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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

Recently, it is increasingly popular to equip mobile RGB cameras with Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors for active depth sensing. However, for off-the-shelf ToF sensors, one must tackle two problems in order to obtain high-quality depth with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Di Qiu , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Chengxi Yang

We propose a novel method of efficient upsampling of a single natural image. Current methods for image upsampling tend to produce high-resolution images with either blurry salient edges, or loss of fine textural detail, or spurious noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Chinmay Hegde , Oncel Tuzel , Fatih Porikli

Indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) cameras are a widespread type of 3D sensor, which perform multiple captures to obtain depth values of the captured scene. While recent approaches to correct iToF depths achieve high performance when removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Michael Schelling , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

We present an improved model for MRF-based depth upsampling, guided by image- as well as 3D surface normal features. By exploiting the underlying camera model we define a novel regularization term that implicitly evaluates the planarity of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Sascha Wirges , Björn Roxin , Eike Rehder , Tilman Kühner , Martin Lauer

RGBD images, combining high-resolution color and lower-resolution depth from various types of depth sensors, are increasingly common. One can significantly improve the resolution of depth maps by taking advantage of color information; deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Oleg Voynov , Alexey Artemov , Vage Egiazarian , Alexander Notchenko , Gleb Bobrovskikh , Denis Zorin , Evgeny Burnaev

Indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) cameras are a promising depth sensing technology. However, they are prone to errors caused by multi-path interference (MPI) and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Traditional methods, after denoising, mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Felipe Gutierrez-Barragan , Huaijin Chen , Mohit Gupta , Andreas Velten , Jinwei Gu

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

We present a simple and efficient method for refining maps or correspondences by iterative upsampling in the spectral domain that can be implemented in a few lines of code. Our main observation is that high quality maps can be obtained even…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Simone Melzi , Jing Ren , Emanuele Rodolà , Abhishek Sharma , Peter Wonka , Maks Ovsjanikov

Depth cameras are emerging as a cornerstone modality with diverse applications that directly or indirectly rely on measured depth, including personal devices, robotics, and self-driving vehicles. Although time-of-flight (ToF) methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Seung-Hwan Baek , Noah Walsh , Ilya Chugunov , Zheng Shi , Felix Heide

We present a novel method for accurate and efficient up- sampling of sparse depth data, guided by high-resolution imagery. Our approach goes beyond the use of intensity cues only and additionally exploits object boundary cues through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Nick Schneider , Lukas Schneider , Peter Pinggera , Uwe Franke , Marc Pollefeys , Christoph Stiller

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are subject to high levels of noise and distortions due to Multi-Path-Interference (MPI). While recent research showed that 2D neural networks are able to outperform previous traditional State-of-the-Art (SOTA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Michael Schelling , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

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

The creation of high-fidelity 3D assets is often hindered by a 'pixel-level pain point': the loss of high-frequency details. Existing methods often trade off one aspect for another: either sacrificing cross-view consistency, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lu Xiao , Jiale Zhang , Yang Liu , Taicheng Huang , Xin Tian

High-accuracy per-pixel depth is vital for computational photography, so smartphones now have multimodal camera systems with time-of-flight (ToF) depth sensors and multiple color cameras. However, producing accurate high-resolution depth is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Andreas Meuleman , Hakyeong Kim , James Tompkin , Min H. Kim

Sparse active illumination enables precise time-of-flight depth sensing as it maximizes signal-to-noise ratio for low power budgets. However, depth completion is required to produce dense depth maps for 3D perception. We address this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xiaowen Jiang , Valerio Cambareri , Gianluca Agresti , Cynthia Ifeyinwa Ugwu , Adriano Simonetto , Fabien Cardinaux , Pietro Zanuttigh

Time of flight cameras may emerge as the 3-D sensor of choice. Today, time of flight sensors use phase-based sampling, where the phase delay between emitted and received, high-frequency signals encodes distance. In this paper, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Achuta Kadambi , Vage Taamazyan , Suren Jayasuriya , Ramesh Raskar

The increasing demand for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications highlights the need for efficient depth information processing. Depth maps, essential for rendering realistic scenes and supporting advanced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Marcos V. Conde , Florin-Alexandru Vasluianu , Jinhui Xiong , Wei Ye , Rakesh Ranjan , Radu Timofte

Neural networks can represent and accurately reconstruct radiance fields for static 3D scenes (e.g., NeRF). Several works extend these to dynamic scenes captured with monocular video, with promising performance. However, the monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Benjamin Attal , Eliot Laidlaw , Aaron Gokaslan , Changil Kim , Christian Richardt , James Tompkin , Matthew O'Toole

Robust segmentation of hair from portrait images remains challenging: hair does not conform to a uniform shape, style or even color; dark hair in particular lacks features. We present a novel computational imaging solution that tackles the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuanxi Ma , Cen Wang , Shiying Li , Jingyi Yu