DVS-PedX: Synthetic-and-Real Event-Based Pedestrian Dataset

Event cameras like Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) report micro-timed brightness changes instead of full frames, offering low latency, high dynamic range, and motion robustness. DVS-PedX (Dynamic Vision Sensor Pedestrian eXploration) is a neuromorphic dataset designed for pedestrian detection and crossing-intention analysis in normal and adverse weather conditions across two complementary sources: (1) synthetic event streams generated in the CARLA simulator for controlled "approach-cross" scenes under varied weather and lighting, comprising 198 sequences (117 good weather, 81 bad weather) with 178,200 total frames; and (2) real-world JAAD dash-cam videos (346 clips) converted to event streams using the v2e tool, preserving natural behaviors and backgrounds. Each sequence includes paired RGB frames, per-frame DVS "event frames" (33 ms accumulations), and frame-level binary labels (crossing vs. not crossing). We provide raw AEDAT 2.0/AEDAT 4.0 event files, AVI DVS video files, and metadata for flexible re-processing. Baseline experiments using spiking neural networks (SNNs) with SpikingJelly achieve an F1-score of 86.37% on the synthetic validation set, revealing a sim-to-real gap that motivates domain adaptation and multimodal fusion. DVS-PedX aims to accelerate research in event-based pedestrian safety, intention prediction, and neuromorphic perception.