Spiking Patches: Asynchronous, Sparse, and Efficient Tokens for Event Cameras

arXiv — cs.CV•Friday, October 31, 2025 at 4:00:00 AM

A new development in event camera technology has emerged with the introduction of Spiking Patches, a tokenizer designed to efficiently handle asynchronous and sparse event data. This innovation is significant because it aims to maintain the unique properties of event streams, unlike previous methods that relied on frames or voxels, which compromised spatial sparsity. By improving how events are represented, this advancement could lead to more accurate and efficient processing in various applications, making it a noteworthy step forward in the field.

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