A Denoising Method Based on Pulse Interval Compensation for High-Speed Spike-Based Image Sensor

In order to eliminate the noise on the pulse interval of high-speed spike-based image sensor, a pulse interval compensation (PIC) algorithm is proposed. Based on the analysis of the principle of sensor noise generation, a pulse interval error model is constructed and the compensation algorithm is developed. First, raw pulse data is obtained from the sensor system, and then the coefficient matrix is used to compensate the non-uniform pulse interval caused by the dark current. Then, the guided filter separates high-frequency noise from scenes details and the pulse interval compensation matrix is obtained in the corresponding pulse interval. Finally, the pulse interval compensation is performed on the raw pulse data for correction. In static scene experiments, the proposed method is compared with the existing state-of-the-art methods and shows a clear advantage in denoising in both low texture and rich texture scenes. In the experiment to film a turntable at a rotation speed of 2000 r/min, 3000 r/min, 6000 r/min, the average roughness decreases from 0.2830 to 0.2034, 0.2937 to 0.2139 and 0.3252 to 0.2501 respectively. These experiments proved that the proposed method can effectively eliminate the noise of the spike-based image sensor.