Event-Guided Image Reconstruction for Nighttime Dynamic Scenes
TL;DR
An event-guided image reconstruction method for nighttime dynamic visual perception that constructs a multi-channel event voxel representation by jointly encoding event count, event intensity, timestamp distribution, and blurred-frame intensity priors is proposed.
Abstract
Image reconstruction in nighttime dynamic scenes is challenged by low illumination, long exposure, rapid camera or object motion, and sensor noise. Conventional RGB cameras, therefore, struggle to recover both sufficient brightness and clear structural details in nighttime dynamic scenes. To address this problem, we propose an event-guided image reconstruction method for nighttime dynamic visual perception. The method constructs a multi-channel event voxel representation by jointly encoding event count, event intensity, timestamp distribution, and blurred-frame intensity priors. A parameter-efficient local–global reconstruction network is then designed to restore fine-grained textures and model holistic structures. In addition, edge-alignment and blur-alignment constraints are introduced to improve geometric consistency and imaging plausibility. Experiments on the HQF and REDS datasets show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods in the MSE, PSNR, and SSIM. Compared with DeblurSR, it reduces the MSE by 14.81% on HQF and 10.00% on REDS, while improving the PSNR by 1.603 dB and 1.053 dB, respectively. Qualitative results further show sharper edges, lower structural errors, and better edge consistency. Low illumination, dynamic blur, rapid brightness variation, and event noise are also common degradation factors in nighttime UAV imaging, making the investigated problem technically relevant to that setting. However, because neither REDS nor HQF was acquired during an actual UAV flight, the reported results establish benchmark-level reconstruction performance rather than UAV-specific operational effectiveness.