Rethinking RGB-Event Semantic Segmentation with a Novel Bidirectional Motion-enhanced Event Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01548v1
• Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 19:19:58 GMT
• Title: Rethinking RGB-Event Semantic Segmentation with a Novel Bidirectional Motion-enhanced Event Representation
• Authors: Zhen Yao, Xiaowen Ying, Mooi Choo Chuah,
• Abstract summary: Event cameras capture motion dynamics, offering a unique modality with great potential in various computer vision tasks.<n> RGB-Event fusion faces three misalignments: (i) temporal, (ii) temporal, and (iii) modal misalignment.<n>We propose Motion-enhanced Event (MET), which transforms sparse event voxels into a dense and temporally coherent form.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Event cameras capture motion dynamics, offering a unique modality with great potential in various computer vision tasks. However, RGB-Event fusion faces three intrinsic misalignments: (i) temporal, (ii) spatial, and (iii) modal misalignment. Existing voxel grid representations neglect temporal correlations between consecutive event windows, and their formulation with simple accumulation of asynchronous and sparse events is incompatible with the synchronous and dense nature of RGB modality. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel event representation, Motion-enhanced Event Tensor (MET), which transforms sparse event voxels into a dense and temporally coherent form by leveraging dense optical flows and event temporal features. In addition, we introduce a Frequency-aware Bidirectional Flow Aggregation Module (BFAM) and a Temporal Fusion Module (TFM). BFAM leverages the frequency domain and MET to mitigate modal misalignment, while bidirectional flow aggregation and temporal fusion mechanisms resolve spatiotemporal misalignment. Experimental results on two large-scale datasets demonstrate that our framework significantly outperforms state-of-the-art RGB-Event semantic segmentation approaches. Our code is available at: https://github.com/zyaocoder/BRENet.

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