A Challenge on Event-based State Estimation for High-Speed Maneuvers

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Introduction

We introduce a benchmarking framework for the task of event-based state estimation, featuring: (1) a novel dataset that complements missing characteristics in existing ones, and (2) a novel evaluation metric that can fairly measure the operation boundaries of event-based solutions. This framework is instantiated through an IROS 2025 Workshop challenge that benchmarks state-of-the-art methods, yielding insights into optimal architectures and persistent challenges.

Objectives

  • Providing a quantitative assessment on how much of the potential of event cameras for handling aggressive maneuvers in stateestimation tasks has been unlocked.
  • Providing a sufficient variation in data collection platforms, covering a wide scope of challenging motion patterns under a clear and rigorous definition of high-speed maneuvers for mobile robots.
  • Determining the optimal design through comprehensive benchmarking of all state-of-the-art solutions using the proposed dataset and evaluation metrics, while analyzing any remaining gaps in knowledge transfer and commercialization.

Timeline

  • Start Time: July 1, 2025
  • End Time: September 30, 2025
  • Winners announcement: October 1, 2025
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    June 8, 2025
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    Organizing Team

    Challenge Organizers

    Junkai Niu
    Junkai Niu

    HNU Logo HNU, NAIL Lab

    Sheng Zhong
    Sheng Zhong

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    Kaizhen Sun
    Kaizhen Sun

    HNU Logo HNU, NAIL Lab

    Yi Zhou
    Yi Zhou

    HNU Logo HNU, NAIL Lab

    Advisory Board

    Davide Scaramuzza
    Davide Scaramuzza

    UZH Logo UZH, RPG Lab

    Guillermo Gallego
    Guillermo Gallego

    HNU Logo TU Berlin, Robotic Interactive Perception Lab

    License

    All datasets and benchmarks on this page are copyright by us and published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.