arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

One Photon, Many Worlds: Posteriors and Predictions with Single-Photon Cameras

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cameras produce binary images where each pixel records zero or one photon arrival, making scene reconstruction a fundamentally one-to-many inverse problem. As more binary frames are accumulated, the uncertainty diminishes, transitioning from stochastic to near-deterministic scene understanding. The study introduces a conditional generative framework using a Hypergeometric frame‑thinning process to model this ambiguity and evaluates its impact on tasks such as character recognition, QR code decoding, and facial analysis.

By Haejoon Lee (Carnegie Mellon University), Mohit Gupta (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Vijayakumar Bhagavatula (Carnegie Mellon University), Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 28

EvLIR: Learning Illumination Residuals from Ordered Events for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Low-light image enhancement is severely ill-posed when the input frame contains missing structure, saturated noise, and weak local contrast. Event cameras provide asynchronous brightness-change observations with high temporal resolution, but prior works often treat voxel channels as an unordered or static feature stack before fusion, rather than explicitly modeling their within-window temporal evolution, weakening the temporal evidence that makes events useful.