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Depth is a very important modality in computer vision, typically used as complementary information to RGB, provided by RGB-D cameras. In this work, we show that it is possible to obtain the same level of accuracy as RGB-D cameras on a…

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Near-field (NF) passive radar imaging depends on the illumination of the imaging scene by a non-cooperative transmitter (Tx). It is demonstrated that combining imaging results obtained with Tx antennas at different positions can enhance the…

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An indirect Pulse-based Time-of-Flight camera can be modelled as a linear sensing system in which the target's depth is recovered from few measurements through a sensing matrix formed by a set of demodulation functions. Each demodulation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Alvaro Lopez Paredes , Miguel Heredia Conde

This paper presents a novel iToF-RGB fusion framework designed to address the inherent limitations of indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) depth sensing, such as low spatial resolution, limited field-of-view (FoV), and structural distortion in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yansong Du , Yutong Deng , Yuting Zhou , Feiyu Jiao , Jian Song , Xun Guan

Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors efficiently capture scene depth, but the nonlinear depth construction procedure often results in extremely large noise variance or even invalid areas. Recent methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve…

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Multi-point vehicular positioning is one essential operation for autonomous vehicles. However, the state-of-the-art positioning technologies, relying on reflected signals from a target (i.e., RADAR and LIDAR), cannot work without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Zezhong Zhang , Seung-Woo Ko , Rui Wang , Kaibin Huang

Since its inception, velocity map imaging (VMI) has been a powerful tool for measuring the 2D momentum distribution of photoelectrons generated by strong laser fields. There has been continued interest in expanding it into 3D measurements…

3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) image sensors are used widely in applications such as self-driving cars, Augmented Reality (AR) and robotics. When implemented with Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs), compact, array format sensors can be made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Germán Mora Martín , Stirling Scholes , Alice Ruget , Robert K. Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

For more than twenty years, Ray Tracing methods have continued to improve on both accuracy and computational time aspects. However, most state-of-the-art image-based ray tracers still rely on a description of the environment that only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Jérome Eertmans , Claude Oestges , Laurent Jacques

In this paper, we report for the first time on a new channel modelling technique for multi-link LiFi scenarios. By considering simplified numerical calculation, it models the links between multiple optical frontends and multiple mobile…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Sreelal Maravanchery Mana , Kerolos Gabra Kamel Gabra , Sepideh Mohammadi Kouhini , Peter Hellwig , Jonas Hilt , Volker Jungnickel

Long-distance depth imaging holds great promise for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Direct time-of-flight (dToF) imaging offers high-precision, long-distance depth sensing, yet demands ultra-short pulse light sources…

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Accurate localization and perception are pivotal for enhancing the safety and reliability of vehicles. However, current localization methods suffer from reduced accuracy when the line-of-sight (LOS) path is obstructed, or a combination of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Yinuo Du , Hanying Zhao , Yang Liu , Xinlei Yu , Yuan Shen

Reciprocity is a fundamental principle of wave physics and directly relates to the symmetry in the transmission through a system when interchanging the input and output. The coherent transmission matrix (TM) is a convenient method to…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-08 Szu-Yu Lee , Vicente J. Parot , Brett E. Bouma , Martin Villiger

As light travels through a disordered medium such as biological tissues, it undergoes multiple scattering events. This phenomenon is detrimental to in-depth optical microscopy, as it causes a drastic degradation of contrast, resolution and…

We present a novel approach to joint depth and normal estimation for time-of-flight (ToF) sensors. Our model learns to predict the high-quality depth and normal maps jointly from ToF raw sensor data. To achieve this, we meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Rongrong Gao , Na Fan , Changlin Li , Wentao Liu , Qifeng Chen

Correlation plenoptic imaging (CPI) is emerging as a promising approach to light-field imaging (LFI), a technique enabling simultaneous measurement of light intensity distribution and propagation direction from a scene. LFI allows…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 Gianlorenzo Massaro

Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors provide efficient active depth sensing at relatively low power budgets; among such designs, only very sparse measurements from low-resolution sensors are considered to meet the increasingly limited power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Andrea Conti , Matteo Poggi , Valerio Cambareri , Martin R. Oswald , Stefano Mattoccia

High-rank line-of-sight (LOS) MIMO systems have attracted considerable attention for millimeter wave and THz communications. The small wavelengths in these frequencies enable spatial multiplexing with massive data rates at long distances.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Yaqi Hu , Mingsheng Yin , Sundeep Rangan , Marco Mezzavilla

Correlation plenoptic imaging (CPI) is a light-field imaging technique employing intensity correlation measurements to simultaneously detect the spatial distribution and the propagation direction of light. Compared to standard methods, in…

Inverse path tracing has recently been applied to joint material and lighting estimation, given geometry and multi-view HDR observations of an indoor scene. However, it has two major limitations: path tracing is expensive to compute, and…

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