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Event Cameras Meet SPADs for High-Speed, Low-Bandwidth Imaging

Muglikar, Manasi
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Somasundaram, Siddharth
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Dave, Akshat
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2025
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Traditional cameras face a trade-off between low-light performance and high-speed imaging: longer exposure times to capture sufficient light results in motion blur, whereas shorter exposures result in Poisson-corrupted noisy images. While burst photography techniques help mitigate this tradeoff, conventional cameras are fundamentally limited in their sensor noise characteristics. Event cameras and single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors have emerged as promising alternatives to conventional cameras due to their desirable properties. SPADs are capable of single-photon sensitivity with microsecond temporal resolution, and event cameras can measure brightness changes up to 1 MHz with low bandwidth requirements. We show that these properties are complementary, and can help achieve low-light, high-speed image reconstruction with low bandwidth requirements. We introduce a sensor fusion framework to combine SPADs with event cameras to improves the reconstruction of high-speed, low-light scenes while reducing the high bandwidth cost associated with using every SPAD frame. Our evaluation, on both synthetic and real sensor data, demonstrates significant enhancements ($\gt 5$ dB PSNR) in reconstructing low-light scenes at high temporal resolution (100 kHz) compared to conventional cameras. Event-SPAD fusion shows great promise for real-world applications, such as robotics or medical imaging.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/tpami.2025.3576698
Author(s)
Muglikar, Manasi
Somasundaram, Siddharth
Dave, Akshat
Charbon, Edoardo  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Raskar, Ramesh
Scaramuzza, Davide
Date Issued

2025

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
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1

End page

12

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June 25, 2025
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