Synergistic Event-SVE Imaging for Quantitative Propellant Combustion Diagnostics

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Hauptverfasser: Tao, Jing, Lei, Taihang, Guan, Banglei, Qu, Ying, Na, Xudong, Ma, Likun, Shang, Yang, Yu, Qifeng
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author Tao, Jing
Lei, Taihang
Guan, Banglei
Qu, Ying
Na, Xudong
Ma, Likun
Shang, Yang
Yu, Qifeng
author_facet Tao, Jing
Lei, Taihang
Guan, Banglei
Qu, Ying
Na, Xudong
Ma, Likun
Shang, Yang
Yu, Qifeng
contents Real-time monitoring of high-energy propellant combustion is difficult. Extreme high dynamic range (HDR), microsecond-scale particle motion, and heavy smoke often occur together. These conditions drive saturation, motion blur, and unstable particle extraction in conventional imaging. We present a closed-loop Event--SVE measurement system that couples a spatially variant exposure (SVE) camera with a stereo pair of neuromorphic event cameras. The SVE branch produces HDR maps with an explicit smoke-aware fusion strategy. A multi-cue smoke-likelihood map is used to separate particle emission from smoke scattering, yielding calibrated intensity maps for downstream analysis. The resulting HDR maps also provide the absolute-intensity reference missing in event cameras. This reference is used to suppress smoke-driven event artifacts and to improve particle-state discrimination. Based on the cleaned event observations, a stereo event-based 3D pipeline estimates separation height and equivalent particle size through feature extraction and triangulation (maximum calibration error 0.56%). Experiments on boron-based propellants show multimodal equivalent-radius statistics. The system also captures fast separation transients that are difficult to observe with conventional sensors. Overall, the proposed framework provides a practical, calibration-consistent route to microsecond-resolved 3D combustion measurement under smoke-obscured HDR conditions.
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spellingShingle Synergistic Event-SVE Imaging for Quantitative Propellant Combustion Diagnostics
Tao, Jing
Lei, Taihang
Guan, Banglei
Qu, Ying
Na, Xudong
Ma, Likun
Shang, Yang
Yu, Qifeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Real-time monitoring of high-energy propellant combustion is difficult. Extreme high dynamic range (HDR), microsecond-scale particle motion, and heavy smoke often occur together. These conditions drive saturation, motion blur, and unstable particle extraction in conventional imaging. We present a closed-loop Event--SVE measurement system that couples a spatially variant exposure (SVE) camera with a stereo pair of neuromorphic event cameras. The SVE branch produces HDR maps with an explicit smoke-aware fusion strategy. A multi-cue smoke-likelihood map is used to separate particle emission from smoke scattering, yielding calibrated intensity maps for downstream analysis. The resulting HDR maps also provide the absolute-intensity reference missing in event cameras. This reference is used to suppress smoke-driven event artifacts and to improve particle-state discrimination. Based on the cleaned event observations, a stereo event-based 3D pipeline estimates separation height and equivalent particle size through feature extraction and triangulation (maximum calibration error 0.56%). Experiments on boron-based propellants show multimodal equivalent-radius statistics. The system also captures fast separation transients that are difficult to observe with conventional sensors. Overall, the proposed framework provides a practical, calibration-consistent route to microsecond-resolved 3D combustion measurement under smoke-obscured HDR conditions.
title Synergistic Event-SVE Imaging for Quantitative Propellant Combustion Diagnostics
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25054