The Prophesee event-based image sensor tracks changes of individual pixels and movement that can be useful in many applications.

Advantages of Event-Based Vision Systems

April 1, 2025

Prophesee Founder, Dr. Luca Verre, explains the importance and operation of event-based vision systems.

What you’ll learn:

What is event-based vision?
How do event-based vision systems work?
Why are event-based vision systems useful?

Conventional image sensors capture a frame at a time while event-based vision sensors track changes of individual pixels. In this episode of Inside Electronics, I talk with Dr. Luca Verre, Founder of Prophesee, about the company’s event-based sensor and how it works.

An event-based imaging system can detect changes more accurately while reducing bandwidth and power requirements, assuming all of the pixels don’t change between frames. This is often the case for many applications, especially when it comes to industrial imaging. The approach is also an ideal match for neomorphic computing, where spiking neural network (SNN) artificial-intelligence models are driven by event-based data.

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