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3D single-photon LiDAR imaging plays an important role in numerous applications. However, long acquisition times and significant data volumes present a challenge to LiDAR imaging. This paper proposes a task-optimized adaptive sampling…

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Depth imaging is vital for many emerging technologies with applications in augmented reality, robotics, gesture detection, and facial recognition. These applications, however, demand compact and low-power systems beyond the capabilities of…

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Single-photon detectors based on avalanche photodiodes (SPAD) are key elements of many modern highly sensitive optical systems. One of the bottlenecks of such detectors is a afterpulsing effect which limits a detection rate and requires an…

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A highly sensitive photodetection system with a detection limit of 1 photon/s was developed. This system uses a commercially available 200-mm-diameter silicon avalanche photodiode (APD) and an in-house-developed ultralow-noise readout…

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Single-photon detectors (SPDs) are the most sensitive instruments for light detection. In the near-infrared range, SPDs based on III-V compound semiconductor avalanche photodiodes have been extensively used during the past two decades for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jun Zhang , Mark A. Itzler , Hugo Zbinden , Jian-Wei Pan

Traditional paradigms for imaging rely on the use of a spatial structure, either in the detector (pixels arrays) or in the illumination (patterned light). Removal of the spatial structure in the detector or illumination, i.e., imaging with…

Optical imaging systems are widely used in the drone industry (optical navigation, terrain scanners), industry (distance measurement, 3D visualization), security (optical scanners and motion sensors), robotics (motion sensors, terrain or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-10 K. Khuseynzada , A. Sadigov , J. Naghiyev , F. Ahmadov , G. Ahmadov

Three-dimensional imaging plays an important role in imaging applications where it is necessary to record depth. The number of applications that use depth imaging is increasing rapidly, and examples include self-driving autonomous vehicles…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Alice Ruget , Stephen McLaughlin , Robert K. Henderson , Istvan Gyongy , Abderrahim Halimi , Jonathan Leach

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) data can be used to capture the depth and intensity profile of a 3D scene. This modality relies on constructing, for each pixel, a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

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Spike cameras, as an innovative neuromorphic camera that captures scenes with the 0-1 bit stream at 40 kHz, are increasingly employed for the 3D reconstruction task via Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Previous…

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Silicon single-photon detectors (SPDs) are the key devices for detecting single photons in the visible wavelength range. Here we present high detection efficiency silicon SPDs dedicated to the generation of multiphoton entanglement based on…

The reliable fusion of depth maps from multiple viewpoints has become an important problem in many 3D reconstruction pipelines. In this work, we investigate its impact on robotic bin-picking tasks such as 6D object pose estimation. The…

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We present a practical and easy-to-implement method for high-speed near infrared single-photon detection based on InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs), combining aspects of both sine gating and self-differencing…

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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…

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Imaging through thick scattering media presents significant challenges, particularly for three-dimensional (3D) applications. This manuscript demonstrates a novel scheme for single-image-enabled 3D imaging through such media, treating the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-10 Long Pan , Yunan Wang , Yijie Lou , Xiaohua Feng

In this paper, we propose an efficient method for robust 3D self-portraits using a single RGBD camera. Benefiting from the proposed PIFusion and lightweight bundle adjustment algorithm, our method can generate detailed 3D self-portraits in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Zhe Li , Tao Yu , Chuanyu Pan , Zerong Zheng , Yebin Liu

Recently three-dimensional (3D) imaging achieves tremendous success in consumer and industrial manufacturing. However, current 3D imaging methods rarely observe dynamical events happening in a short time interval due to the imaging speed…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-15 Jiajie Teng , Qiang Guo , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

Efficient simulation of photon registrations in single-photon LiDAR (SPL) is essential for applications such as depth estimation under high-flux conditions, where hardware dead time significantly distorts photon measurements. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Weijian Zhang , Hashan K. Weerasooriya , Stanley Chan

Traditional CMOS sensors suffer from restricted dynamic range and sub optimal performance under extreme lighting conditions. They are affected by electronic noise in low light conditions and pixel saturation while capturing high…

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