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DeLux: Cross-Modal Local Artifact Restoration in Video Using Neuromorphic Data

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keywords cross-modal restorationneuromorphic eventslighting artifact removalvideo inpaintingevent camera guidanceautomotive visionlocal artifact suppression
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The pith

Neuromorphic event streams guide targeted detection and inpainting to restore lighting artifacts in RGB video.

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

The paper presents a cross-modal method that treats event camera data as a structural prior to locate and repair local lighting problems such as flare, glare, and overexposure in ordinary video frames. Conventional single-modality approaches leave regions completely hidden by these artifacts unrecoverable, but the proposed pipeline uses the timing and edge information from neuromorphic streams to direct inpainting only where needed. Experiments on synthetic data and real automotive sequences show the method exceeds RGB-only baselines and prior event-guided models, reaching average MS-SSIM scores above 0.99 and cutting artifact severity by as much as 88 percent. The work also releases synthetic generation tools and curated real-world datasets to support further study of similar cross-modal restoration tasks.

Core claim

DeLux is a modular pipeline that uses neuromorphic event streams as a structural prior to guide the targeted detection and inpainting of lighting artifacts in RGB video, suppressing local degradations and restoring affected regions more effectively than existing RGB-only baselines or event-guided HDR models.

What carries the argument

Cross-modal restoration paradigm in which neuromorphic event streams supply a structural prior for selective artifact detection and inpainting.

If this is right

  • Local artifacts that completely obscure image structure become recoverable without global frame alteration.
  • Performance gains hold on both synthetic benchmarks and real automotive footage.
  • The same modular design can be applied to additional artifact types once suitable event-RGB pairs are available.
  • Public release of artifact generation tools and evaluation datasets enables direct comparison by other methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The approach may generalize to other sensor pairs where one modality preserves edges lost in the other.
  • Real-time versions could be tested by measuring end-to-end latency on embedded automotive hardware.
  • Combining the event prior with existing HDR pipelines might further reduce residual overexposure artifacts.

Load-bearing premise

Neuromorphic event streams supply a reliable and accurately aligned structural prior even for regions fully hidden by complex lighting artifacts.

What would settle it

A controlled test in which event data is deliberately misaligned with the RGB frames or fails to register edges inside artifact regions, after which the inpainting step produces visible structural errors or lower MS-SSIM scores than RGB-only baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.27576 by Bartosz Stachowiak, Dariusz Brzezinski.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed DeLux framework for cross-modal local artifact restoration. To address the challenge of localized image information loss, our modu￾lar pipeline explicitly decouples artifact detection from multimodal fusion and image inpainting. As illustrated, an RGB frame corrupted by glare is processed alongside a corresponding neuromorphic event window. By using event-to-video reconstruction as… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Examples of lighting artifacts. However, existing image and video restoration methods address these arti￾facts only in isolation, for example, by mitigating only glare [24,38,44], flare [7, 8, 51], global overexposure [11, 27, 30, 47, 55–57] or flicker [12, 23, 25]. Moreover, there is a difference in how these lighting problems are tackled. High dynamic range (HDR) reconstruction methods perform global ton… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Comparison showing that event-based data can recover details obscured by lighting artifacts. The overexposed RGB image (left) loses all structure at the tunnel exit, while the corresponding raw event data (center) retain brightness changes. The event-based reconstruction (right) restores the scene details. To further validate the feasibility of treating various lighting artifacts as instances of the propos… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: DeLux training pipeline. The architecture diagram (left) illustrates the shared U-Net backbone and its building blocks, parameterized by the number of convolutional blocks n, block depth m, and kernel size k. The training pipeline (right) depicts the end￾to-end joint optimization setup with synthetic artifact generation, multimodal inputs, and the composite loss functions defined in Section 3.5. Synthetic … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison of artifact removal (top row) and artifact detection (bottom row) on different kinds of synthetic artifacts [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Comparison of artifact removal on real-world recordings. Zoom-ins (red border) provided for better visual assessment. Qualitative visual assessments of synthetic and real-world artifacts ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png] view at source ↗
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Conventional RGB cameras suffer from lighting artifacts such as flare, glare, flicker, and overexposure, leading to irrecoverable information loss that necessitates computational restoration. However, existing approaches treat these problems in isolation, failing to recover structural details completely obscured by complex spatially discrete image degradations. In this paper, we propose a novel cross-modal restoration paradigm and present DeLux, a modular proof-of-concept pipeline that leverages neuromorphic event streams as a structural prior to guide the targeted detection and inpainting of lighting artifacts in RGB video. Validation on synthetic benchmarks and real-world automotive footage demonstrates that DeLux effectively suppresses local artifacts and restores affected regions. The proposed approach outperforms existing RGB-only baselines and event-guided HDR models, achieving an average MS-SSIM of over 0.99 across all artifact types and demonstrating up to an 88% reduction in artifact severity in real-world automotive footage. The synthetic artifact generation tools and curated real-world evaluation datasets are made publicly available to foster future research on cross-modal restoration.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces DeLux, a modular proof-of-concept pipeline for cross-modal local artifact restoration in RGB video. It uses neuromorphic event streams as a structural prior to guide targeted detection and inpainting of spatially discrete lighting artifacts (flare, glare, flicker, overexposure). Validation on synthetic benchmarks and real-world automotive footage claims that DeLux outperforms RGB-only baselines and event-guided HDR models, achieving average MS-SSIM > 0.99 across artifact types and up to 88% reduction in artifact severity. Synthetic artifact generation tools and curated real-world datasets are released publicly.

Significance. If the results hold under rigorous validation, the work would advance handling of irrecoverable local degradations in video by demonstrating a practical cross-modal approach. The public release of datasets and tools is a clear strength that supports reproducibility and future research. The modular design aids extensibility.

major comments (2)
  1. [Validation on synthetic benchmarks and real-world automotive footage (abstract and experimental sections)] The central performance claims (MS-SSIM > 0.99, 88% severity reduction) rest on the untested assumption that event streams supply usable scene structure inside completely obscured artifact masks. No ablation or controlled experiment is reported on cases of zero or near-zero events within masks (static/saturated regions), which would reduce the pipeline to standard RGB inpainting whose success is not independently shown. This is load-bearing for the cross-modal paradigm.
  2. [Cross-modal restoration paradigm description] Pixel-level alignment between event streams and RGB frames, plus encoding of structure under absent intensity changes, is assumed rather than validated under controlled sparsity or misalignment. The abstract and paradigm description treat this prior as given.
minor comments (2)
  1. Clarify the exact modular components and their interfaces in a diagram or pseudocode to aid reproducibility.
  2. The public dataset release is noted positively; ensure the paper includes explicit links and usage instructions.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and the recommendation for major revision. We address each major comment below and agree that targeted additions will strengthen the validation of the cross-modal claims.

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  1. Referee: [Validation on synthetic benchmarks and real-world automotive footage (abstract and experimental sections)] The central performance claims (MS-SSIM > 0.99, 88% severity reduction) rest on the untested assumption that event streams supply usable scene structure inside completely obscured artifact masks. No ablation or controlled experiment is reported on cases of zero or near-zero events within masks (static/saturated regions), which would reduce the pipeline to standard RGB inpainting whose success is not independently shown. This is load-bearing for the cross-modal paradigm.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript does not report an explicit ablation isolating zero or near-zero event density inside artifact masks. The synthetic generation and real-world automotive data were constructed to include correlated events, but this does not directly test the reduction to RGB-only inpainting. In the revision we will add a controlled ablation that masks event input within artifact regions (including zero-event cases) and reports separate metrics against RGB-only baselines to clarify when the event prior contributes. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Cross-modal restoration paradigm description] Pixel-level alignment between event streams and RGB frames, plus encoding of structure under absent intensity changes, is assumed rather than validated under controlled sparsity or misalignment. The abstract and paradigm description treat this prior as given.

    Authors: The current description relies on standard extrinsic calibration between the co-located RGB and event sensors. We acknowledge that controlled tests under varying event sparsity and small misalignment are not presented. The revised manuscript will expand the paradigm section with a short robustness study (or supplementary figure) that varies event density and introduces controlled spatial offsets to quantify sensitivity. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical pipeline with no self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper describes a modular cross-modal pipeline that uses event streams as a structural prior for artifact detection and inpainting. No equations, fitting procedures, or derivation steps are presented that reduce a claimed prediction or result to its own inputs by construction. Performance metrics (MS-SSIM >0.99, 88% severity reduction) are reported from validation on synthetic benchmarks and real-world footage rather than from any fitted parameter renamed as a prediction. No self-citation chains or uniqueness theorems are invoked as load-bearing premises. The central assumption about event data alignment and structure is treated as an empirical premise to be tested, not a definitional tautology.

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Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; all details on implementation and assumptions are absent.

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    These parameters are necessary for projecting event data into the RGB image plane and are a prerequisite for accurate spatial alignment between the two modalities

    Automatic Spatial Alignment Intrinsic Parameter Estimation.The internal camera parameters define the in- ternal geometry of the camera, including the focal length, the principal point, and the distortion of the lens [15]. These parameters are necessary for projecting event data into the RGB image plane and are a prerequisite for accurate spatial alignment...