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Main Authors: Torbunov, Dmitrii, Okuducu, Onur, Huang, Yi, Dim, Odera, Coles, Rebecca, Cui, Yonggang, Ren, Yihui
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05240
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author Torbunov, Dmitrii
Okuducu, Onur
Huang, Yi
Dim, Odera
Coles, Rebecca
Cui, Yonggang
Ren, Yihui
author_facet Torbunov, Dmitrii
Okuducu, Onur
Huang, Yi
Dim, Odera
Coles, Rebecca
Cui, Yonggang
Ren, Yihui
contents Continuous video monitoring in surveillance, robotics, and wearable systems faces a fundamental power constraint: conventional RGB cameras consume substantial energy through fixed-rate capture. Event cameras offer sparse, motion-driven sensing with low power consumption, but produce asynchronous event streams rather than RGB video. We propose a hybrid capture paradigm that records sparse RGB keyframes alongside continuous event streams, then reconstructs full RGB video offline -- reducing capture power consumption while maintaining standard video output for downstream applications. We introduce the Image and Event to Video (IE2Video) task: reconstructing RGB video sequences from a single initial frame and subsequent event camera data. We investigate two architectural strategies: adapting an autoregressive model (HyperE2VID) for RGB generation, and injecting event representations into a pretrained text-to-video diffusion model (LTX) via learned encoders and low-rank adaptation. Our experiments demonstrate that the diffusion-based approach achieves 33\% better perceptual quality than the autoregressive baseline (0.283 vs 0.422 LPIPS). We validate our approach across three event camera datasets (BS-ERGB, HS-ERGB far/close) at varying sequence lengths (32-128 frames), demonstrating robust cross-dataset generalization with strong performance on unseen capture configurations.
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spellingShingle IE2Video: Adapting Pretrained Diffusion Models for Event-Based Video Reconstruction
Torbunov, Dmitrii
Okuducu, Onur
Huang, Yi
Dim, Odera
Coles, Rebecca
Cui, Yonggang
Ren, Yihui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Continuous video monitoring in surveillance, robotics, and wearable systems faces a fundamental power constraint: conventional RGB cameras consume substantial energy through fixed-rate capture. Event cameras offer sparse, motion-driven sensing with low power consumption, but produce asynchronous event streams rather than RGB video. We propose a hybrid capture paradigm that records sparse RGB keyframes alongside continuous event streams, then reconstructs full RGB video offline -- reducing capture power consumption while maintaining standard video output for downstream applications. We introduce the Image and Event to Video (IE2Video) task: reconstructing RGB video sequences from a single initial frame and subsequent event camera data. We investigate two architectural strategies: adapting an autoregressive model (HyperE2VID) for RGB generation, and injecting event representations into a pretrained text-to-video diffusion model (LTX) via learned encoders and low-rank adaptation. Our experiments demonstrate that the diffusion-based approach achieves 33\% better perceptual quality than the autoregressive baseline (0.283 vs 0.422 LPIPS). We validate our approach across three event camera datasets (BS-ERGB, HS-ERGB far/close) at varying sequence lengths (32-128 frames), demonstrating robust cross-dataset generalization with strong performance on unseen capture configurations.
title IE2Video: Adapting Pretrained Diffusion Models for Event-Based Video Reconstruction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05240