# Benchmarking Recurrent Event-Based Object Detection for Industrial Multi-Class Recognition on MTevent Source: [Benchmarking Recurrent Event-Based Object Detection for Industrial Multi-Class Recognition on MTevent]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2026-05-20T05:00:13.583Z Authors: Lokeshwaran Manohar, Moritz Roidl Published: 2026-03-23T10:28:54.000Z ## Abstract Event cameras are attractive for industrial robotics because they provide high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and reduced motion blur. However, most event-based object detection studies focus on outdoor driving scenarios or limited class settings. In this work, we benchmark recurrent ReYOLOv8s on MTevent for industrial multi-class recognition and use a non-recurrent YOLOv8s variant as a baseline to analyze the effect of temporal memory. On the MTevent validation split, the best scratch recurrent model (C21) reaches 0.285 mAP50, corresponding to a 9.6\\% relative improvement over the non-recurrent YOLOv8s baseline (0.260). Event-domain pretraining has a stronger effect: GEN1-initialized fine-tuning yields the best overall result of 0.329 mAP50 at clip length 21, and unlike scratch training, GEN1-pretrained models improve consistently with clip length. PEDRo initialization drops to 0.251, indicating that mismatched source-domain pretraining can be less effective than training from scratch. Persistent failure modes are dominated by class imbalance and human-object interaction. Overall, we position this work as a focused benchmarking and analysis study of recurrent event-based detection in industrial environments. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()