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Human ability to visualize an image is usually hindered by optical scattering. Recent extensive studies have promoted imaging technique through turbid materials to a reality where color image can be restored behind scattering media in real…

Conventional approaches for 3D imaging in or through scattering media are usually limited to 2D reconstruction of objects at some discontinuous locations, although the time-consuming iteration, guide-star, or complex system are implemented.…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-26 Aiping Zhai , Yuancheng Li , Wenjing Zhao , Dong Wang

This paper presents a probabilistic approach for online dense reconstruction using a single monocular camera moving through the environment. Compared to spatial stereo, depth estimation from motion stereo is challenging due to insufficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yonggen Ling , Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

Three-dimensional (3D) high-resolution imaging is essential in microscopy, yet light scattering poses significant challenges in achieving it. Here, we present an approach to holographic imaging of spatially incoherent objects through…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-04 YoonSeok Baek , Hilton B. de Aguiar , Sylvain Gigan

The segmentation of video sequences into foreground and background regions is a low-level process commonly used in video content analysis and smart surveillance applications. Using a multispectral camera setup can improve this process by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Pierre-Luc St-Charles , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Robert Bergevin

Spectral imaging enables the analysis of optical material properties that are invisible to the human eye. Different spectral capturing setups, e.g., based on filter-wheel, push-broom, line-scanning, or mosaic cameras, have been introduced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Eric L. Wisotzky , Jost Triller , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Stereo images have been captured primarily for 3D reconstruction in the past. However, the depth information acquired from stereo can also be used along with saliency to highlight certain objects in a scene. This approach can be used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Subhayan Mukherjee , Irene Cheng , Anup Basu

2D cameras are often used in interactive systems. Other systems like gaming consoles provide more powerful 3D cameras for short range depth sensing. Overall, these cameras are not reliable in large, complex environments. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mohamed Benkedadra , Matei Mancas , Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi

In stereo matching, CNNs have traditionally served as the predominant architectures. Although Transformer-based stereo models have been studied recently, their performance still lags behind CNN-based stereo models due to the inherent data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jihye Ahn , Hyesong Choi , Soomin Kim , Dongbo Min

We present a physically intuitive matrix approach for wave imaging and characterization in scattering media. The experimental proof-of-concept is performed with ultrasonic waves, but this approach can be applied to any field of wave physics…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 William Lambert , Laura A. Cobus , Mathieu Couade , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

Learning to understand dynamic 3D scenes from imagery is crucial for applications ranging from robotics to scene reconstruction. Yet, unlike other problems where large-scale supervised training has enabled rapid progress, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Linyi Jin , Richard Tucker , Zhengqi Li , David Fouhey , Noah Snavely , Aleksander Holynski

In recent years, the underwater image formation model has found extensive use in the generation of synthetic underwater data. Although many approaches focus on scenes primarily affected by discoloration, they often overlook the model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Vasiliki Ismiroglou , Malte Pedersen , Stefan H. Bengtson , Andreas Aakerberg , Thomas B. Moeslund

In this paper we introduce a novel platform for dense 3D modelling. This platform is an active image acquisition setup assisted with a set of light sources and a distance sensor. The hardware setup is designed for being mounted on a mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Jonas Schuler , Reza Sabzevari , Davide Scaramuzza

Imaging through scattering and random media is an outstanding problem that to date has been tackled by either measuring the medium transmission matrix or exploiting linear correlations in the transmitted speckle patterns. However,…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-07 Ilya Starshynov , Alex Turpin , Philip Binner , Daniele Faccio

This paper presents a novel method for the reconstruction of 3D edges in multi-view stereo scenarios. Previous research in the field typically relied on video sequences and limited the reconstruction process to either straight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Andrea Bignoli , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

We consider the problem of reconstructing a dynamic scene observed from a stereo camera. Most existing methods for depth from stereo treat different stereo frames independently, leading to temporally inconsistent depth predictions. Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Nikita Karaev , Ignacio Rocco , Benjamin Graham , Natalia Neverova , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

An approach reported recently by Alexandrov et al. on optical scatter imaging, termed digital Fourier microscopy (DFM), represents an adaptation of digital Fourier holography to selective imaging of biological matter. Holographic mode of…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Y. T. Seet , P. Blazkiewicz , P. Meredith , A. V. Zvyagin

Imaging through opaque, highly scattering walls is a long sought after capability with potential applications in a variety of fields. The use of wavefront shaping to compensate for scattering has brought a renewed interest as a potential…

We propose Gated Stereo, a high-resolution and long-range depth estimation technique that operates on active gated stereo images. Using active and high dynamic range passive captures, Gated Stereo exploits multi-view cues alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Stefanie Walz , Mario Bijelic , Andrea Ramazzina , Amanpreet Walia , Fahim Mannan , Felix Heide

In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion-based approach to generate stereo images given a text prompt. Since stereo image datasets with large baselines are scarce, training a diffusion model from scratch is not feasible. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aakash Garg , Libing Zeng , Andrii Tsarov , Nima Khademi Kalantari