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Long-range active imaging has widespread applications in remote sensing and target recognition. Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) has been shown to have high sensitivity and temporal resolution. On the application front,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Zheng-Ping Li , Jun-Tian Ye , Xin Huang , Peng-Yu Jiang , Yuan Cao , Yu Hong , Chao Yu , Jun Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR), offering single-photon sensitivity and picosecond time resolution, has been widely adopted for active imaging applications. Long-range active imaging is a great challenge, because the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-31 Zheng-Ping Li , Xin Huang , Peng-Yu Jiang , Yu Hong , Chao Yu , Yuan Cao , Jun Zhang , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

The ability to measure and record high-resolution depth images at long stand-off distances is important for a wide range of applications, including connected and automotive vehicles, defense and security, and agriculture and mining. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-13 Susan Chan , Abderrahim Halimi , Feng Zhu , Istvan Gyongy , Robert K. Henderson , Richard Bowman , Steve McLaughlin , Gerald S. Buller , Jonathan Leach

Single-photon lidar has emerged as a prime candidate technology for depth imaging through challenging environments. Until now, a major limitation has been the significant amount of time required for the analysis of the recorded data. Here…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Nicolas Mellado , Aongus McCarthy , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Stephen McLaughlin

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a key technology for depth imaging through complex environments. Despite recent advances, an open challenge is the ability to isolate the LiDAR signal from other spurious sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Jiuxuan Zhao , Ashley Lyons , Arin Can Ulku , Hugo Defienne , Daniele Faccio , Edoardo Charbon

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) single-photon devices capture range and intensity information from a 3D scene. This modality enables long range 3D reconstruction with high range precision and low laser power. A multispectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Miguel Márquez , Henry Arguello-Fuentes , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Stephen McLaughlin

Photon-efficient imaging with the single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) captures the three-dimensional (3D) structure of a scene by only a few detected signal photons per pixel. However, the existing computational methods for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Yiwei Chen , Gongxin Yao , Yong Liu , Hongye Su , Xiaomin Hu , Yu Pan

LiDAR (laser based radar) systems are a major part of many new real-world interactive systems, one of the most notable being autonomous cars. The current market LiDAR systems are limited by detector sensitivity: when output power is at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Yoni Sher , Lior Cohen , Daniel Istrati , Hagai S. Eisenberg

High-resolution three-dimensional imaging under photon-starved conditions remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate a high-resolution long-range 3D single-photon imaging system based on a digital micromirror device (DMD) and a compact 64…

3D single-photon LiDAR imaging has an important role in many applications. However, full deployment of this modality will require the analysis of low signal to noise ratio target returns and a very high volume of data. This is particularly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Mohamed Amir Alaa Belmekki , Jonathan Leach , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen Mclaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Mohamed Amir Alaa Belmekki , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen McLaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

For active optical imaging, the use of single-photon detectors can greatly improve the detection sensitivity of the system. However, the traditional maximum-likelihood based imaging method needs a long acquisition time to capture clear…

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Ximing Ren , Aongus McCarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Steve McLaughlin

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

Benefiting from its single-photon sensitivity, single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array has been widely applied in various fields such as fluorescence lifetime imaging and quantum computing. However, large-scale high-fidelity…

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) have emerged as a crucial tool for high-resolution 3D imaging, particularly in autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, and augmented reality. However, the increasing demand for faster acquisition speed and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-28 Yixiu Shen , Zi Heng Lim , Guangya Zhou

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been widely applied to 3D imaging in challenging scenarios. However, limited signal photon counts and high noises in the collected data have posed great challenges for predicting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Gongxin Yao , Yiwei Chen , Yong Liu , Xiaomin Hu , Yu Pan

Accurate 3D imaging is essential for machines to map and interact with the physical world. While numerous 3D imaging technologies exist, each addressing niche applications with varying degrees of success, none have achieved the breadth of…

This paper introduces PanoRadar, a novel RF imaging system that brings RF resolution close to that of LiDAR, while providing resilience against conditions challenging for optical signals. Our LiDAR-comparable 3D imaging results enable, for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Haowen Lai , Gaoxiang Luo , Yifei Liu , Mingmin Zhao

Time-of-flight three dimensional imaging is an important tool for many applications, such as object recognition and remote sensing. Unlike conventional imaging approach using pixelated detector array, single-pixel imaging based on projected…

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