantic Scene Understanding with Open Vocabularies	CVPR 2024 (Highlight)	-	-
HALSIE	HALSIE: Hybrid Approach to Learning Segmentation by Simultaneously Exploiting Image and Event Modalities	WACV 2024	-	-
EvSAM	EvSAM: Segment Anything Model with Event-based Assistance	ACM TOMM 2025	-	-
OVOSE	OVOSE: Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Event-Based Cameras	arXiv 2024	-	-
SEAL	Segment Any Events with Language	ICLR 2026	-	-

3️⃣ Depth Estimation

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Monocular Depth Estimation

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EMDE	Event-Based Dense Reconstruction Pipeline	BMVC 2018	-	-
E2Depth	Learning Monocular Dense Depth from Events	3DV 2020	-
RAM-Net	Combining Events and Frames using Recurrent Asynchronous Multimodal Networks for Monocular Depth Prediction	RA-L 2021	-	-
HMNet-Depth	Hierarchical Neural Memory Network for Low Latency Event Processing	CVPR 2023	-
EReFormer	EReFormer: Event-based Recurrent Former for Monocular Depth Estimation	ECCV 2024	-	-
EMoDE	Learning Monocular Depth from Events via Egomotion Compensation	arXiv 2024	-	-
Depth AnyEvent	Depth Any Event Stream: Enhancing Event-based Monocular Depth Estimation via Dense-to-Sparse Distillation	ICCV 2025	-	-

Stereo Depth Estimation

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
DDES	Event-Based Real-Time Dense Depth Estimation with Learnable Embedding	arXiv 2017	-	-
MVSEC-Stereo	The Multivehicle Stereo Event Camera Dataset	RA-L 2018	-	-
StereoSpike	StereoSpike: Depth Learning with a Spiking Neural Network	arXiv 2021	-	-
DSGN-Event	Discrete Time Convolution for Fast Event-based Stereo	CVPR 2022	-	-
SDE-Net	Selection and Cross Similarity for Event-Image Deep Stereo	ECCV 2022	-
EvAC3D	Learning Parallax for Stereo Event-Based Motion Deblurring	ICCV 2023	-	-
E-Stereo-FUDA	Event-Based Stereo Depth Estimation from Ego-Motion using Ray Density Fusion	ECCV 2024	-	-
MS-SED	Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Event-based Stereo Depth Estimation	AAAI 2025	-	-
ESVO2	ESVO2: Direct Visual-Inertial Odometry with Stereo Event Cameras	TRO 2025	-	-

4️⃣ Optical Flow Estimation

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EV-FlowNet	EV-FlowNet: Self-Supervised Optical Flow Estimation for Event-based Cameras	RSS 2018	-	-
Spike-FlowNet	Spike-FlowNet: Event-Driven Optical Flow Estimation with Energy-Efficient Hybrid Neural Networks	ECCV 2020	-
E-RAFT	E-RAFT: Dense Optical Flow from Event Cameras	3DV 2022	-
DCEIFlow	DCEIFlow: Dense Cross-modal Event-Image Optical Flow	ECCV 2022	-
IDNet	Towards Bridging the Gap between Event and Frame-based Optical Flow	ICCV 2023	-	-
TMA	Tightly-Coupled Mid-Level Fusion for Event-RGB Optical Flow Estimation	CVPR 2023	-	-
BlinkFlow	BlinkFlow: A Dataset to Push the Limits of Event-based Optical Flow Estimation	IROS 2023	-	-
ECMD	Event Camera Motion Detection via Context-Guided Aggregation	ECCV 2024	-	-
M-RAFT	M-RAFT: Dense Event-based Optical Flow via Multi-scale Correlation	BMVC 2024	-	-
BFlow	BFlow: Learning Bidirectional Optical Flow for Event Cameras	CVPR 2025	-	-
EGMBA	Full-DoF Egomotion Estimation for Event Cameras Using Geometric Solvers	CVPR 2025	-	-

5️⃣ Object Tracking

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
FE108-Track	Object Tracking by Jointly Exploiting Frame and Event Domain	ICCV 2021	-	-
STNet	Spiking Transformers for Event-Based Single Object Tracking	CVPR 2022	-
CEUTrack	Revisiting Color-Event based Tracking: A Unified Network, Dataset, and Metric	PR 2025	-	-
AFNet	Frame-Event Alignment and Fusion Network for High Frame Rate Tracking	CVPR 2024	-	-
EventVOT-Track	Event Stream-based Visual Object Tracking: A High-Resolution Benchmark Dataset and A Novel Baseline	CVPR 2024	-	-
HDETrack	Cross-Resolution Object Tracking Using Unaligned Frame and Event Cameras	TMM 2025	-	-
eMoE-Tracker	Event-based Mamba for Object Tracking	ECCV 2024	-	-
TETrack	Long-Term Visual Object Tracking with Event Cameras	arXiv 2024	-	-
MambaEVT	Mamba-FETrack: Frame-Event Tracking via State Space Model	arXiv 2024	-	-
SiamEFT	Siamese Event-Frame Tracker	CVPR 2025	-	-
EventFly-Track	EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky	CVPR 2025		-

6️⃣ Action & Gesture Recognition

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
DVS-Gesture	A Low Power, Fully Event-Based Gesture Recognition System	CVPR 2017	-	-
PointNet-EVS	Space-Time Event Clouds for Gesture Recognition: From RGB Cameras to Event Cameras	CVPRW 2019	-	-
E2(GO)MOTION	E2(GO)MOTION: Motion Augmented Event Stream for Egocentric Action Recognition	CVPR 2022	-	-
ExACT	ExACT: Language-guided Conceptual Reasoning and Uncertainty Estimation for Event-based Action Recognition	CVPR 2024	-	-
EvAGT	Event-based Action and Gesture Transformer	ECCV 2024	-	-
TBR	Token-Based Representation for Event-Based Action Recognition	AAAI 2025	-	-
HARDVS-Method	HARDVS: Revisiting Human Activity Recognition with Dynamic Vision Sensors	AAAI 2024	-	-
DailyDVS-Method	DailyDVS-200: A Comprehensive Benchmark Dataset for Event-Based Action Recognition	ECCV 2024	-	-
EvSign	Event-based Sign Language Recognition	arXiv 2024	-	-
EventFly-Action	EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky	CVPR 2025		-

7️⃣ Human Pose Estimation

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
DHP19-Method	DHP19: Dynamic Vision Sensor 3D Human Pose Dataset	CVPRW 2019	-	-
EventCap	EventCap: Monocular 3D Capture of High-Speed Human Motions using an Event Camera	CVPR 2020	-	-
EvHand	Event-based Interleaving Hand Tracking and Reconstruction	ICCV 2023	-	-
EventEgo3D	3D Human Pose Estimation from Egocentric Event Camera	CVPR 2024	-	-
EventHPE	Lifting Monocular Events to 3D Human Poses	CVPR 2024	-	-
EventHandPose	Complementing Event Streams and RGB Frames for Hand Mesh Reconstruction	ICCV 2023	-	-
E-POSE	E-POSE: A Large Scale Event Camera Dataset for Object Pose Estimation	Sci. Data 2025	-	-
EHPT-XC	A Benchmark Dataset for Event-Guided Human Pose Estimation and Tracking in Extreme Conditions	NeurIPS 2024	-	-
EvRGBHand	EvRGBHand: Complementing Event Streams and RGB Frames for Hand Mesh Reconstruction	CVPR 2024	-	-

3. Event Camera Reconstruction

See Section 1: Datasets for reconstruction-specific datasets.

Event-based 2D Reconstruction

Discriminative Reconstruction Models

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
E2VID	Events-to-Video: Bringing Modern Computer Vision to Event Cameras	CVPR 2019	-
mEDI	IEEE Paper Bringing a Blurry Frame Alive at High Frame-Rate with an Event Camera	CVPR 2019	-
E2VID+	Reducing the Sim-to-Real Gap for Event Cameras	ECCV 2020
eSL-Net	ECCV Paper Event Enhanced High-Quality Image Recovery	ECCV 2020	-
SPADE-E2VID	IEEE Paper SPADE-E2VID: Spatially-Adaptive Denormalization for Event-Based Video Reconstruction	TIP 2021	-
TimeLens	CVPR Paper TimeLens: Event-based Video Frame Interpolation	CVPR 2021
ET-Net	ICCV Paper Event-based Video Reconstruction Using Transformer	ICCV 2021	-
E-CIR	E-CIR: Event-Enhanced Continuous Intensity Recovery	CVPR 2022	-
STIR	Learning Spatial-Temporal Implicit Neural Representations for Event-Guided Video Super-Resolution	CVPR 2022
EVSNN	Event-based Video Reconstruction via Potential-assisted Spiking Neural Network	CVPR 2022	-
EFNet	ECCV Paper Event-Based Fusion for Motion Deblurring with Cross-modal Attention	ECCV 2022
SuperFast	IEEE Paper SuperFast: 200× Video Frame Interpolation via Event Camera	TPAMI 2023	-
eSL-Net++	Learning to Super-Resolve Blurry Images with Events	TPAMI 2023	-
E-SAI	TPAMI Paper Learning to See Through with Events	TPAMI 2023
REFID	Event-Based Frame Interpolation with Ad-hoc Deblurring	CVPR 2023	-
CBMNet	CVPR Paper Event-Based Video Frame Interpolation With Cross-Modal Asymmetric Bidirectional Motion Fields	CVPR 2023	-
Revisit-EBVFI	Revisiting Event-Based Video Frame Interpolation	IROS 2023		-
NeurImg-HDR	Google Drive Hybrid High Dynamic Range Imaging Fusing Neuromorphic and Conventional Images	TPAMI 2023	-
HDRev-Net	CVPR Paper Learning Event Guided High Dynamic Range Video Reconstruction	CVPR 2023	-
EvLowLight	ICCV Paper Coherent Event Guided Low-Light Video Enhancement	ICCV 2023
TimeLens-XL	ECCV Paper TimeLens-XL: Real-Time Event-Based Video Frame Interpolation with Large Motion	ECCV 2024
DA-Deblur	ECCV Paper Motion Aware Event Representation-Driven Image Deblurring	ECCV 2024	-
UniINR	UniINR: Event-Guided Unified Rolling Shutter Correction, Deblurring, and Interpolation	ECCV 2024	-
HyperE2VID	HyperE2VID: Improving Event-Based Video Reconstruction via Hypernetworks	TIP 2024	-
NER-Net	CVPR Paper Seeing Motion at Nighttime with an Event Camera	CVPR 2024	-
EVFI-DS	CVPR Paper Video Frame Interpolation via Direct Synthesis with the Event-based Reference	CVPR 2024	-	-
EvLight	Towards Robust Event-Guided Low-Light Image Enhancement: A Large-Scale Real-World Event-Image Dataset and Novel Approach	CVPR 2024
Noise2Image	Noise2Image: Noise-Enabled Static Scene Recovery for Event Cameras	Optica 2025	-
EvTexture	EvTexture: Event-driven Texture Enhancement for Video Super-Resolution	ICML 2024	-
ELEDNet	ECCV Paper Towards Real-World Event-Guided Low-Light Video Enhancement and Deblurring	ECCV 2024	-
STLR	ECCV Paper Spike-temporal Latent Representation for Energy-Efficient Event-to-Video Reconstruction	ECCV 2024	-	-
MamEVSR	CVPR Paper Event-based Video Super-Resolution via State Space Models	CVPR 2025	-	-
EvLight++	IEEE Paper EvLight++: Low-Light Video Enhancement With an Event Camera: A Large-Scale Real-World Dataset, Novel Method, and More	TPAMI 2026	-

Generative Reconstruction Models

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
cGAN-E2V	CVPR Paper Event-Based High Dynamic Range Image and Very High Frame Rate Video Generation Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks	CVPR 2019	-	-
E2VIDiff	E2VIDiff: Perceptual Events-to-Video Reconstruction using Diffusion Priors	arXiv 2024	-	-
TRG-Diffusion	ECCV Paper Temporal Residual Guided Diffusion Framework for Event-Driven Video Reconstruction	ECCV 2024	-	-
REVDM	CVPR Paper Repurposing Pre-trained Video Diffusion Models for Event-based Video Interpolation	CVPR 2025
EGDeblurring	CVPR Paper Diffusion-based Event Generation for High-Quality Image Deblurring	CVPR 2025	-

Self-Supervised & Pre-training Frameworks

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	ECCV Paper Learning to See in the Dark with Events	ECCV 2020	-	-
-	Back to Event Basics: Self-Supervised Learning of Image Reconstruction for Event Cameras via Photometric Constancy	CVPR 2021	-	-
TimeReplayer	TimeReplayer: Unlocking the Potential of Event Cameras for Video Interpolation	CVPR 2022		-
EVDI	CVPR Paper Unifying Motion Deblurring and Frame Interpolation with Events	CVPR 2022	-
-	Event Camera Data Pre-training	ICCV 2023	-
SAN	Generalizing Event-Based Motion Deblurring in Real-World Scenarios	ICCV 2023	-
EvDeraining	ICCV Paper Unsupervised Video Deraining with an Event Camera	ICCV 2023	-
MEM	Masked Event Modeling: Self-Supervised Pretraining for Event Cameras	WACV 2024	-
EvINR	Revisit Event Generation Model: Self-Supervised Learning of Event-to-Video Reconstruction with Implicit Neural Representations	ECCV 2024
Sim2Real-EVFI	From Sim-to-Real: Toward General Event-Based Low-Light Frame Interpolation with Per-Scene Optimization	SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Event-based 3D Reconstruction

Geometric & Semi-Dense Reconstruction

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EMVS	IJCV Paper EMVS: Event-based Multi-View Stereo—3D Reconstruction with an Event Camera in Real-Time	IJCV 2018	-
-	Semi-Dense 3D Reconstruction with a Stereo Event Camera	ECCV 2018	-	-
EventPS	CVPR Paper EventPS: Real-Time Photometric Stereo Using an Event Camera	CVPR 2024	-	Codeberg

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) with Events

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
Ev-NeRF	Ev-NeRF: Event Based Neural Radiance Field	WACV 2023	-	-
EventNeRF	EventNeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Colour Event Camera	CVPR 2023	-
E-NeRF	E-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from a Moving Event Camera	RA-L 2023	-
E2NeRF	ICCV Paper E2NeRF: Event Enhanced Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Images	ICCV 2023	-
Robust-e-NeRF	Robust e-NeRF: NeRF from Sparse & Noisy Events under Non-Uniform Motion	ICCV 2023
DE-NeRF	Deformable Neural Radiance Fields using RGB and Event Cameras	ICCV 2023
EvDNeRF	WACV Paper EvDNeRF: Reconstructing Event Data with Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields	WACV 2024
PAEv3d	Physical Priors Augmented Event-Based 3D Reconstruction	ICRA 2024	-
EvDeblurNeRF	Mitigating Motion Blur in Neural Radiance Fields with Events and Frames	CVPR 2024	-
EBAD-NeRF	Deblurring Neural Radiance Fields with Event-Driven Bundle Adjustment	ACM MM 2024
BeNeRF	BeNeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Blurry Image and Event Stream	ECCV 2024
E3NeRF	E3NeRF: Efficient Event-Enhanced Neural Radiance Fields from Blurry Images	arXiv 2024
Deblur-e-NeRF	Deblur e-NeRF: NeRF from Motion-Blurred Events under High-speed or Low-light Conditions	ECCV 2024
Event-ID	ACM MM Paper Event-ID: Intrinsic Decomposition Using an Event Camera	ACM MM 2024	-	-
AE-NeRF	AE-NeRF: Augmenting Event-Based Neural Radiance Fields for Non-ideal Conditions and Larger Scenes	AAAI 2025	-	-
EvHDR-NeRF	EvHDR-NeRF: Building High Dynamic Range Radiance Fields with Single Exposure Images and Events	AAAI 2025
LSE-NeRF	LSE-NeRF: Learning Sensor Modeling Errors for Deblurred Neural Radiance Fields with RGB-Event Stereo	3DV 2025
SaENeRF	SaENeRF: Suppressing Artifacts in Event-based Neural Radiance Fields	arXiv 2025	-
DynEventNeRF	Dynamic EventNeRF: Reconstructing General Dynamic Scenes from Multi-view RGB and Event Streams	CVPR Workshop 2025	-
EventNeuS	EventNeuS: 3D Mesh Reconstruction from a Single Event Camera	3DV 2026		-

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with Events

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EvGGS	EvGGS: A Collaborative Learning Framework for Event-based Generalizable Gaussian Splatting	arXiv 2024	-
EvaGaussians	EvaGaussians: Event Stream Assisted Gaussian Splatting from Blurry Images	ICCV 2025
Event3DGS	Event3DGS: Event-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting for High-Speed Robot Egomotion	CoRL 2024		-
EaDeblur-GS	EaDeblur-GS: Event Assisted 3D Deblur Reconstruction with Gaussian Splatting	arXiv 2024	-	-
Ev-GS	Ev-GS: Event-Based Gaussian Splatting for Efficient and Accurate Radiance Field Rendering	MLSP 2024	-	-
E2GS	IEEE Paper E2GS: Event Enhanced Gaussian Splatting	ICIP 2024	-
Ev3DGS	IEEE Paper Ev3DGS: Event Enhanced 3D Gaussian Splatting from Blurry Images	APSIPA ASC 2024	-	-
IncEventGS	IncEventGS: Pose-Free Gaussian Splatting from a Single Event Camera	CVPR 2025	-
EF-3DGS	EF-3DGS: Event-Aided Free-Trajectory 3D Gaussian Splatting	arXiv 2024		-
E-3DGS	E-3DGS: Gaussian Splatting with Exposure and Motion Events	arXiv 2024	-
EventBoosted-3DGS	Event-Boosted Deformable 3D Gaussians for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction	ICCV 2025	-	-
Event-3DGS	NeurIPS Paper Event-3DGS: Event-Based 3D Reconstruction Using 3D Gaussian Splatting	NeurIPS 2024	-
SweepEvGS	SweepEvGS: Event-Based 3D Gaussian Splatting for Macro and Micro Radiance Field Rendering from a Single Sweep	TCSVT 2025	-	-
EventSplat	EventSplat: 3D Gaussian Splatting from Moving Event Cameras for Real-Time Rendering	CVPR 2025	-	-
BeSplat	WACV Paper BeSplat: Gaussian Splatting from a Single Blurry Image and Event Stream	WACVW 2025
DiET-GS	CVPR Paper DiET-GS: Diffusion Prior and Event Stream-Assisted Motion Deblurring 3D Gaussian Splatting	CVPR 2025
EBAD-Gaussian	EBAD-Gaussian: Event-Driven Bundle Adjusted Deblur Gaussian Splatting	arXiv 2025	-	-

Generalizable 3D Reconstruction

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
Elite-EvGS	Elite-EvGS: Learning Event-based 3D Gaussian Splatting by Distilling Event-to-Video Priors	arXiv 2024		-

4. Event Camera Understanding

This section covers methods at the intersection of event cameras and large-scale pre-trained models (LLMs, VLMs, MLLMs, foundation models).

Event-Based Multimodal LLMs

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
LLM Zero-Shot	Can Large Language Models Grasp Event Signals? Exploring Pure Zero-Shot Event-based Recognition	ICASSP 2025	-	-
EventGPT	EventGPT: Event Stream Understanding with Multimodal Large Language Models	CVPR 2025	-	-
LLM-EvRep	Learning an LLM-Compatible Event Representation Using a Self-Supervised Framework	WWW Companion 2025	-	-
EventVL	EventVL: Understand Event Streams via Multimodal Large Language Model	arXiv 2025	-	-
EventFlash	EventFlash: Towards Efficient MLLMs for Event-Based Vision	arXiv 2026	-	-

CLIP-Based Event Understanding

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EventCLIP	EventCLIP: Adapting CLIP for Event-based Object Recognition	arXiv 2023	-	-
ExACT	ExACT: Language-guided Conceptual Reasoning and Uncertainty Estimation for Event-based Action Recognition	CVPR 2024	-	-
EventBind	EventBind: Learning a Unified Representation to Bind Them All for Event-based Open-world Understanding	ECCV 2024	-	-
CEIA	CEIA: CLIP-Based Event-Image Alignment for Open-World Event-Based Understanding	arXiv 2024	-	-
Expanding Event	Expanding Event Modality Applications through a Robust CLIP-Based Encoder	arXiv 2024	-	-
EZSR	EZSR: Event-based Zero-Shot Recognition	CVPR 2025	-	-

Open-Vocabulary & Zero-Shot Understanding

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
OpenESS	OpenESS: Event-Based Semantic Scene Understanding with Open Vocabularies	CVPR 2024 (Highlight)	-	-
OVOSE	OVOSE: Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Event-Based Cameras	arXiv 2024	-	-
OV-Detection	Adaptive Event Stream Slicing for Open-Vocabulary Event-Based Object Detection	arXiv 2025	-	-
SEAL	Segment Any Events with Language	ICLR 2026	-	-

Foundation Model Adaptation

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EventSAM	Segment Any Event Streams via Weighted Adaptation of Pivotal Tokens	CVPR 2024	-	-
SAM-Event-Adapter	SAM-Event-Adapter: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Event-RGB Semantic Segmentation	ICRA 2024	-	-
Spike-DINOv2	A Novel Energy-Efficient Spike Transformer Network for Depth Estimation via Cross-modality Knowledge Distillation	arXiv 2024	-	-
EvSAM	EvSAM: Segment Anything Model with Event-based Assistance	ACM TOMM 2025	-	-
Semantic-E2VID	Exploring The Missing Semantics In Event Modality	arXiv 2025	-	-
TGVFM	Temporal-Guided Visual Foundation Models for Event-Based Vision	arXiv 2025	-	-

Language-Guided Event Understanding

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
Ev-LaFOR	Label-Free Event-based Object Recognition via Joint Learning with Image Reconstruction from Events	ICCV 2023 (Oral)	-	-
EventDance++	EventDance++: Language-guided Unsupervised Source-free Cross-modal Adaptation for Event-based Object Recognition	arXiv 2024	-	-
NeuroViG	NeuroViG: Integrating Event Cameras for Resource-Efficient Video Grounding	WACV 2025	-	-
EP-VLM	Event-Priori-Based Vision-Language Model for Efficient Visual Understanding	arXiv 2025	-	-
Talk2Event	Talk2Event: Grounded Understanding of Dynamic Scenes from Event Cameras	NeurIPS 2025		-
E-VLA	E-VLA: Event-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for Dark and Blurred Scenes	arXiv 2026	-	-

Self-Supervised Pre-training

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
ECDP	Event Camera Data Pre-training	ICCV 2023	-	-
MEM	Masked Event Modeling: Self-Supervised Pretraining for Event Cameras	WACV 2024	-	-
DECP	Data-efficient Event Camera Pre-training via Disentangled Masked Modeling	arXiv 2024	-	-
ECDP-Dense	Event Camera Data Dense Pre-training	ECCV 2024	-	-
SD2Event	SD2Event: Self-supervised Learning of Dynamic Detectors and Contextual Descriptors for Event Cameras	CVPR 2024	-	-
EvRepSL	Event-Stream Representation via Self-Supervised Learning for Event-Based Vision	TIP 2024	-	-
TESPEC	Temporally-Enhanced Self-Supervised Pretraining for Event Cameras	ICCV 2025	-	-
STP	Efficient Event Camera Data Pretraining with Adaptive Prompt Fusion	ICCV 2025	-	-
EventPretrain	Revealing Latent Information: A Physics-inspired Self-supervised Pre-training Framework	ACM MM 2025	-	-
CM3AE	A Unified RGB Frame and Event-Voxel/-Frame Pre-training Framework	ACM MM 2025	-	-

Cross-Modal Knowledge Transfer

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EventDance	EventDance: Unsupervised Source-free Cross-modal Adaptation for Event-based Object Recognition	CVPR 2024	-	-
S5-ViT	State Space Models for Event Cameras	CVPR 2024 (Spotlight)	-	-
EventFly	EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky	CVPR 2025		-
Depth AnyEvent	Depth Any Event Stream: Enhancing Event-based Monocular Depth Estimation via Dense-to-Sparse Distillation	ICCV 2025	-	-
FFEvent	FFEvent: Fast Fourier-based Knowledge Transfer for Event Cameras	Expert Systems with Applications 2026	-	-

Text-Guided Event Data Generation

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
Text-to-Events	Text-to-Events: Synthetic Event Camera Streams from Conditional Text Input	NICE 2024	-	-
ControlEvents	ControlEvents: Controllable Synthesis of Event Camera Data with Foundational Prior from Image Diffusion Models	arXiv 2025	-	-

5. Applications

Autonomous Driving

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	Event-Based Vision Meets Deep Learning on Steering Prediction for Self-Driving Cars	CVPR 2018	-	-
DDD20	DDD20 End-to-End Event Camera Driving Dataset	ITSC 2020	-	-
ESS	ESS: Learning Event-Based Semantic Segmentation from Still Images	ECCV 2022	-	-
SODFormer	Streaming Object Detection with Transformer Using Events and Frames	TPAMI 2023	-	-
DAGR	Low-Latency Automotive Vision with Event Cameras	Nature 2024	-	-

SLAM & Visual Odometry

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
CMax	A Unifying Contrast Maximization Framework for Event Cameras	CVPR 2018	-	-
EVO	Event-Based, 6-DOF Camera Tracking from Photometric Depth Maps	TPAMI 2018	-	-
Ultimate SLAM	Ultimate SLAM? Combining Events, Images, and IMU for Robust Visual SLAM	RA-L 2018	-	-
ESVIO	ESVIO: Event-Based Stereo Visual-Inertial Odometry	RA-L + IROS 2023	-	-
PL-EVIO	PL-EVIO: Robust Monocular Event-Based Visual Inertial Odometry with Point and Line Features	T-ASE 2023	-	-
EVI-SAM	EVI-SAM: Robust, Real-Time, Tightly-Coupled Event-Visual-Inertial State Estimation and 3D Dense Mapping	Adv. Intell. Sys. 2024	-	-
EN-SLAM	Implicit Event-RGBD Neural SLAM	CVPR 2024	-	-
CMax-SLAM	CMax-SLAM: Event-Based Rotational-Motion Bundle Adjustment and SLAM System	arXiv 2024	-	-
ESVO2	ESVO2: Direct Visual-Inertial Odometry with Stereo Event Cameras	TRO 2025	-	-
-	Full-DoF Egomotion Estimation for Event Cameras Using Geometric Solvers	CVPR 2025	-	-

UAV / Drone Vision

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
UZH-FPV	The UZH-FPV Drone Racing Dataset	ICRA 2019	-	-
-	Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance for Quadrotors with Event Cameras	Science Robotics 2020	-	-
-	Event-Based Navigation for Autonomous Drone Racing with Sparse Gated Recurrent Network	2022	-	-
-	Taming Event Cameras with Bio-Inspired Architecture and Algorithm: A Case for Drone Obstacle Avoidance	MobiCom 2023	-	-
-	Monocular Event-Based Vision for Obstacle Avoidance with a Quadrotor	CoRL 2024	-	-
EvMAPPER	EvMAPPER: High Altitude Orthomapping with Event Cameras	ICRA 2025	-	-
EventFly	EventFly: Event Camera Perception from Ground to the Sky	CVPR 2025		-

Robotics

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	Neuromorphic Sequence Learning with an Event Camera on Routes Through Vegetation	Science Robotics 2023	-	-
-	A Novel Bioinspired Neuromorphic Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Fast Tactile Perception	2024	-	-
-	A Neuromorphic Approach to Obstacle Avoidance in Robot Manipulation	IJRR 2025	-	-
E-VLA	E-VLA: Event-Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model for Dark and Blurred Scenes	arXiv 2026	-	-

Eye Tracking & Gaze Estimation

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
EV-Eye	Rethinking High-frequency Eye Tracking through the Lenses of Event Cameras	NeurIPS 2023	-	-
3ET	3ET: Efficient Event-based Eye Tracking using a Change-based ConvLSTM	IEEE BioCAS 2023	-	-
Retina	Retina: Low-Power Eye Tracking with Event Camera and Spiking Hardware	CVPRW 2024	-	-
-	Event-Based, Near-Eye Gaze Tracking Beyond 10,000 Hz	IEEE TVCG 2024	-	-
Swift-Eye	Towards Anti-blink Pupil Tracking for Precise and Robust Near-Eye Movement Analysis with Event Cameras	IEEE TVCG 2024	-	-

Space & Satellite

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	Star Tracking using an Event Camera	CVPRW 2019	-	-
FIESTA	Real-Time Event-Based Unsupervised Feature Consolidation and Tracking for Space Situational Awareness	Front. Neurosci. 2022	-	-
-	Asynchronous Kalman Filter for Event-Based Star Tracking	NeurIPS Workshop 2023	-	-
EBS-EKF	EBS-EKF: Accurate and High Frequency Event-based Star Tracking	CVPR 2025	-	-
e-STURT	Event-based Star Tracking under Spacecraft Jitter: the e-STURT Dataset	arXiv 2025	-	-

Medical & Biological Imaging

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	Event-driven Acquisition for Content-enriched Microscopy	Nature Methods 2021	-	-
PDAVIS	PDAVIS: Bio-Inspired Polarization Event Camera	CVPRW 2023	-	-
Eve-SMLM	Event-Based Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy	Nature Methods 2023	-	-
EventLFM	Event Camera Integrated Fourier Light Field Microscopy for Ultrafast 3D Imaging	Light: Sci. & App. (Nature) 2024	-	-
IEIM	Inter-event Interval Microscopy for Event Cameras	arXiv 2025	-	-

Industrial Inspection

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	Surface Defect Detection Competition with a Bio-inspired Vision Sensor	National Science Review 2023	-	-
-	High-Performance Surface Defect Detection of Aluminum Substrate Based on Event Camera	J. Comp. Design & Eng. 2024	-	-
-	Event-based Particle Image Velocimetry for High-speed Flows	Meas. Sci. Tech. 2025	-	-

Privacy-Preserving Vision

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	Neuromorphic Event-based Face Identity Recognition	IEEE FG 2022	-	-
-	Person Re-Identification without Identification via Event Anonymization	arXiv 2023	-	-
E2PRIV	E2PRIV: Privacy-Preserving Event-to-Video Reconstruction	2024	-	-
-	Event Anonymization: Privacy-Preserving Person Re-Identification and Pose Estimation	TPAMI 2024	-	-
-	Neuromorphic Face Analysis: A Survey	PR Letters 2024	-	-

Neuromorphic Hardware Deployment

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
Speck	Speck: A Smart Event-based Vision Sensor with a Low Latency 327K Neuron CNN Processing Pipeline	arXiv 2023	-	-
-	Event-driven Vision and Control for UAVs on a Neuromorphic Chip	RA-L 2023	-	-
-	Neuromorphic Optical Flow and Real-time Implementation with Event Cameras	CVPRW 2023	-	-
-	Low-power Event-based Face Detection with Asynchronous Neuromorphic Hardware	arXiv 2023	-	-

Adverse Weather Perception

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	A Novel Rain Removal Approach for Outdoor Dynamic Vision Sensor Event Videos	Front. Neurorobotics 2022	-	-
EvDeraining	Unsupervised Video Deraining with an Event Camera	ICCV 2023	-	-
-	Event-Based De-Snowing for Autonomous Driving	arXiv 2025	-	-
PRE-Mamba	PRE-Mamba: A 4D State Space Model for Ultra-High-Frequent Event Camera Deraining	ICCV 2025	-	-

High-Speed Photography & Sports

⏲️ In chronological order, from the earliest to the latest.

Model	Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
-	Event-based High-speed Ball Detection in Sports Video	ACM MMSports 2023	-	-
-	Event-based Ball Spin Estimation in Sports	CVPRW 2024	-	-
-	Time-consistent Ball Tracking and Spin Estimation with Event Camera	ACM MMSports 2024	-	-

6. Other Resources

Tutorials

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Talks & Seminars

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Relevant Surveys

Paper	Venue	Website	GitHub
Event-Based Vision: A Survey	TPAMI 2022	-
Deep Learning for Event-Based Vision: A Comprehensive Survey and Benchmarks	arXiv 2023	-
Event-Based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: A Comprehensive Survey	arXiv 2023	-
An Application-Driven Survey on Event-Based Neuromorphic Computer Vision	Information 2024	-	-
Event Cameras in Automotive Sensing: A Review	IEEE Access 2024	-	-
Recent Event Camera Innovations: A Survey	ECCVW 2024	-
Deep Event-Based Object Detection in Autonomous Driving: A Survey	arXiv 2024	-	-
Event-Based Stereo Depth Estimation: A Survey	TPAMI 2025	-
Event-Based Vision Application on Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: A Systematic Review of Prospects and Challenges	Sensors 2025	-	-
Event Camera Meets Mobile Embodied Perception: Abstraction, Algorithm, Acceleration, Application	ACM Computing Surveys 2025	-	-
A Survey of 3D Reconstruction with Event Cameras	arXiv 2025	-	-
Event Camera Guided Visual Media Restoration & 3D Reconstruction: A Survey	arXiv 2025	-	-

7. Acknowledgements

To be added.