event_camera_codecs
- Software
- Perception
- Library
A C++ decoder library, built for ROS1 and ROS2, that turns event camera data messages into per-event callbacks, with Python access through a separate package.
Made by ROS event camera support.
Source on GitHub: github.com/ros-event-camera/event_camera_codecs (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit a8373e2 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit a8373e2 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Decodes event camera messages in several encodings, including Prophesee's EVT3 and the libcaer formats from Inivation cameras.
- Offers a factory that creates a decoder from a message and feeds decoded events to a user-defined processor.
- Provides decodeUntil() so playback can stop at frame boundaries when synchronizing with frame-based sensors.
- Reports event timestamps in sensor time, in nanoseconds, and handles EVT3 timestamp wrap-around every 16.77 seconds.
- Includes a performance measurement tool for decoding raw EVT3 files, intended for developers.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit a8373e2.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Hardware it needs, as the project states it
- Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 with ROS1 Noetic, and on Ubuntu 22.04 with ROS2 Humble, Iron and Rolling.
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 6 Dec 2025 on master
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
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