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A time-of-flight (ToF) imaging system is proposed and its working principle demonstrated. To realize this system, a new device, a free-space optical mixer, is designed and fabricated. A scene is illuminated (flashed) with a megahertz level…

Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors provide an imaging modality fueling diverse applications, including LiDAR in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. Conventional ToF imaging methods estimate the depth by sending pulses of light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

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

Time-of-flight (ToF) cameras calculate depth maps by reconstructing phase shifts of amplitude-modulated signals. For broad illumination or transparent objects, reflections from multiple scene points can illuminate a given pixel, giving rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Ayush Bhandari , Achuta Kadambi , Refael Whyte , Christopher Barsi , Micha Feigin , Adrian Dorrington , Ramesh Raskar

Integrating an RGB camera into a ToF imaging system has become a significant technique for perceiving the real world. The RGB guided ToF imaging system is crucial to several applications, including face anti-spoofing, saliency detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Xin Qiao , Matteo Poggi , Pengchao Deng , Hao Wei , Chenyang Ge , Stefano Mattoccia

We propose a novel approach to recovering the translucent objects from a single time-of-flight (ToF) depth camera using deep residual networks. When recording the translucent objects using the ToF depth camera, their depth values are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Seongjong Song , Hyunjung Shim

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are becoming popular in a wide span of areas ranging from consumer-grade electronic devices to safety-critical industrial robots. This is mainly due to their high frame rate, relative good precision and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Marian-Leontin Pop , Levente Tamas

Time-of-flight (ToF) imaging has become a widespread technique for depth estimation, allowing affordable off-the-shelf cameras to provide depth maps in real time. However, multipath interference (MPI) resulting from indirect illumination…

Light-weight time-of-flight (ToF) depth sensors are small, cheap, low-energy and have been massively deployed on mobile devices for the purposes like autofocus, obstacle detection, etc. However, due to their specific measurements (depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yijin Li , Xinyang Liu , Wenqi Dong , Han Zhou , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Yinda Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

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

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

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

Indirect time-of-flight (iToF) imaging allows us to capture dense depth information at a low cost. However, iToF imaging often suffers from multipath interference (MPI) artifacts in the presence of scattering media, resulting in severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Daniel S. Jeon , Andreas Meuleman , Seung-Hwan Baek , Min H. Kim

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

Range images captured by Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are corrupted with multipath distortions due to interaction between modulated light signals and scenes. The interaction is often complicated, which makes a model-based solution elusive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Kilho Son , Ming-Yu Liu , Yuichi Taguchi

An indirect Pulse-based Time-of-Flight camera can be modelled as a linear sensing system in which the target's depth is recovered from few measurements through a sensing matrix formed by a set of demodulation functions. Each demodulation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Alvaro Lopez Paredes , Miguel Heredia Conde

Time of Flight (ToF) is a prevalent depth sensing technology in the fields of robotics, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing. Yet, ToF sensing faces challenges from complex ambient conditions making an inverse modelling from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Christopher Hahne , Michel Hayoz , Raphael Sznitman

Depth map enhancement using paired high-resolution RGB images offers a cost-effective solution for improving low-resolution depth data from lightweight ToF sensors. Nevertheless, naively adopting a depth estimation pipeline to fuse the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Laiyan Ding , Hualie Jiang , Jiwei Chen , Rui Huang

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