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Quanta Perception as Probabilistic Events

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 27, 2026 · UTC

Autonomous systems rely on extracting information from light, yet remain brittle in extreme environments, from nighttime navigation to high-speed robotics. Conventional sensors aggregate photons over fixed exposures, imposing trade-offs between sensitivity, dynamic range, and temporal resolution that degrade perception when photons are scarce or dynamics are rapid. Quanta sensors detect individual photons, but their streams exceed real-time compute and latency budgets by orders of magnitude. Here we introduce $\textit{probabilistic events}$, a computational primitive for real-time quanta perce

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