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arxiv: 2604.22183 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-24 · 💻 cs.CV

EvFlow-GS: Event Enhanced Motion Deblurring with Optical Flow for 3D Gaussian Splatting

Feiyu An , Yufei Deng , Zihui Zhang , Rong Xiao This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords event cameramotion deblurring3D Gaussian Splattingoptical flowlearnable double integral3D reconstructioncomputer vision
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EvFlow-GS jointly optimizes a learnable event double integral, camera poses, and 3D Gaussian Splatting to produce sharper 3D reconstructions from motion-blurred images.

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The paper sets out to improve 3D scene reconstruction when input photographs suffer from motion blur. It incorporates microsecond-resolution event camera streams together with optical flow to supply additional supervision signals. The approach builds a single optimization loop that simultaneously refines the 3D Gaussian representation, the camera trajectory, and an explicit mapping from events to intensity changes. A sympathetic reader would care because current event-assisted methods still leave residual blur and texture loss; a working joint scheme would extend usable 3D modeling to fast-motion capture settings. The authors demonstrate this through experiments that report leading quantitative and visual results.

Core claim

The central claim is that a novel event-based loss derived from optical-flow edge information, combined with an event-residual prior that supervises intensity differences between successive 3DGS renderings, allows the learnable double integral, the poses, and the 3D Gaussian Splatting parameters to be optimized together on the fly, so that each component corrects the shortcomings of the others and yields reconstructions with fewer artifacts and richer texture detail.

What carries the argument

The end-to-end learnable double integral (LDI) that converts event streams into intensity-change supervision and is jointly optimized with 3D Gaussian Splatting via separate event-based losses and a joint rendering loss.

If this is right

  • Rendered images from the optimized 3DGS exhibit reduced residual blur and sharper texture details.
  • Camera poses estimated during the joint process become more accurate because event residuals provide additional constraints.
  • The learnable double integral adapts on the fly to the specific blur and event characteristics of each sequence.
  • 3DGS and LDI outputs mutually reinforce each other through the combined loss, improving overall scene fidelity.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same joint-optimization pattern could be applied to dynamic scene reconstruction where both camera and objects move.
  • Real-time robotics pipelines might adopt the approach to maintain sharp 3D maps during rapid platform motion.
  • The method could reduce reliance on perfectly static capture rigs when building large-scale 3D models from handheld video.

Load-bearing premise

The novel event-based loss and event-residual prior supply accurate supervision without introducing new misleading signals or artifacts.

What would settle it

Run the method on a synthetic dataset containing known sharp ground-truth images, exact event streams, and precise camera poses, then measure whether the joint optimization reduces final reconstruction error below that of the same pipeline with fixed rather than learnable double-integral weights.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.22183 by Feiyu An, Rong Xiao, Yufei Deng, Zihui Zhang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison between our method and the previous methods. Our view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overall framework of our EvFlow-GS. We propose three novel strategies to effectively leverage event stream for optimizing deblurring 3DGS. Bezier curve. The continuous camera pose ´ P(t) at any time t is expressed as: P(tk) = Y 8 j=0 exp 8 j  (1 − τ ) 8−j τ j · log(Tj )  (3) where τ = t/T ∈ [0, 1]. During training, the camera poses are jointly optimized with the following supervisions. 3D Gaussians are… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative comparison on datasets. The first and second rows show scenes from the synthetic dataset, while the third and fourth rows display results view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Visual ablation experiment and 3DGS. We train the network for 40,000 iterations. We choose N = 3 for all datasets, enabling each viewpoint to reconstruct a temporally uniform sequence of 7 frames. The loss weights are set to λ = 0.1 and λSSIM = 0.2. Dataset. We evaluate our EvFlow-GS on the datasets pro￾posed by EBAD-NeRF [9] and on an additional real-world dataset from E3NeRF [13]. EBAD-NeRF Dataset [9] i… view at source ↗
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Achieving sharp 3D reconstruction from motion-blurred images alone becomes challenging, motivating recent methods to incorporate event cameras, benefiting from microsecond temporal resolution. However, they suffer from residual artifacts and blurry texture details due to misleading supervision from inaccurate event double integral priors and noisy, blurry events. In this study, we propose EvFlow-GS, a unified framework that leverages event streams and optical flow to optimize an end-to-end learnable double integral (LDI), camera poses, and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) jointly on-the-fly. Specifically, we first extract edge information from the events using optical flow and then formulate a novel event-based loss applied separately to different modules. Additionally, we exploit a novel event-residual prior to strengthen the supervision of intensity changes between images rendered from 3DGS. Finally, we integrate the outputs of both 3DGS and LDI into a joint loss, enabling their optimization to mutually facilitate each other. Experiments demonstrate the leading performance of our EvFlow-GS.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes EvFlow-GS, a unified framework that jointly optimizes a learnable double integral (LDI) for event integration, camera poses, and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) using event streams and optical flow. It extracts edges from events via optical flow to apply a novel event-based loss, introduces an event-residual prior to strengthen intensity-change supervision from 3DGS renders, and combines outputs in a joint loss so that LDI and 3DGS mutually facilitate each other. The authors claim this resolves residual artifacts and blurry details that plague prior event double-integral methods, yielding leading performance.

Significance. If the novel loss and prior indeed supply accurate supervision without propagating the same error modes the abstract attributes to earlier work, the mutual-facilitation mechanism could meaningfully improve event-based motion deblurring and 3D reconstruction quality. The approach of tying optical-flow edge extraction directly to per-module losses and a residual prior is a plausible way to leverage microsecond event timing, but its practical impact cannot yet be gauged without quantitative evidence.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that the new event-based loss and event-residual prior avoid the 'misleading supervision' and 'artifacts' explicitly diagnosed for prior double-integral methods is load-bearing, yet the abstract supplies neither the loss equations nor the prior formulation, nor any ablation isolating their contribution.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: joint optimization of LDI, poses, and 3DGS via shared losses risks circular dependence if the event-residual prior is itself computed from the same 3DGS-rendered outputs; without an explicit independence argument or ablation showing that the prior does not simply reinforce blur, the 'mutual facilitation' guarantee is unsubstantiated.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: no datasets, baselines, or quantitative metrics (PSNR, LPIPS, etc.) are mentioned to support the 'leading performance' statement.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'on-the-fly' is used without clarifying whether optimization occurs during capture or only at reconstruction time.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and detailed comments. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that the new event-based loss and event-residual prior avoid the 'misleading supervision' and 'artifacts' explicitly diagnosed for prior double-integral methods is load-bearing, yet the abstract supplies neither the loss equations nor the prior formulation, nor any ablation isolating their contribution.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, constrained by length, omits the explicit equations and ablation results. The full manuscript details the event-based loss (Section 3.2, using optical-flow-extracted edges) and event-residual prior (Section 3.3) with ablations in Section 4.2 that isolate their contributions by comparing performance with and without each component. We will revise the abstract to concisely reference these formulations and their role in mitigating misleading supervision, thereby better supporting the central claim while respecting length limits. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: joint optimization of LDI, poses, and 3DGS via shared losses risks circular dependence if the event-residual prior is itself computed from the same 3DGS-rendered outputs; without an explicit independence argument or ablation showing that the prior does not simply reinforce blur, the 'mutual facilitation' guarantee is unsubstantiated.

    Authors: We appreciate this concern regarding potential circularity. The event-residual prior is computed from the difference between LDI-integrated events and 3DGS renders, but LDI is first optimized independently using event data and optical flow; the joint loss then enables refinement with separate weighting and edge supervision derived from events. Ablations in Section 4 demonstrate that including the prior improves sharpness metrics without increasing blur. We will add an explicit independence argument and information-flow description in Section 3.4 of the revised manuscript to substantiate the mutual-facilitation mechanism. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: novel losses and joint optimization remain independent of fitted inputs

full rationale

The paper's derivation introduces a learnable double integral (LDI), optical-flow edge extraction for a novel event-based loss, and a separate novel event-residual prior to supervise intensity changes between 3DGS renders, then combines them in a joint loss for mutual facilitation. No equations or self-citations reduce any central claim to a definitional equivalence with its own inputs; the event streams, optical flow, and rendered images function as external data sources rather than self-derived quantities. The framework is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks such as real event data and image renders.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 1 invented entities

Abstract-only review yields no explicit equations or parameter lists; LDI is presented as learnable but no count or values are given.

invented entities (1)
  • Learnable Double Integral (LDI) no independent evidence
    purpose: End-to-end learnable replacement for fixed event double integral priors
    Introduced in abstract as core novel component to avoid misleading supervision

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