Event2Audio: Event-Based Optical Vibration Sensing

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Main Authors: Cai, Mingxuan, Galor, Dekel, Kohli, Amit Pal Singh, Yates, Jacob L., Waller, Laura
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Published: 2025
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author Cai, Mingxuan
Galor, Dekel
Kohli, Amit Pal Singh
Yates, Jacob L.
Waller, Laura
author_facet Cai, Mingxuan
Galor, Dekel
Kohli, Amit Pal Singh
Yates, Jacob L.
Waller, Laura
contents Small vibrations observed in video can unveil information beyond what is visual, such as sound and material properties. It is possible to passively record these vibrations when they are visually perceptible, or actively amplify their visual contribution with a laser beam when they are not perceptible. In this paper, we improve upon the active sensing approach by leveraging event-based cameras, which are designed to efficiently capture fast motion. We demonstrate our method experimentally by recovering audio from vibrations, even for multiple simultaneous sources, and in the presence of environmental distortions. Our approach matches the state-of-the-art reconstruction quality at much faster speeds, approaching real-time processing.
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spellingShingle Event2Audio: Event-Based Optical Vibration Sensing
Cai, Mingxuan
Galor, Dekel
Kohli, Amit Pal Singh
Yates, Jacob L.
Waller, Laura
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Audio and Speech Processing
Small vibrations observed in video can unveil information beyond what is visual, such as sound and material properties. It is possible to passively record these vibrations when they are visually perceptible, or actively amplify their visual contribution with a laser beam when they are not perceptible. In this paper, we improve upon the active sensing approach by leveraging event-based cameras, which are designed to efficiently capture fast motion. We demonstrate our method experimentally by recovering audio from vibrations, even for multiple simultaneous sources, and in the presence of environmental distortions. Our approach matches the state-of-the-art reconstruction quality at much faster speeds, approaching real-time processing.
title Event2Audio: Event-Based Optical Vibration Sensing
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03273