CodedEvents: Optimal Point-Spread-Function Engineering for 3D-Tracking with Event Cameras

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Autori principali: Shah, Sachin, Chan, Matthew Albert, Cai, Haoming, Chen, Jingxi, Kulshrestha, Sakshum, Singh, Chahat Deep, Aloimonos, Yiannis, Metzler, Christopher
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author Shah, Sachin
Chan, Matthew Albert
Cai, Haoming
Chen, Jingxi
Kulshrestha, Sakshum
Singh, Chahat Deep
Aloimonos, Yiannis
Metzler, Christopher
author_facet Shah, Sachin
Chan, Matthew Albert
Cai, Haoming
Chen, Jingxi
Kulshrestha, Sakshum
Singh, Chahat Deep
Aloimonos, Yiannis
Metzler, Christopher
contents Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a well-established computational imaging technique that uses phase masks and other optical elements to embed extra information (e.g., depth) into the images captured by conventional CMOS image sensors. To date, however, PSF-engineering has not been applied to neuromorphic event cameras; a powerful new image sensing technology that responds to changes in the log-intensity of light. This paper establishes theoretical limits (Cramér Rao bounds) on 3D point localization and tracking with PSF-engineered event cameras. Using these bounds, we first demonstrate that existing Fisher phase masks are already near-optimal for localizing static flashing point sources (e.g., blinking fluorescent molecules). We then demonstrate that existing designs are sub-optimal for tracking moving point sources and proceed to use our theory to design optimal phase masks and binary amplitude masks for this task. To overcome the non-convexity of the design problem, we leverage novel implicit neural representation based parameterizations of the phase and amplitude masks. We demonstrate the efficacy of our designs through extensive simulations. We also validate our method with a simple prototype.
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spellingShingle CodedEvents: Optimal Point-Spread-Function Engineering for 3D-Tracking with Event Cameras
Shah, Sachin
Chan, Matthew Albert
Cai, Haoming
Chen, Jingxi
Kulshrestha, Sakshum
Singh, Chahat Deep
Aloimonos, Yiannis
Metzler, Christopher
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a well-established computational imaging technique that uses phase masks and other optical elements to embed extra information (e.g., depth) into the images captured by conventional CMOS image sensors. To date, however, PSF-engineering has not been applied to neuromorphic event cameras; a powerful new image sensing technology that responds to changes in the log-intensity of light. This paper establishes theoretical limits (Cramér Rao bounds) on 3D point localization and tracking with PSF-engineered event cameras. Using these bounds, we first demonstrate that existing Fisher phase masks are already near-optimal for localizing static flashing point sources (e.g., blinking fluorescent molecules). We then demonstrate that existing designs are sub-optimal for tracking moving point sources and proceed to use our theory to design optimal phase masks and binary amplitude masks for this task. To overcome the non-convexity of the design problem, we leverage novel implicit neural representation based parameterizations of the phase and amplitude masks. We demonstrate the efficacy of our designs through extensive simulations. We also validate our method with a simple prototype.
title CodedEvents: Optimal Point-Spread-Function Engineering for 3D-Tracking with Event Cameras
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09409