Event-Based De-Snowing for Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20901v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:48:28 GMT
• Title: Event-Based De-Snowing for Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Manasi Muglikar, Nico Messikommer, Marco Cannici, Davide Scaramuzza,
• Abstract summary: Event cameras offer compressed visual information with submillisecond latency.<n>We benchmark our method on DSEC-Snow, a new dataset created using a green-screen technique.<n>Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art de-snowing methods by 3 dB in PSNR for image reconstruction.
• Score: 22.565690325532003
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Adverse weather conditions, particularly heavy snowfall, pose significant challenges to both human drivers and autonomous vehicles. Traditional image-based de-snowing methods often introduce hallucination artifacts as they rely solely on spatial information, while video-based approaches require high frame rates and suffer from alignment artifacts at lower frame rates. Camera parameters, such as exposure time, also influence the appearance of snowflakes, making the problem difficult to solve and heavily dependent on network generalization. In this paper, we propose to address the challenge of desnowing by using event cameras, which offer compressed visual information with submillisecond latency, making them ideal for de-snowing images, even in the presence of ego-motion. Our method leverages the fact that snowflake occlusions appear with a very distinctive streak signature in the spatio-temporal representation of event data. We design an attention-based module that focuses on events along these streaks to determine when a background point was occluded and use this information to recover its original intensity. We benchmark our method on DSEC-Snow, a new dataset created using a green-screen technique that overlays pre-recorded snowfall data onto the existing DSEC driving dataset, resulting in precise ground truth and synchronized image and event streams. Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art de-snowing methods by 3 dB in PSNR for image reconstruction. Moreover, we show that off-the-shelf computer vision algorithms can be applied to our reconstructions for tasks such as depth estimation and optical flow, achieving a $20\%$ performance improvement over other de-snowing methods. Our work represents a crucial step towards enhancing the reliability and safety of vision systems in challenging winter conditions, paving the way for more robust, all-weather-capable applications.

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