HFR and HDR Video from Multi-Attenuated Spikes Using a Rapidly Rotating SpokeND Filter

Abstract

Capturing scenes with both high dynamic range (HDR) and high-speed motion remains challenging for conventional cameras. Existing alternating-exposure approaches exacerbate temporal resolution loss, making them unsuitable for high-speed scenes. Consequently, current solutions typically compromise either spatial resolution through fixed spatial-varying attenuation levels or employ multi-sensor configurations to maintain temporal resolution. In this paper, we leverage an ultra-high speed spike camera to enable spatial and temporal attenuation of incident light, thereby reconstructing high frame rate (HFR) and HDR video with a single sensor. We achieve this by placing a rapidly rotating spoke-pattern neutral density (SpokeND) filter in front of the spike camera, enabling each pixel to periodically capture multi-attenuated spikes while maintaining full spatial resolution. Building on these multi-attenuated spikes, we propose ReST-Net, which comprises the ReGain and ReFine modules. The ReGain module reconstructs spatially consistent frames by learning to recover relative gain from the multi-attenuated spikes, and the ReFine module removes temporal fluctuations to produce temporally consistent HDR videos. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world data demonstrate that our method can reconstruct HDR video at up to 2000 FPS.