Spatio-Temporal Difference Guided Motion Deblurring with the Complementary Vision Sensor
Authors: Yapeng Meng, Lin Yang, Yuguo Chen, Xiangru Chen, Taoyi Wang, Lijian Wang, Zheyu Yang, Yihan Lin, Rong Zhao
Organizations: Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Communication University of China, Beijing, China · Primevision Technology, Shanghai, China · Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Motion blur arises when rapid scene changes occur during the exposure period, collapsing rich intra-exposure motion into a single RGB frame. Without explicit structural or temporal cues, RGB-only deblurring is highly ill-posed and often fails under extreme motion. Inspired by the human visual system, brain-inspired vision sensors introduce temporally dense information to alleviate this problem. However, event cameras still suffer from event rate saturation under rapid motion, while the event modality entangles edge features and motion cues, which limits their effectiveness. As a recent breakthrough, the complementary vision sensor (CVS), Tianmouc, captures synchronized RGB frames together with high-frame-rate, multi-bit spatial difference (SD, encoding structural edges) and temporal difference (TD, encoding motion cues) data within a single RGB exposure, offering a promising solution for RGB deblurring under extreme dynamic scenes. To fully leverage these complementary modalities, we propose Spatio-Temporal Difference Guided Deblur Net (STGDNet), which adopts a recurrent multi-branch architecture that iteratively encodes and fuses SD and TD sequences to restore structure and color details lost in blurry RGB inputs. Our method outperforms current RGB or event-based approaches in both synthetic CVS dataset and real-world evaluations. Moreover, STGDNet exhibits strong generalization capability across over 100 extreme real-world scenarios. Project page: https://tmcDeblur.github.io/
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Figure 2: Architecture of the Spatio-temporal Difference Guided Deblur Net (STGDNet), with including: Temporal Recurrent Refinement Module (TRRM), Supervised Attention Module (SAM), and Cross-modal Complementary Fusion (CCF).
Figure 3: Visualization of different methods on SportsSloMo-CVS dataset. PSNR values for the cropped regions are provided.
Method
5
7
9
11
Params (M) ↓
FLOPs (T) ↓
PSNR ↑
SSIM ↑
PSNR ↑
SSIM ↑
PSNR ↑
SSIM ↑
PSNR ↑
SSIM ↑
Restormer [ 45 ]
34.99
0.9511
34.34
0.9484
32.73
0.9330
31.35
0.9186
26.1
0.4406
Restormer*
39.51
0.9756
39.87
0.9788
39.05
0.9760
38.32
0.9732
26.1
0.4417
Turtle [ 10 ]
35.15
0.9467
35.38
0.9575
33.89
0.9456
32.55
0.9342
59.1
0.5514
Turtle*
39.37
0.9765
39.35
0.9777
38.52
0.9745
37.73
0.9713
59.1
0.5529
STCNet [ 41 ]
40.07
0.9799
39.51
0.9788
38.44
0.9753
37.79
0.9723
16.4
0.5974
Table 1: Comparison across different numbers of averaged blur frames on SportsSloMo-CVS dataset. The asterisk (*) denotes RGB-only methods augmented by concatenating SD and TD to the RGB input.
Figure 4: Results on real-captured data compared with event-based methods and CVS-based method.
Figure 5: Real-world deblurring results of CVS under different RGB exposure times (us).
SD
TD
CCF
TRRM
PSNR ↑
SSIM ↑
×
×
×
×
31.06
0.9429
✓
×
✓
×
37.70
0.9811
×
✓
✓
×
39.01
0.9842
✓
✓
✓
×
39.45
0.9855
✓
✓
×
×
39.01
0.9841
✓
✓
✓
✓
40.12
0.9874
Table 2: Ablation study on different components.
Figure 6: Deblurring results across different rotational speeds and illumination levels in real-captured rotating-disk.
Figure 7: Performance boundary visualization. (a) 1D angular intensity sequence sampled along the disk, together with the corresponding sigmoid fitting results, shown for one example configuration (600 rpm, 900 lux, 6,600 µs exposure). (b) Mean Relative BEW versus rotation speed under different illumination levels.
Augment
5
7
9
11
PSNR
SSIM
PSNR
SSIM
PSNR
SSIM
PSNR
SSIM
×
41.88
0.9912
41.47
0.9905
40.72
0.9887
40.12
0.9874
✓
41.88
0.9913
41.46
0.9905
40.68
0.9887
40.05
0.9873
Table 3: Effect of TD-sequence augmentation on deblurring performance.
As video capture moves to handheld and edge devices, motion blur from camera shake has become a pervasive degradation that lowers perceptual quality and harms downstream vision tasks. The strongest deblurring networks recover impressive detail, yet they remain computationally heavy and overwhelmingly complex, so their quality comes at a cost that consumer hardware cannot pay in real time. This gap between restoration quality and on-device speed is exactly what makes real-time deblurring difficult. We developed and implemented TSRN-RTVD, an efficient video deblurring system that explicitly reconstructs the underlying camera trajectory during exposure and uses the recovered motion to guide restoration. This approach turns the physical cause of blur into a signal that drives sharpening. Our system runs on a single consumer GPU and restores the video at 30 FPS while reaching 30.08 dB PSNR on the GoPro dataset. We demonstrate TSRN-RTVD on consumer devices with interactive side-by-side visualization of the blurry input and the deblurred output, live throughput, and an on-screen view of the recovered camera trajectory. Demo video is available at https://youtu.be/3alMwVrVALU.
Nikita Alutis, Danila Evsyukov, Egor Chistov +3
Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow, Russian Federation · MSU Institute for Artificial Intelligence Moscow, Russian Federation
Motion degradation, manifested as blur in global shutter (GS) images or rolling shutter (RS) distortion in RS counterparts, remains a fundamental challenge in computational imaging, especially under fast motion or low-light conditions. While prior works have treated blur decomposition and RS temporal super-resolution as separate tasks, this separation fails to exploit their intrinsic complementarity. In this paper, we propose a unified framework to invert motion degradation and reenact imaging moment by jointly leveraging the complementary characteristics of GS blur and RS distortion. To this end, we introduce a novel dual-shutter setup that captures synchronized blur-RS image pairs and demonstrate that this combination effectively resolves temporal and spatial ambiguities inherent in both modalities. For allowing flexible performance-cost trade-offs, we further extend this dual-shutter setup to a stereo Blur-RS configuration with a narrow baseline. In addition, we construct a triaxial imaging system to collect a real-world dataset with aligned GS-RS pairs and ground-truth high-speed frames, enabling robust training and evaluation beyond synthetic data. Our proposed network explicitly disentangles motion into context-aware and temporally-sensitive representations via a dual-stream motion interpretation module, followed by a self-prompted frame reconstruction stage. Extensive experiments validate the superiority and generalizability of our approach, establishing a new paradigm for realistic high-speed video reconstruction under complex motion degradations. Codes and more resources are available at https://jixiang2016.github.io/dualBR_site/.
Xiang Ji, Guixu Lin, Zhengwei Yin +2
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Joint video super-resolution and deblurring (VSRDB) requires both efficient long-range temporal modeling and robustness to frame-wise exposure-duration variation, which changes the extent of motion blur across video frames. We propose FMA-Net++, a non-recurrent, sequence-level framework built from Hierarchical Refinement with Bidirectional Aggregation (HRBA) blocks. By stacking HRBA blocks, FMA-Net++ processes video frames in parallel while hierarchically expanding the temporal receptive field, avoiding the limited temporal receptive field of sliding-window designs and the sequential bottleneck of recurrent ones. To handle exposure-duration-dependent blur, we introduce an Exposure Time-aware Modulation (ETM) layer that conditions HRBA features on exposure embeddings from an Exposure Time-aware Feature Extractor (ETE). The conditioned features guide an exposure-aware flow-guided dynamic filtering module to predict motion- and exposure-aware degradation kernels. FMA-Net++ decouples degradation learning from restoration: the former predicts degradation priors and the latter exploits them for efficient high-resolution restoration. To evaluate VSRDB under controlled exposure-duration variation, we introduce the REDS-ME (multi-exposure) and REDS-RE (random-exposure) benchmarks. Trained solely on synthetic data, FMA-Net++ achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and temporal consistency on these benchmarks. It further shows strong out-of-distribution performance on GoPro and challenging real-world videos, while outperforming recent methods in both restoration quality and inference speed.
Geunhyuk Youk, Jihyong Oh, Munchurl Kim
KAIST, Republic of Korea · CMLab, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea