Visual–Inertial Fusion-Based Restoration of Image Degradation in High-Dynamic Scenes with Rolling Shutter Cameras

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Authors: Jianbin Ye, Cengfeng Luo, Qiuxuan Wu, Yuejun Ye, Shenao Li, Yiqun Chen, A. H.-T. Li
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Abstract

Rolling shutter CMOS cameras are widely used in mobile and embedded vision, but rapid motion and vibration often cause coupled degradations, including motion blur and rolling shutter (RS) geometric distortion. This paper presents a visual-inertial fusion framework that estimates unified motion-related degradation parameters from IMU and image measurements and uses them to restore both photometric and geometric image quality in high-dynamic scenes. We further introduce an exposure-aware deblurring pipeline that accounts for the nonlinear photoelectric conversion characteristics of CMOS sensors, as well as a perspective-consistent RS compensation method to improve geometric consistency under depth-motion coupling. Experiments on real mobile data and public RS-visual-inertial sequences demonstrate improved image quality and downstream SLAM pose accuracy compared with representative baselines.

Fields of Study & Subjects

CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors Advanced Image Processing Techniques Advanced Vision and Imaging

Publication details

Journal / source
Sensors
Publisher
MDPI AG
Volume
26
Issue
4
Pages
1189–1189
Publication date
12 February 2026
Language
EN