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+# ESIM: an Open Event Camera Simulator
+
+This is the code for the 2018 CoRL paper **ESIM: an Open Event Camera Simulator** by [Henri Rebecq](http://henri.rebecq.fr), Daniel Gehrig and [Davide Scaramuzza](http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/people_scaramuzza.html):
+```bibtex
+@Article{Rebecq18corl,
+  author        = {Henri Rebecq and Daniel Gehrig and Davide Scaramuzza},
+  title         = {{ESIM}: an Open Event Camera Simulator},
+  journal       = {Conf. on Robotics Learning (CoRL)},
+  year          = 2018,
+  month         = oct
+}
+```
+You can find a pdf of the paper [here](http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/CORL18_Rebecq.pdf). If you use any of this code, please cite this publication.
+
 ## Features
 
 - Accurate event simulation, guaranteed by the tight integration between the rendering engine and the event simulator
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 ## Run
 
 Specific instructions to run the simulator depending on the chosen rendering engine can be found in [our wiki](https://github.com/uzh-rpg/rpg_event_camera_simulator/wiki).
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+We thank Raffael Theiler and Dario Brescianini for their contributions to ESIM.
+This research was supported by by Swiss National Center of Competence Research Robotics (NCCR), Qualcomm (through the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Award 2018), the SNSF-ERC Starting Grant and DARPA FLA.