E-TIDE: Fast, Structure-Preserving Motion Forecasting from Event Sequences

Published July 2, 2026 · Category: Robotics

Overview

arXiv:2603.27757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Event-based cameras capture visual information as asynchronous streams of per-pixel brightness changes, generating sparse, temporally precise data. Compared to conventional frame-based sensors, they offer significant advantages in capturing high-speed dynamics while consuming substantially less power. Predicting future event representations from past observations is an important problem, enabling downstream tasks such as future semantic segmentation or object tracking without requiring access to future sensor measurements. While recent state-of-the-art approaches achieve strong performance, they often rely on computationally heavy backbones and, in some cases, large-scale pretraining, limiting their applicability in resource-constrained scenarios. In this work, we introduce E-TIDE, a lightweight, end-to-end trainable architecture for event-tensor prediction that is designed to operate efficiently without large-scale pretraining. Our approach employs the TIDE module (Temporal Interaction for Dynamic Events), motivated by efficient spatiotemporal interaction design for sparse event tensors, to capture temporal dependencies via large-kernel mixing and activity-aware gating while maintaining low computational complexity. Experiments on standard event-based datasets demonstrate that our method achieves competitive performance with significantly reduced model size and training requirements, making it well-suited for real-time deployment under tight latency and memory budgets.

Source

Originally published at arxiv.org.

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