Artificial Microsaccade Compensation: Stable Vision for an Ornithopter

Levi Burner, Guido de Croon, Yiannis Aloimonos
12/3/2025
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Animals with foveated vision, including humans, experience microsaccades, small, rapid eye movements that they are not aware of. Inspired by this phenomenon, we develop a method for "Artificial Microsaccade Compensation". It can stabilize video captured by a tailless ornithopter that has resisted attempts to use camera-based sensing because it shakes at 12-20 Hz. Our approach minimizes changes in image intensity by optimizing over 3D rotation represented in SO(3). This results in a stabilized video, computed in real time, suitable for human viewing, and free from distortion. When adapted to hold a fixed viewing orientation, up to occasional saccades, it can dramatically reduce inter-frame motion while also benefiting from an efficient recursive update. When compared to Adobe Premier Pro's warp stabilizer, which is widely regarded as the best commercial video stabilization software available, our method achieves higher quality results while also running in real time.

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@article{burner2025artificial,
  title  = {Artificial Microsaccade Compensation: Stable Vision for an Ornithopter},
  author = {Levi Burner and Guido de Croon and Yiannis Aloimonos},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2512.03995},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03995v1}
}

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