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Capturing depth and reflectivity images at low light levels from active illumination of a scene has wide-ranging applications. Conventionally, even with single-photon detectors, hundreds of photon detections are needed at each pixel to…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-12 Dongeek Shin , Ahmed Kirmani , Vivek K Goyal , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

We analyze multi-bounce propagation of light in an unknown hidden volume and demonstrate that the reflected light contains sufficient information to recover the 3D structure of the hidden scene. We formulate the forward and inverse theory…

Active non-line-of-sight imaging systems are of growing interest for diverse applications. The most commonly proposed approaches to date rely on exploiting time-resolved measurements, i.e., measuring the time it takes for short light pulses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-20 Christos Thrampoulidis , Gal Shulkind , Feihu Xu , William T. Freeman , Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Antonio Torralba , Franco N. C. Wong , Gregory W. Wornell

We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions or raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera. Our method leverages the motion differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Yu-Lun Liu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yung-Yu Chuang , Jia-Bin Huang

Being able to see beyond the direct line of sight is an intriguing prospective and could benefit a wide variety of important applications. Recent work has demonstrated that time-resolved measurements of indirect diffuse light contain…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Julian Iseringhausen , Matthias B. Hullin

Unwanted camera occlusions, such as debris, dust, rain-drops, and snow, can severely degrade the performance of computer-vision systems. Dynamic occlusions are particularly challenging because of the continuously changing pattern. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Rong Zou , Manasi Muglikar , Nico Messikommer , Davide Scaramuzza

We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions, or adherent raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera. Our method leverages motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yu-Lun Liu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yung-Yu Chuang , Jia-Bin Huang

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

Computational ghost imaging retrieves the spatial information of a scene using a single pixel detector. By projecting a series of known random patterns and measuring the back reflected intensity for each one, it is possible to reconstruct a…

Event-based structured light systems have recently been introduced as an exciting alternative to conventional frame-based triangulation systems for the 3D measurements of diffuse surfaces. Important benefits include the fast capture speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Aniket Dashpute , Jiazhang Wang , James Taylor , Oliver Cossairt , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Florian Willomitzer

Recovering the radiometric properties of a scene (i.e., the reflectance, illumination, and geometry) is a long-sought ability of computer vision that can provide invaluable information for a wide range of applications. Deciphering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Stephen Lombardi , Ko Nishino

Active 3D imaging systems have broad applications across disciplines, including biological imaging, remote sensing and robotics. Applications in these domains require fast acquisition times, high timing resolution, and high detection…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Felix Heide , Steven Diamond , David B. Lindell , Gordon Wetzstein

Vehicles, search and rescue personnel, and endoscopes use flash lights to locate, identify, and view objects in their surroundings. Here we show the first steps of how all these tasks can be done around corners with consumer cameras. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Matthew Tancik , Guy Satat , Ramesh Raskar

Generative reconstruction methods compute the 3D configuration (such as pose and/or geometry) of a shape by optimizing the overlap of the projected 3D shape model with images. Proper handling of occlusions is a big challenge, since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Helge Rhodin , Nadia Robertini , Christian Richardt , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

Many optical measurement techniques, such as light scattering from wavelength-scale particles or detecting motion from a surface with an optical lever, encode information in a complex radiation pattern. Extracting all available information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Youssef Tawfik , Shan Hao , Thomas P. Purdy

Passive non-line-of-sight imaging methods are often faster and stealthier than their active counterparts, requiring less complex and costly equipment. However, many of these methods exploit motion of an occluder or the hidden scene, or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Sheila W. Seidel , John Murray-Bruce , Yanting Ma , Christopher Yu , William T. Freeman , Vivek K Goyal

The presence of occlusions has provided substantial challenges to typically-powerful object recognition algorithms. Additional sources of information can be extremely valuable to reduce errors caused by occlusions. Scene context is known to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Courtney M. King , Daniel D. Leeds , Damian Lyons , George Kalaitzis

3D scene reconstruction from a single measurement is challenging, especially in the presence of occluded regions and specular materials, such as mirrors. We address these challenges by leveraging single-photon lidars. These lidars estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tzofi Klinghoffer , Siddharth Somasundaram , Xiaoyu Xiang , Yuchen Fan , Christian Richardt , Akshat Dave , Ramesh Raskar , Rakesh Ranjan

The observation of objects located in inaccessible regions is a recurring challenge in a wide variety of important applications. Recent work has shown that indirect diffuse light reflections can be used to reconstruct objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Jonathan Klein , Christoph Peters , Jaime Martín , Martin Laurenzis , Matthias B. Hullin

Learning neural radiance fields of a scene has recently allowed realistic novel view synthesis of the scene, but they are limited to synthesize images under the original fixed lighting condition. Therefore, they are not flexible for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quan Zheng , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel
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