Prophesee Metavision® Technologies - Event-Based Vision Sensor (EVS) and Event Cameras
Built upon neuromorphic engineering principles
inspired by the brain's neural networks and human vision

Prophesee is the inventor of the most advanced Event-Based Vision systems. Their unique patented Metavision® Event-Based Vision Sensor (EVS) design and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms draw inspiration from the way the human eye and brain function. Metavision® sensors mimic the behavior of the human retina, where individual photoreceptors respond to changes in light intensity. Instead of capturing frames, an "event" is triggered when a significant change in the light level is detected.


Prophesee Metavision® Evaluation Kits

Are you considering neuromorphic engineering for an event-based vision system, but not sure if it's right for your application? Prophesee's Evaluation Kits offer an excellent starting point for exploring Event-Based Vision and this innovative field. They provide a range of evaluation kits, including the EVK4 HD USB Event Camera with a Sony IMX636 Event-Based Sensor (EVS), the EVK3 Board Level Event Camera, the AMD Kria KV260 Starter Kit – an HD embedded event-based vision system built on AMD Kria™ KV260, the STM32F7 Starter Kit – an embedded event- based vision development kit for STM32 devices, and the GenX320 Starter Kit for Rasberry Pi 5.

How do Event cameras differ from traditional machine vision cameras?

Traditional machine vision cameras capture images in frames per second, and lack the information of an element's movement. Redundant background objects are repeatedly recorded in each image, generating excess, unnecessary data. Event-Based Vision (EBV) cameras are built with a neuromorphic vision sensor that captures changes in brightness rather than capturing a complete image at fixed intervals like traditional frame-based cameras. Similar to your eyes and brain, the sensors capture an image when they detect a change - an "event".


Contact our Sales Engineers to learn more about the options and benefits of Event-Based Vision Sensors (EVS) and Event Cameras.

Metavision® Event-Based Vision (EBV) Evaluation Kits


Metavision® USB Event Camera Evaluation Kits


Prophesee Metavision® EVK4 – HD USB Event Cameras
Metavision® EVK4 HD USB Event Cameras
  • Sony IMX636 1/2.5” Event-Based Vision Sensor
  • Event camera evaluation kit with C/CS mount optics
  • Event Signal Processing embedded
  • Resolution (px) 1280 x 720
  • Bus-powered USB 3 compliant
Prophesee Metavision EVK3 board level Event Camera Evaluation kit
Metavision® EVK3 Board Level Event Camera
  • Integrated Prophesee GenX320 1/5" format 320x320 event-based vision sensor
  • Choice of Compact Optical Module or Chip on Board
  • 320x320 array of 6.3μm contrast detection pixels
  • USB3.0 Bus powered with Micro-B connector stamping


Event-Based Metavision® Evaluation Kits for Embedded Vision Systems


Prophesee AMD Kria KV260 Metavision Starter Kit
Metavision® AMD Kria KV260 Starter Kit
  • AMD Kria K260 System-on-Module (SOM)*
  • Multi-camera support - up to 8 interfaces
  • Flexible connectivity - 1Gb Ethernet, USB3, USB2
  • Plug-n-Play for event-based vision application development
Prophesee STM32F7 Metavision Starter Kit
Metavision® STM32F7 Starter Kit
  • Prophesee GenX320 CM2 development kit for STM32 devices**
  • Choice of Compact Optical Module or Chip on Board
  • Plug-n-Play for use with STM32-F7 platform
  • Prophesee GenX320 1/5" format 320x320 event-based vision sensor
  • 320x320 array of 6.3μm contrast detection pixels
Prophesee GenX320 Raspberry Pi 5  Starter Kit
GenX320 Starter Kit for Rasberry Pi 5
  • Prophesee GenX320 development kit module for Raspberry Pi 5 board
  • Available with Compact Optical Module or Chip on Board variants
  • Sensor module connects to the Raspberry Pi 5 with the camera connector MIPI CSI-2 (D-PHY) interface
  • Prophesee GenX320 1/5" event-based vision sensor
  • OpenEB support with Python and C++ APIs


*Non-production version of the AMD Kria K26 SOM
**The STM32F746G discovery kit is not included.



Metavision® Applications

The development of Event-Based Vision (EVS) sensors and neuromorphic engineering technology are conquering the obstacles that were encountered with traditional machine vision technology. Event cameras are enabling a wide realm of new applications in medical, IoT, industrial automation, AR/VR and defense including object tracking, fall detection, eye tracking, gesture recognition, constellation tracking, motion analysis, and vibration tracking.

Object Detection & Tracking

Eye Tracking

High-Speed Counting

Optical Flow


Particle / Object Size Monitoring

Velocity & Fluid Monitoring

Gesture Detection

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What is Event-Based Vision?


Introducing Kria
Xilinx Adaptive System-on-Modules