Fast Depth Imaging Denoising with the Temporal Correlation of Photons
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel method to filter out the false alarm of LiDAR system by using the temporal correlation of target reflected photons. Because of the inevitable noise, which is due to background light and dark counts of the detector, the depth imaging of LiDAR system exists a large estimation error. Our method combines the Poisson statistical model with the different distribution feature of signal and noise in the time axis. Due to selecting a proper threshold, our method can effectively filter out the false alarm of system and use the ToFs of detected signal photons to rebuild the depth image of the scene. The experimental results reveal that by our method it can fast distinguish the distance between two close objects, which is confused due to the high background noise, and acquire the accurate depth image of the scene. Our method need not increase the complexity of the system and is useful in power-limited depth imaging.
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@article{arxiv.1707.01136,
title = {Fast Depth Imaging Denoising with the Temporal Correlation of Photons},
author = {Zhenchao Feng and Weiji He and Jian Fang and Guohua Gu and Qian Chen and Ping Zhang and Yuanjin Chen and Beibei Zhou and Minhua Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01136},
year = {2017}
}