LiFR-Seg: Anytime High-Frame-Rate Segmentation via Event-Guided Propagation

Xiaoshan Wu, Xiaoyang Lyu, Yifei Yu, Bo Wang, Zhongrui Wang, XIAOJUAN QI

International Conference on Learning Representations 2026 (ICLR 2026) Conference

Dense semantic segmentation in dynamic environments is fundamentally limited by the low-frame-rate (LFR) nature of standard cameras, which creates critical perceptual gaps between frames. To solve this, we introduce Anytime Interframe Semantic Segmentation: a new task for predicting segmentation at any arbitrary time using only a single past RGB frame and a stream of asynchronous event data. This task presents a core challenge: how to robustly propagate dense semantic features using a motion field derived from sparse and often noisy event data, all while mitigating feature degradation in highly dynamic scenes. We propose LiFR-Seg, a novel framework that directly addresses these challenges by propagating deep semantic features through time. The core of our method is an uncertainty-aware warping process, guided by an event-driven motion field and its learned, explicit confidence. A temporal memory attention module further ensures coherence in dynamic scenarios. We validate our method on the DSEC dataset and a new high-frequency synthetic benchmark (SHF-DSEC) we contribute. Remarkably, our LFR system achieves performance (73.82\% mIoU on DSEC) that is statistically indistinguishable from an HFR upper-bound (within 0.09\%) that has full access to the target frame. % We further demonstrate superior robustness in highly dynamic (M3ED-Drone & Quadruped) and low-light (DSEC-Night) scenarios, where our method can even surpass the HFR baseline. We further demonstrate superior robustness across extreme scenarios: in highly dynamic (M3ED) tests, our method closely matches the HFR baseline's performance, while in the low-light (DSEC-Night) evaluation, it even surpasses it. This work presents a new, efficient paradigm for achieving robust, high-frame-rate perception with low-frame-rate hardware.