High Frame Rate Video Reconstruction Based on an Event Camera

Event-based cameras measure intensity changes (called 'events') with microsecond accuracy under high-speed motion and challenging lighting conditions. With the 'active pixel sensor' (APS), the 'Dynamic and Active-pixel Vision Sensor' (DAVIS) allows the simultaneous outp...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 44(2022), 5 vom: 14. Mai, Seite 2519-2533
1. Verfasser: Pan, Liyuan (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hartley, Richard, Scheerlinck, Cedric, Liu, Miaomiao, Yu, Xin, Dai, Yuchao
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Event-based cameras measure intensity changes (called 'events') with microsecond accuracy under high-speed motion and challenging lighting conditions. With the 'active pixel sensor' (APS), the 'Dynamic and Active-pixel Vision Sensor' (DAVIS) allows the simultaneous output of intensity frames and events. However, the output images are captured at a relatively low frame rate and often suffer from motion blur. A blurred image can be regarded as the integral of a sequence of latent images, while events indicate changes between the latent images. Thus, we are able to model the blur-generation process by associating event data to a latent sharp image. Based on the abundant event data alongside a low frame rate, easily blurred images, we propose a simple yet effective approach to reconstruct high-quality and high frame rate sharp videos. Starting with a single blurred frame and its event data from DAVIS, we propose the Event-based Double Integral (EDI) model and solve it by adding regularization terms. Then, we extend it to multiple Event-based Double Integral (mEDI) model to get more smooth results based on multiple images and their events. Furthermore, we provide a new and more efficient solver to minimize the proposed energy model. By optimizing the energy function, we achieve significant improvements in removing blur and the reconstruction of a high temporal resolution video. The video generation is based on solving a simple non-convex optimization problem in a single scalar variable. Experimental results on both synthetic and real datasets demonstrate the superiority of our mEDI model and optimization method compared to the state-of-the-art
Beschreibung:Date Revised 04.04.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1939-3539
DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2020.3036667