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Event-Based Fusion for Motion Deblurring with Cross-modal Attention

30 Nov 2021arXiv:2112.00167archive 2025-07-28

Lei Sun, Christos Sakaridis, Jingyun Liang, Qi Jiang, Kailun Yang, Peng Sun, Yaozu Ye, Kaiwei Wang, Luc van Gool

Traditional frame-based cameras inevitably suffer from motion blur due to long exposure times. As a kind of bio-inspired camera, the event camera records the intensity changes in an asynchronous way with high temporal resolution, providing valid image degradation information within the exposure time. In this paper, we rethink the eventbased image deblurring problem and unfold it into an end-to-end two-stage image restoration network. To effectively fuse event and image features, we design an event-image cross-modal attention module applied at multiple levels of our network, which allows to focus on relevant features from the event branch and filter out noise. We also introduce a novel symmetric cumulative event representation specifically for image deblurring as well as an event mask gated connection between the two stages of our network which helps avoid information loss. At the dataset level, to foster event-based motion deblurring and to facilitate evaluation on challenging real-world images, we introduce the Real Event Blur (REBlur) dataset, captured with an event camera in an illumination controlled optical laboratory. Our Event Fusion Network (EFNet) sets the new state of the art in motion deblurring, surpassing both the prior best-performing image-based method and all event-based methods with public implementations on the GoPro dataset (by up to 2.47dB) and on our REBlur dataset, even in extreme blurry conditions. The code and our REBlur dataset will be made publicly available.

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DeblurringImage DeblurringImage RestorationObject Detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Deblurring GoPro EFNet PSNR 35.46 #4 of 56 Archive leaderboard report
Deblurring GoPro EFNet SSIM 0.972 #4 of 56 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection DSEC EFNet mAP 30.0 #2 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Object Detection PKU-DDD17-Car EFNet mAP50 83.0 #4 of 14 Archive leaderboard report

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