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High Speed and High Dynamic Range Video with an Event Camera

High Speed and High Dynamic Range Video with an Event Camera

This is the code for the paper High Speed and High Dynamic Range Video with an Event Camera by Henri Rebecq, Rene Ranftl, Vladlen Koltun and Davide Scaramuzza:

You can find a pdf of the paper here. If you use any of this code, please cite the following publications:

@Article{Rebecq19pami,
  author        = {Henri Rebecq and Ren{\'{e}} Ranftl and Vladlen Koltun and Davide Scaramuzza},
  title         = {High Speed and High Dynamic Range Video with an Event Camera},
  journal       = {{IEEE} Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (T-PAMI)},
  url           = {http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/TPAMI19_Rebecq.pdf},
  year          = 2019
}

@Article{Rebecq19cvpr,
  author        = {Henri Rebecq and Ren{\'{e}} Ranftl and Vladlen Koltun and Davide Scaramuzza},
  title         = {Events-to-Video: Bringing Modern Computer Vision to Event Cameras},
  journal       = {{IEEE} Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recog. (CVPR)},
  year          = 2019
}

Install

Dependencies:

Install with Anaconda

The installation requires Anaconda3. You can create a new Anaconda environment with the required dependencies as follows (make sure to adapt the CUDA toolkit version according to your setup):

conda create -n E2VID
conda activate E2VID
conda install pytorch torchvision cudatoolkit=10.0 -c pytorch
conda install pandas
conda install -c conda-forge opencv

Run

wget "http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/data/E2VID/models/E2VID_lightweight.pth.tar" -O pretrained/E2VID_lightweight.pth.tar

wget "http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/data/E2VID/datasets/ECD_IJRR17/dynamic_6dof.zip" -O data/dynamic_6dof.zip

Before running the reconstruction, make sure the conda environment is sourced:

conda activate E2VID

python run_reconstruction.py \
  -c pretrained/E2VID_lightweight.pth.tar \
  -i data/dynamic_6dof.zip \
  --auto_hdr \
  --display \
  --show_events

Parameters

Below is a description of the most important parameters:

Main parameters

Output parameters

Display parameters

Additional parameters

Example datasets

We provide a list of example (publicly available) event datasets to get started with E2VID.

Working with ROS

Because PyTorch recommends Python 3 and ROS is only compatible with Python2, it is not straightforward to have the PyTorch reconstruction code and ROS code running in the same environment. To make things easy, the reconstruction code we provide has no dependency on ROS, and simply read events from a text file or ZIP file. We provide convenience functions to convert ROS bags (a popular format for event datasets) into event text files. In addition, we also provide scripts to convert a folder containing image reconstructions back to a rosbag (or to append image reconstructions to an existing rosbag).

Note: it is not necessary to have a sourced conda environment to run the following scripts. However, ROS needs to be installed and sourced.

rosbag -> events.txt

To extract the events from a rosbag to a zip file containing the event data:

python scripts/extract_events_from_rosbag.py /path/to/rosbag.bag \
  --output_folder=/path/to/output/folder \
  --event_topic=/dvs/events

image reconstruction folder -> rosbag

python scripts/image_folder_to_rosbag.py \
  --datasets dynamic_6dof \
  --image_folder /path/to/image/folder \
  --output_folder /path/to/output_folder \
  --image_topic /dvs/image_reconstructed

Append image_reconstruction_folder to an existing rosbag

cd scripts
python embed_reconstructed_images_in_rosbag.py \
  --rosbag_folder /path/to/rosbag/folder \
  --datasets dynamic_6dof \
  --image_folder /path/to/image/folder \
  --output_folder /path/to/output_folder \
  --image_topic /dvs/image_reconstructed

Generating a video reconstruction (with a fixed framerate)

It can be convenient to convert an image folder to a video with a fixed framerate (for example for use in a video editing tool). You can proceed as follows:

export FRAMERATE=30
python resample_reconstructions.py -i /path/to/input_folder -o /tmp/resampled -r $FRAMERATE
ffmpeg -framerate $FRAMERATE -i /tmp/resampled/frame_%010d.png video_"$FRAMERATE"Hz.mp4

Acknowledgements

This code borrows from the following open source projects, whom we would like to thank: