# Bilateral Event Mining and Complementary for Event Stream Super-Resolution

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10037 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.10037/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 26 of its 46 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 16 May 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 26 of 26)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.03924/) (2018)
- [Real-Time Single Image and Video Super-Resolution Using an Efficient Sub-Pixel Convolutional Neural Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.05158/) (2016)
- [Event-based Vision: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.08405/) (2019)
- [Activating More Pixels in Image Super-Resolution Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.04437/) (2022)
- [High Speed and High Dynamic Range Video with an Event Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.07165/) (2019)
- [BasicVSR++: Improving Video Super-Resolution with Enhanced Propagation and Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.13371/) (2021)
- [BasicVSR: The Search for Essential Components in Video Super-Resolution and Beyond](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.02181/) (2020)
- [EV-FlowNet: Self-Supervised Optical Flow Estimation for Event-based Cameras](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.06898/) (2018)
- [HATS: Histograms of Averaged Time Surfaces for Robust Event-based Object Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.07913/) (2018)
- [End-to-End Learning of Representations for Asynchronous Event-Based Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.08245/) (2019)
- [Event-based Vision meets Deep Learning on Steering Prediction for Self-driving Cars](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.01310/) (2018)
- [Feedback Network for Image Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.09814/) (2019)
- [TimeLens: Event-based Video Frame Interpolation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.07286/) (2021)
- [Need for Speed: A Benchmark for Higher Frame Rate Object Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.05884/) (2017)
- [Time Lens++: Event-based Frame Interpolation with Parametric Non-linear Flow and Multi-scale Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.17191/) (2022)
- [N-ImageNet: Towards Robust, Fine-Grained Object Recognition with Event Cameras](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.01041/) (2021)
- [Efficient Video Super-Resolution through Recurrent Latent Space Propagation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.08080/) (2019)
- [Semi-Dense 3D Reconstruction with a Stereo Event Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.07429/) (2018)
- [EventCap: Monocular 3D Capture of High-Speed Human Motions using an Event Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.11505/) (2019)
- [RSTT: Real-time Spatial Temporal Transformer for Space-Time Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14186/) (2022)
- [SODFormer: Streaming Object Detection with Transformer Using Events and Frames](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.04047/) (2023)
- [Learning Spatial-Temporal Implicit Neural Representations for Event-Guided Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.13767/) (2023)
- [Learning Generative Structure Prior for Blind Text Image Super-resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.14726/) (2023)
- [Look Back and Forth: Video Super-Resolution with Explicit Temporal Difference Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.07114/) (2022)
- [Are High-Resolution Event Cameras Really Needed?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14672/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Recent Event Camera Innovations: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.13627/) (2024)
- [Ultralight Polarity-Split Neuromorphic SNN for Event-Stream Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.03244/) (2025)
- [Event Camera Guided Visual Media Restoration & 3D Reconstruction: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.09971/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Event Stream Super-Resolution (ESR) aims to address the challenge of insufficient spatial resolution in event streams, which holds great significance for the application of event cameras in complex scenarios. Previous works for ESR often process positive and negative events in a mixed paradigm. This paradigm limits their ability to effectively model the unique characteristics of each event and mutually refine each other by considering their correlations. In this paper, we propose a bilateral event mining and complementary network (BMCNet) to fully leverage the potential of each event and capture the shared information to complement each other simultaneously. Specifically, we resort to a two-stream network to accomplish comprehensive mining of each type of events individually. To facilitate the exchange of information between two streams, we propose a bilateral information exchange (BIE) module. This module is layer-wisely embedded between two streams, enabling the effective propagation of hierarchical global information while alleviating the impact of invalid information brought by inherent characteristics of events. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach outperforms the previous state-of-the-art methods in ESR, achieving performance improvements of over 11% on both real and synthetic datasets. Moreover, our method significantly enhances the performance of event-based downstream tasks such as object recognition and video reconstruction. Our code is available at https://github.com/Lqm26/BMCNet-ESR.
