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Ultralight Polarity-Split Neuromorphic SNN for Event-Stream Super-Resolution

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-12-01 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

Event cameras offer unparalleled advantages such as high temporal resolution, low latency, and high dynamic range. However, their limited spatial resolution poses challenges for fine-grained perception tasks. In this work, we propose an ultra-lightweight, stream-based event-to-event super-resolution method based on Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), designed for real-time deployment on resource-constrained devices. To further reduce model size, we introduce a novel Dual-Forward Polarity-Split Event Encoding strategy that decouples positive and negative events into separate forward paths through a shared SNN. Furthermore, we propose a Learnable Spatio-temporal Polarity-aware Loss (LearnSTPLoss) that adaptively balances temporal, spatial, and polarity consistency using learnable uncertainty-based weights. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves competitive super-resolution performance on multiple datasets while significantly reducing model size and inference time. The lightweight design enables embedding the module into event cameras or using it as an efficient front-end preprocessing for downstream vision tasks.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2508.03244,
  title  = {Ultralight Polarity-Split Neuromorphic SNN for Event-Stream Super-Resolution},
  author = {Chuanzhi Xu and Haoxian Zhou and Langyi Chen and Yuk Ying Chung and Qiang Qu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.03244},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

8 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables, accepted by AAAI2026

R2 v1 2026-07-01T04:34:48.725Z