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Optical imaging through diffusive, visually-opaque barriers, and around corners is an important challenge in many fields, ranging from defense to medical applications. Recently, novel techniques that combine time-of-flight (TOF)…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Ori Katz

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are an emerging sensor technology capable of detecting individual incident photons, and capturing their time-of-arrival with high timing precision. While these sensors were limited to single-pixel or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Sizhuo Ma , Shantanu Gupta , Arin C. Ulku , Claudio Bruschini , Edoardo Charbon , Mohit Gupta

We report a time-resolved single photon counting (TCSPC) imaging system based on a line-scanning architecture. The system benefits from the high fill-factor, active area, and large dimension of an advanced CMOS single photon avalanche diode…

Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) are affordable photodetectors, capable to collect extremely fast low-energy events, due to their single-photon sensibility. This makes them very suitable for time-of-flight-based range imaging systems,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-09 Quercus Hernandez , Diego Gutierrez , Adrian Jarabo

Long-range active imaging has a variety of applications in remote sensing and target recognition. Single-photon LiDAR (light detection and ranging) offers single-photon sensitivity and picosecond timing resolution, which is desirable for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Zheng-Ping Li , Xin Huang , Yuan Cao , Bin Wang , Yu-Huai Li , Weijie Jin , Chao Yu , Jun Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is based on capturing the multi-bounce indirect reflections from the hidden objects. Active NLOS imaging systems rely on the capture of the time of flight of light through the scene, and have shown great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Jiayong Peng , Fangzhou Mu , Ji Hyun Nam , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Yin Li , Andreas Velten , Zhiwei Xiong

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is a rapidly growing field seeking to form images of objects outside the field of view, with potential applications in search and rescue, reconnaissance, and even medical imaging. The critical challenge of…

Spatial correlations between two photons are the key resource in realising many quantum imaging schemes. Measurement of the bi-photon correlation map is typically performed using single-point scanning detectors or single-photon cameras…

3D time-of-flight (ToF) imaging is used in a variety of applications such as augmented reality (AR), computer interfaces, robotics and autonomous systems. Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are one of the enabling technologies providing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Germán Mora-Martín , Alex Turpin , Alice Ruget , Abderrahim Halimi , Robert Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

Long-range active imaging has widespread applications in remote sensing and target recognition. Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) has been shown to have high sensitivity and temporal resolution. On the application front,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Zheng-Ping Li , Jun-Tian Ye , Xin Huang , Peng-Yu Jiang , Yuan Cao , Yu Hong , Chao Yu , Jun Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are advanced sensors capable of detecting individual photons and recording their arrival times with picosecond resolution using time-correlated Single-Photon Counting detection techniques. They are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Alice Ruget , Lewis Wilson , Jonathan Leach , Rachael Tobin , Aongus Mccarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Steve Mclaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

Robust autonomous navigation in environments with limited visibility remains a critical challenge in robotics. We present a novel approach that leverages Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) sensing using single-photon LiDAR to improve visibility and…

Visual object recognition under situations in which the direct line-of-sight is blocked, such as when it is occluded around the corner, is of practical importance in a wide range of applications. With coherent illumination, the light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xin Lei , Liangyu He , Yixuan Tan , Ken Xingze Wang , Xinggang Wang , Yihan Du , Shanhui Fan , Zongfu Yu

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) have emerged as a crucial tool for high-resolution 3D imaging, particularly in autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, and augmented reality. However, the increasing demand for faster acquisition speed and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-28 Yixiu Shen , Zi Heng Lim , Guangya Zhou

Silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is a core device for single-photon detection in the visible and the near-infrared range, and widely used in many applications. However, due to limits of the structure design and device…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-17 Jian Ma , Ming Zhou , Zongfu Yu , Xiao Jiang , Yijie Huo , Kai Zang , Jun Zhang , James S. Harris , Ge Jin , Qiang Zhang , Jian-Wei Pan

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging methods are capable of reconstructing complex scenes that are not visible to an observer using indirect illumination. However, they assume only third-bounce illumination, so they are currently limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Diego Royo , Talha Sultan , Adolfo Muñoz , Khadijeh Masumnia-Bisheh , Eric Brandt , Diego Gutierrez , Andreas Velten , Julio Marco

Imaging with optical resolution through and inside complex samples is a difficult challenge with important applications in many fields. The fundamental problem is that inhomogeneous samples, such as biological tissues, randomly scatter and…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Pierre Heidmann , Mathias Fink , Sylvain Gigan

Consider the goal of visiting every part of a room that is not blocked by obstacles. Doing so efficiently requires both sensors and planning. Our findings suggest a method of inexpensive optical range finding for robotic room traversal. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Cole Smith , Eric Lin , Dennis Shasha

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging aims at recovering the 3D geometry of objects that are hidden from the direct line of sight. In the past, this method has suffered from the weak available multibounce signal limiting scene size, capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ji Hyun Nam , Eric Brandt , Sebastian Bauer , Xiaochun Liu , Eftychios Sifakis , Andreas Velten

A commonly encountered problem is the tracking of a physical object, like a maneuvering ship, aircraft, land vehicle, spacecraft or animate creature carrying a wireless device. The sensor data is often limited and inaccurate observations of…

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