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A remote-sensing system that can determine the position of hidden objects has applications in many critical real-life scenarios, such as search and rescue missions and safe autonomous driving. Previous work has shown the ability to range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Susan Chan , Ryan E. Warburton , Genevieve Gariepy , Jonathan Leach , Daniele Faccio

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, recovering the hidden volume from indirect reflections, has attracted increasing attention due to its potential applications. Despite promising results, existing NLOS reconstruction approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shida Sun , Yue Li , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong

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

There has been an increasing interest in deploying non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging systems for recovering objects behind an obstacle. Existing solutions generally pre-calibrate the system before scanning the hidden objects. Onsite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Zhengqing Pan , Ruiqian Li , Tian Gao , Zi Wang , Ping Liu , Siyuan Shen , Tao Wu , Jingyi Yu , Shiying Li

We present a novel structured light technique that uses Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) arrays to enable 3D scanning at high-frame rates and low-light levels. This technique, called "Single-Photon Structured Light", works by sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Varun Sundar , Sizhuo Ma , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Mohit Gupta

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging methods are capable of reconstructing complex scenes that are not visible to an observer using indirect illumination. However, they assume only third-bounce illumination, so they are currently limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Diego Royo , Talha Sultan , Adolfo Muñoz , Khadijeh Masumnia-Bisheh , Eric Brandt , Diego Gutierrez , Andreas Velten , Julio Marco

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

Seeing around corners, also known as non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is a computational method to resolve or recover objects hidden around corners. Recent advances in imaging around corners have gained significant interest. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Tomohiro Maeda , Guy Satat , Tristan Swedish , Lagnojita Sinha , Ramesh Raskar

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are advanced sensors capable of detecting individual photons and recording their arrival times with picosecond resolution using time-correlated Single-Photon Counting detection techniques. They are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Alice Ruget , Lewis Wilson , Jonathan Leach , Rachael Tobin , Aongus Mccarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Steve Mclaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

Existing time-resolved non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging methods reconstruct hidden scenes by inverting the optical paths of indirect illumination measured at visible relay surfaces. These methods are prone to reconstruction artifacts due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Kiseok Choi , Inchul Kim , Dongyoung Choi , Julio Marco , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim

3D reconstruction is a fundamental problem in computer vision, and the task is especially challenging when the object to reconstruct is partially or fully occluded. We introduce a method that uses the shadows cast by an unobserved object in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruoshi Liu , Sachit Menon , Chengzhi Mao , Dennis Park , Simon Stent , Carl Vondrick

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables monitoring around corners and is promising for diverse applications. The resolution of transient NLOS imaging is limited to a centimeter scale, mainly by the temporal resolution of the detectors.…

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

Non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging is an important challenge in many fields ranging from autonomous vehicles and smart cities to defense applications. Several recent works in optics and acoustics tackle the challenge of imaging targets hidden…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Yevgeny Slobodkin , Ori Katz

3D time-of-flight (ToF) imaging is used in a variety of applications such as augmented reality (AR), computer interfaces, robotics and autonomous systems. Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are one of the enabling technologies providing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Germán Mora-Martín , Alex Turpin , Alice Ruget , Abderrahim Halimi , Robert Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

A deep learning based non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging system is developed to image an occluded object off a scattering surface. The neural net is trained using only handwritten digits, and yet exhibits capability to reconstruct patterns…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Chen Zhou , Cheng-Yu Wang , Zhiwen Liu

We develop a scannerless non-line-of-sight three dimensional imaging system based on a commercial 32x32 SPAD camera combined with a 70 ps pulsed laser. In our experiment, 1024 time histograms can be achieved synchronously in 3s with an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Chenfei Jin , Meng Tang , Legeng Jia , Xiaorui Tian , Jie Yang , Kai Qiao , Siqi Zhang

This paper introduces 3DFIRES, a novel system for scene-level 3D reconstruction from posed images. Designed to work with as few as one view, 3DFIRES reconstructs the complete geometry of unseen scenes, including hidden surfaces. With…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Linyi Jin , Nilesh Kulkarni , David Fouhey

Consumer LiDARs in mobile devices and robots typically output a single depth value per pixel. Yet internally, they record full time-resolved histograms containing direct and multi-bounce light returns; these multi-bounce returns encode rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nikhil Behari , Diego Rivero , Luke Apostolides , Suman Ghosh , Paul Pu Liang , Ramesh Raskar

The study of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is growing due to its many potential applications, including rescue operations and pedestrian detection by self-driving cars. However, implementing NLOS imaging on a moving camera remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shenbagaraj Kannapiran , Sreenithy Chandran , Suren Jayasuriya , Spring Berman