Autofocus for event cameras

S Lin, Y Zhang, L Yu, B Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
… Our event-based autofocus system consists of an event camera and a motorized varifocal …
It leverages the proposed event-based focus measure and search method to focus the camera

Improving fast auto-focus with event polarity

Y Bao, L Sun, Y Ma, D Gu, K Wang - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
… is closest to our idea, which applies the event camera in AF for small depth-of-focus
microscopes. Interestingly, they found that events were mainly triggered symmetrically at both sides …

A robust autofocusing method for microscopic imaging based on an event camera

X Qu, C Ma, W Hu, H Den, S Yang - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
… An event camera is a high dynamic range vision sensor that can record slight brightness
changes in autofocus experiments under insufficient lighting. However, it leads to a reduction in …

Intensity-Robust Autofocus for Spike Camera

C Su, Z Ye, Y Xiao, Y Zhou, Z Cheng… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
… In contrast to the light intensity difference sampling mode of event cameras, spike cameras
are developed based on an integration sampling approach. The sampled results in Qs …

Focus is all you need: Loss functions for event-based vision

G Gallego, M Gehrig… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
… strong connections between the proposed metrics (Table 1) and those used for shape-from-focus
and autofocus in conventional, frame-based cameras [43, 44], and so, we called the …

Autobiasing Event Cameras

MS Dilmaghani, W Shariff, C Ryan, J Lemley… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
… Liu Jiawen [12] reviews the evolution of auto-focus methods, illustrating the importance of
hardware in achieving sharp images. Mallick et al. [22] characterize the noise in Kinect depth …

The influence of autofocus lenses in the camera calibration process

C Ricolfe-Viala, A Esparza - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of a camera with autofocus lenses modifying a well-known camera calibration process
with a set of rules that help to improve the method. Section II analyses the camera calibration …

Millisecond autofocusing microscopy using neuromorphic event sensing

Z Ge, H Wei, F Xu, Y Gao, Z Chu, HKH So… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2023 - Elsevier
… achieve fast autofocusing using the neuromorphic event sensing technology, which detects
… and processing of the non-redundant event data, allowing for autofocusing in only tens of …

All-in-focus Imaging from Event Focal Stack

H Lou, M Teng, Y Yang, B Shi - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
… [22] designed an auto-focus algorithm for event cameras to find the maximum event triggering
rate timestamp as the refocusing timestamp. However, the majority of events in the EFS …

Optimal defocus estimates from individual images for autofocusing a digital camera

J Burge, WS Geisler - Digital Photography VIII, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… Under broadband lighting, the camera’s autofocus mechanism was used to focus the
lens on the target. The temporary target was then removed. Next, a Siemens star square-wave …