Event-based Video Frame Interpolation with Edge Guided Motion Refinement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18156v1
• Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:13:34 GMT
• Title: Event-based Video Frame Interpolation with Edge Guided Motion Refinement
• Authors: Yuhan Liu, Yongjian Deng, Hao Chen, Bochen Xie, Youfu Li, Zhen Yang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce an end-to-end E-VFI learning method to efficiently utilize edge features from event signals for motion flow and warping enhancement. Our method incorporates an Edge Guided Attentive (EGA) module, which rectifies estimated video motion through attentive aggregation. Experiments on both synthetic and real datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
• Score: 28.331148083668857
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video frame interpolation, the process of synthesizing intermediate frames between sequential video frames, has made remarkable progress with the use of event cameras. These sensors, with microsecond-level temporal resolution, fill information gaps between frames by providing precise motion cues. However, contemporary Event-Based Video Frame Interpolation (E-VFI) techniques often neglect the fact that event data primarily supply high-confidence features at scene edges during multi-modal feature fusion, thereby diminishing the role of event signals in optical flow (OF) estimation and warping refinement. To address this overlooked aspect, we introduce an end-to-end E-VFI learning method (referred to as EGMR) to efficiently utilize edge features from event signals for motion flow and warping enhancement. Our method incorporates an Edge Guided Attentive (EGA) module, which rectifies estimated video motion through attentive aggregation based on the local correlation of multi-modal features in a coarse-to-fine strategy. Moreover, given that event data can provide accurate visual references at scene edges between consecutive frames, we introduce a learned visibility map derived from event data to adaptively mitigate the occlusion problem in the warping refinement process. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed approach, demonstrating its potential for higher quality video frame interpolation.

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