arxiv: 2602.04583 · v2 · submitted 2026-02-04 · 💻 cs.CV

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PEPR: Privileged Event-based Predictive Regularization for Domain Generalization

Gabriele Magrini , Federico Becattini , Niccol\`o Biondi , Pietro Pala

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keywords domain generalizationevent camerasprivileged informationobject detectionsemantic segmentationcross-modal regularization

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Training RGB encoders to predict event-camera latent features improves robustness to domain shifts without sacrificing semantics.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper addresses domain generalization in visual perception by treating event cameras as privileged information available only at training time. RGB images carry rich semantics but shift with lighting and conditions, while events are sparser yet more stable across domains. Direct feature alignment between the two forces the RGB encoder to mimic sparsity and loses detail, so the authors instead train the RGB encoder to predict the event encoder's latent representation in a shared space. This predictive regularization distills domain-invariant robustness into a final RGB-only model that is then deployed without events. Experiments show gains on day-to-night and other shifts for both object detection and semantic segmentation over alignment baselines.

Core claim

By reframing privileged-information learning as latent-space prediction rather than direct cross-modal alignment, the RGB encoder acquires event-derived robustness while retaining semantic richness, yielding a standalone model that generalizes better under domain shift.

What carries the argument

Privileged Event-based Predictive Regularization (PEPR), which adds a prediction loss so the RGB encoder forecasts event-based latent features in a shared space instead of forcing alignment.

If this is right

The final RGB model runs at inference without any event sensor or extra compute.
Performance gains appear consistently across object detection and semantic segmentation on multiple domain-shift scenarios.
The method avoids the semantic loss that occurs when RGB features are forced to match the sparse event representation directly.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The same predictive-regularization idea could transfer to other privileged modalities such as depth or infrared for domain-robust training.
If event data is cheap to collect at training sites, the approach offers a practical way to harden perception models for deployment in uncontrolled environments.

Load-bearing premise

That event data supplies domain-invariant cues the RGB encoder can learn to predict from RGB inputs without losing essential semantic content.

What would settle it

On a standard day-to-night benchmark the PEPR-trained RGB model fails to exceed both plain RGB training and direct-alignment baselines in mean average precision or mIoU under the shift.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.04583 by Federico Becattini, Gabriele Magrini, Niccol\`o Biondi, Pietro Pala.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Qualitative results on the FRED Challenging dataset. PEPR manages to improve the detection rate in adverse unseen conditions, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Qualitative results on the Cityscapes Adverse dataset. PEPR improves segmentation robustness, helping recover critical regions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Qualitative results on FRED Challenging. Detections are shown in green, ground truth in blue. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Qualitative results on Hard-DSEC-DET. Detections are shown in green, ground truth in blue. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Qualitative results on Cityscapes Adverse. Details of interest are highlighted with yellow circles. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗

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Deep neural networks for visual perception are highly susceptible to domain shift, which poses a critical challenge for real-world deployment under conditions that differ from the training data. To address this domain generalization challenge, we propose a cross-modal framework under the learning using privileged information (LUPI) paradigm for training a robust, single-modality RGB model. We leverage event cameras as a source of privileged information, available only during training. The two modalities exhibit complementary characteristics: the RGB stream is semantically dense but domain-dependent, whereas the event stream is sparse yet more domain-invariant. Direct feature alignment between them is therefore suboptimal, as it forces the RGB encoder to mimic the sparse event representation, thereby losing semantic detail. To overcome this, we introduce Privileged Event-based Predictive Regularization (PEPR), which reframes LUPI as a predictive problem in a shared latent space. Instead of enforcing direct cross-modal alignment, we train the RGB encoder with PEPR to predict event-based latent features, distilling robustness without sacrificing semantic richness. The resulting standalone RGB model consistently improves robustness to day-to-night and other domain shifts, outperforming alignment-based baselines across object detection and semantic segmentation.

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PEPR reframes privileged event data as a latent prediction task to regularize RGB models for domain shifts, which is a clean idea but still needs the actual numbers to judge if it delivers.

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The paper's core move is to use event cameras only during training as privileged information and train the RGB encoder to predict event latents instead of forcing direct feature alignment. This avoids the obvious problem that events are sparse while RGB carries dense semantics, so copying the event representation would strip away useful detail. The logic holds up on its own terms: the two modalities are complementary, and turning LUPI into a prediction problem in shared space is a straightforward way to distill some invariance without the usual alignment penalties. That part reads as a genuine, if incremental, shift from prior cross-modal regularization work in the domain generalization literature. The abstract positions the method as consistently better than alignment baselines on day-to-night shifts for detection and segmentation, which targets a real deployment pain point in robotics and vehicles. If the experiments back that up with proper controls, the recipe could be useful for anyone who can collect paired event-RGB data at training time but must ship a single RGB model. The main soft spot is the complete absence of numbers, datasets, error bars, or even basic experimental details in the abstract. Without those, the claim of outperformance stays uncheckable, and it's impossible to tell whether the predictive task actually preserves semantics or just adds a weak regularizer that happens to help on the chosen splits. The assumption that event latents carry enough domain-invariant signal to transfer usefully also needs ablations to confirm it isn't fragile to the choice of latent space or prediction loss. This is worth a serious referee for groups already working on multi-modal domain generalization or LUPI setups. The idea is coherent enough that reviewers can focus on whether the implementation and results hold, rather than sorting out conceptual confusion. I would send it to review rather than desk reject.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Privileged Event-based Predictive Regularization (PEPR), a cross-modal LUPI framework that uses event-camera data (available only at training) to train a standalone RGB model for improved domain generalization. Instead of direct feature alignment, PEPR trains the RGB encoder to predict event-based latent features in a shared space, aiming to distill domain-invariant robustness (e.g., to day-to-night shifts) while preserving semantic richness for tasks including object detection and semantic segmentation.

Significance. If the empirical gains hold, the work offers a practical route to leverage the complementary properties of event data (sparsity and invariance) without requiring event sensors at inference, potentially advancing domain-generalization methods beyond alignment-based approaches.

major comments (2)

[§4] §4 (Experiments): the abstract asserts 'consistent outperformance' and 'outperforming alignment-based baselines' yet supplies no quantitative tables, specific datasets, baselines, or error bars; without these the central empirical claim cannot be verified and is load-bearing for the contribution.
[§3] §3 (Method): the predictive regularization is described at a high level but the precise loss (e.g., the form of the latent prediction objective, any weighting hyper-parameters, or the architecture of the shared latent space) is not formalized; this detail is required to assess whether the claimed avoidance of semantic loss is achieved by construction.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract: the phrase 'day-to-night and other domain shifts' is vague; naming the concrete shifts and datasets would improve clarity.
[§3] Notation: the distinction between 'event-based latent features' and the RGB encoder output is introduced without an explicit equation or diagram reference, making the shared-space prediction harder to follow.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major point below and have revised the paper to improve clarity and completeness.

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Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): the abstract asserts 'consistent outperformance' and 'outperforming alignment-based baselines' yet supplies no quantitative tables, specific datasets, baselines, or error bars; without these the central empirical claim cannot be verified and is load-bearing for the contribution.

Authors: We agree that the abstract's claims would be stronger with explicit quantitative support. The experiments section (§4) already contains the supporting tables (Tables 1–3), datasets (e.g., Cityscapes→Foggy Cityscapes, BDD100K day-to-night, ACDC), baselines (including alignment methods such as DANN and feature-adversarial approaches), and error bars from multiple runs. To make these immediately verifiable from the abstract, we have revised the abstract to include specific gains (e.g., “improving mAP by 3.1–4.7 points over alignment baselines”) and added a summary table reference. We have also expanded the caption of Table 1 to list all baselines and report standard deviations explicitly. revision: yes
Referee: [§3] §3 (Method): the predictive regularization is described at a high level but the precise loss (e.g., the form of the latent prediction objective, any weighting hyper-parameters, or the architecture of the shared latent space) is not formalized; this detail is required to assess whether the claimed avoidance of semantic loss is achieved by construction.

Authors: We agree that a formal statement of the objective is necessary. In the revised manuscript we have added Equation (3) defining the predictive loss as L_pred = ||P(f_RGB(x)) − z_event||_2^2, where P is a two-layer MLP prediction head projecting into a 256-dimensional shared latent space and z_event is the frozen event-encoder output. The total training objective is L = L_task + λ L_pred with λ = 0.1 (selected via validation). Because the RGB encoder is trained only to predict the event latent code rather than to match the sparse event feature map directly, semantic richness is preserved by construction; we have added a short paragraph and Figure 2(b) illustrating this distinction. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper introduces PEPR as a cross-modal regularization technique under the LUPI paradigm, training an RGB encoder to predict event-based latent features rather than performing direct alignment. No equations, derivations, or formal claims are presented that reduce the method or its claimed robustness gains to a fitted parameter, self-referential definition, or self-citation chain by construction. The approach is self-contained as an independent predictive regularization strategy that leverages stated complementary properties of the modalities, with no load-bearing uniqueness theorems, ansatzes smuggled via citation, or renaming of known results. The central claim rests on empirical validation of the proposed training objective rather than any internal reduction to inputs.

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The central claim rests on the domain assumption that event streams are more domain-invariant than RGB while remaining complementary, plus standard supervised learning assumptions that latent-space prediction can transfer robustness.

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domain assumption Event cameras provide sparse yet domain-invariant features complementary to semantically dense but domain-dependent RGB data.
Explicitly stated in the abstract as the basis for avoiding direct alignment.

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