arXiv:2505.03116cs.CV2025-05CVPR被引 10

用事件相机追踪连续运动轨迹,提升复杂运动下视频插帧质量。

TimeTracker: Event-based Continuous Point Tracking for Video Frame Interpolation with Non-linear Motion

  • 通过连续点追踪捕捉非线性运动轨迹,更精准建模时空关联。
  • 在真实世界快速非线性运动数据集上,插帧误差降低18.3%,性能领先。
  • 适合需要高动态场景处理的视频增强、自动驾驶等领域应用。

基于事件相机的视频插帧(VFI)因具备高时间分辨率而表现优于传统帧基方法。然而,场景中动态变化的运动方向与速度导致的非线性运动仍是挑战。现有方法或仅用事件估计稀疏光流,或融合事件与图像特征估计稠密光流,但事件的连续运动线索与图像的密集空间信息在时间维度上难以对齐,常引入运动误差。本文发现物体运动在空间上具有连续性,持续追踪局部区域可更准确识别时空特征相关性。为此,提出名为TimeTracker的新型连续点追踪框架:首先设计场景感知区域分割(SARS)模块,将场景划分为相似块;随后提出连续轨迹引导运动估计(CTME)模块,利用事件追踪每个块的连续运动轨迹;最后通过全局运动优化与帧精修生成任意时刻的中间帧。此外,构建了一个包含快速非线性运动的真实世界数据集。大量实验表明,该方法在运动估计与插帧质量上均优于现有方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Video frame interpolation (VFI) that leverages the bio-inspired event cameras as guidance has recently shown better performance and memory efficiency than the frame-based methods, thanks to the event cameras' advantages, such as high temporal resolution. A hurdle for event-based VFI is how to effectively deal with non-linear motion, caused by the dynamic changes in motion direction and speed within the scene. Existing methods either use events to estimate sparse optical flow or fuse events with image features to estimate dense optical flow. Unfortunately, motion errors often degrade the VFI quality as the continuous motion cues from events do not align with the dense spatial information of images in the temporal dimension. In this paper, we find that object motion is continuous in space, tracking local regions over continuous time enables more accurate identification of spatiotemporal feature correlations. In light of this, we propose a novel continuous point tracking-based VFI framework, named TimeTracker. Specifically, we first design a Scene-Aware Region Segmentation (SARS) module to divide the scene into similar patches. Then, a Continuous Trajectory guided Motion Estimation (CTME) module is proposed to track the continuous motion trajectory of each patch through events. Finally, intermediate frames at any given time are generated through global motion optimization and frame refinement. Moreover, we collect a real-world dataset that features fast non-linear motion. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms prior arts in both motion estimation and frame interpolation quality.

视频插帧事件相机运动估计连续追踪

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