High Dynamic Range Imaging Based on an Asymmetric Event-SVE Camera System

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00467v1
• Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:02:41 GMT
• Title: High Dynamic Range Imaging Based on an Asymmetric Event-SVE Camera System
• Abstract summary: Event cameras provide microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range, while spatially varying exposure (SVE) sensors offer single-shot radiometric diversity.<n>We present a hardware--algorithm co-designed HDR imaging system that tightly integrates an SVE micro-attenuation camera with an event sensor in an asymmetric dual-modality configuration.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: High dynamic range (HDR) imaging under extreme illumination remains challenging for conventional cameras due to overexposure. Event cameras provide microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range, while spatially varying exposure (SVE) sensors offer single-shot radiometric diversity.We present a hardware--algorithm co-designed HDR imaging system that tightly integrates an SVE micro-attenuation camera with an event sensor in an asymmetric dual-modality configuration. To handle non-coaxial geometry and heterogeneous optics, we develop a two-stage cross-modal alignment framework that combines feature-guided coarse homography estimation with a multi-scale refinement module based on spatial pooling and frequency-domain filtering. On top of aligned representations, we develop a cross-modal HDR reconstruction network with convolutional fusion, mutual-information regularization, and a learnable fusion loss that adaptively balances intensity cues and event-derived structural constraints. Comprehensive experiments on both synthetic benchmarks and real captures demonstrate that the proposed system consistently improves highlight recovery, edge fidelity, and robustness compared with frame-only or event-only HDR pipelines. The results indicate that jointly optimizing optical design, cross-modal alignment, and computational fusion provides an effective foundation for reliable HDR perception in highly dynamic and radiometrically challenging environments.

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