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We consider the problem of few-viewpoint 3D surface reconstruction using raw measurements from a lidar system. Lidar captures 3D scene geometry by emitting pulses of light to a target and recording the speed-of-light time delay of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Weihan Luo , Anagh Malik , David B. Lindell

We demonstrate a compressed sensing, photon counting lidar system based on the single-pixel camera. Our technique recovers both depth and intensity maps from a single under-sampled set of incoherent, linear projections of a scene of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gregory A. Howland , Daniel J. Lum , Matthew R. Ware , John C. Howell

Conventional LIDAR systems require hundreds or thousands of photon detections to form accurate depth and reflectivity images. Recent photon-efficient computational imaging methods are remarkably effective with only 1.0 to 3.0 detected…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-13 Joshua Rapp , Vivek K Goyal

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

Single-photon laser ranging has widespread applications in remote sensing and target recognition. However, highly-sensitive light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has long been restricted in visible or near-infrared bands. An appealing quest…

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for fast, online 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes using times of arrival of photons recorded by single-photon detector arrays. One of the main challenges in 3D imaging using single-photon lidar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Quentin Legros , Julian Tachella , Rachael Tobin , Aongus McCarthy , Sylvain Meignen , Gerald S. Buller , Yoann Altmann , Stephen McLaughlin , Michael E. Davies

3D imaging is increasingly impacting areas such as space, defense, automation, medical and automotive industries. The most well-known optical 3D imaging systems are LIDAR systems that rely on Time of Flight (ToF) measurement. The depth…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-21 Koray Ürkmen , Emre Yüce

3D Lidar imaging can be a challenging modality when using multiple wavelengths, or when imaging in high noise environments (e.g., imaging through obscurants). This paper presents a hierarchical Bayesian algorithm for the robust…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Abderrahim Halimi , Aurora Maccarone , Robert Lamb , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen McLaughlin

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

Using a laser-based ranging method for precise environmental 3D sensing, LiDAR has numerous applications in science and industry. However, conventional LiDAR face challenges in simultaneously achieving high ranging precision and fast…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-10 Lizong Dong , Qinggai Mi , Siyu Zhou , Yuetang Yang , Yuanzu Wang , Guanhao Wu

Deploying 3D single-photon Lidar imaging in real world applications faces multiple challenges including imaging in high noise environments. Several algorithms have been proposed to address these issues based on statistical or learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Jakeoung Koo , Abderrahim Halimi , Stephen McLaughlin

3D scene reconstruction from a single measurement is challenging, especially in the presence of occluded regions and specular materials, such as mirrors. We address these challenges by leveraging single-photon lidars. These lidars estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tzofi Klinghoffer , Siddharth Somasundaram , Xiaoyu Xiang , Yuchen Fan , Christian Richardt , Akshat Dave , Ramesh Raskar , Rakesh Ranjan

Deploying 3D single-photon Lidar imaging in real world applications faces several challenges due to imaging in high noise environments and with sensors having limited resolution. This paper presents a deep learning algorithm based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Abderrahim Halimi , Jakeoung Koo , Stephen McLaughlin

We present a method for reconstructing 3D shape of arbitrary Lambertian objects based on measurements by miniature, energy-efficient, low-cost single-photon cameras. These cameras, operating as time resolved image sensors, illuminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Fangzhou Mu , Carter Sifferman , Sacha Jungerman , Yiquan Li , Mark Han , Michael Gleicher , Mohit Gupta , Yin Li

The single photoelectron performance characteristics of a Large Area Picosecond PhotoDetector (LAPPD) were studied using a picosecond optical laser source. We verify that the LAPPD is capable of achieving transit time spreads of less than…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-24 Robert Foster , Andrew Scarff , Matthew Malek

Deploying advanced imaging solutions to robotic and autonomous systems by mimicking human vision requires simultaneous acquisition of multiple fields of views, named the peripheral and fovea regions. Low-resolution peripheral field provides…

Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) captures depth and intensity information of a 3D scene. Reconstructing a scene from observed photons is a challenging task due to spurious detections associated with background illumination…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Julián Tachella , Michael P. Sheehan , Mike E. Davies

We present an efficient, elastic 3D LiDAR reconstruction framework which can reconstruct up to maximum LiDAR ranges (60 m) at multiple frames per second, thus enabling robot exploration in large-scale environments. Our approach only…

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is widely used in autonomous systems and industrial metrology; however, the simultaneous acquisition of three-dimensional (3D) structure and broadband spectral information remains challenging, as…

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