# Spike Camera and Its Coding Methods

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04669 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.04669/

## Key facts

- Cited by 19 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 10 Apr 2021.

## Built on by (most cited first, 19 of 19)

- [Unsupervised Spike Depth Estimation via Cross-modality Cross-domain Knowledge Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.12527/) (2022)
- [SpikeCV: Open a Continuous Computer Vision Era](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11684/) (2023)
- [Spike-NeRF: Neural Radiance Field Based On Spike Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.16410/) (2024)
- [Unveiling the Potential of Spike Streams for Foreground Occlusion Removal from Densely Continuous Views](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.00821/) (2023)
- [SpikeGS: Reconstruct 3D scene via fast-moving bio-inspired sensors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.03771/) (2024)
- [SpikeNVS: Enhancing Novel View Synthesis from Blurry Images via Spike Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.06710/) (2024)
- [SOTA: Spike-Navigated Optimal TrAnsport Saliency Region Detection in Composite-bias Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.00394/) (2025)
- [Finding Visual Saliency in Continuous Spike Stream](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.06233/) (2024)
- [Quanta Video Restoration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.14994/) (2024)
- [SpikeCodec: An End-to-end Learned Compression Framework for Spiking Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.14108/) (2023)
- [Training Robust Spiking Neural Networks with ViewPoint Transform and SpatioTemporal Stretching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.07609/) (2023)
- [SpikeDerain: Unveiling Clear Videos from Rainy Sequences Using Color Spike Streams](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.20315/) (2025)
- [SpikeStereoNet: A Brain-Inspired Framework for Stereo Depth Estimation from Spike Streams](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.19487/) (2025)
- [SwinSF: Image Reconstruction from Spatial-Temporal Spike Streams](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.15708/) (2024)
- [Spike Imaging Velocimetry: Dense Motion Estimation of Fluids Using Spike Cameras](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.18864/) (2025)
- [SpikePingpong: Spike Vision-based Fast-Slow Pingpong Robot System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.06690/) (2025)
- [SPACT18: Spiking Human Action Recognition Benchmark Dataset with Complementary RGB and Thermal Modalities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.16151/) (2025)
- [Driving in Spikes: An Entropy-Guided Object Detector for Spike Cameras](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.15459/) (2025)
- [Neuromorphic Object Detection: An In-Depth Study and Future Directions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.23576/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper introduces a spike camera with a distinct video capture scheme and proposes two methods of decoding the spike stream for texture reconstruction. The spike camera captures light and accumulates the converted luminance intensity at each pixel. A spike is fired when the accumulated intensity exceeds the dispatch threshold. The spike stream generated by the camera indicates the luminance variation. Analyzing the patterns of the spike stream makes it possible to reconstruct the picture of any moment which enables the playback of high speed movement.