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State-of-the-art time-of-flight (ToF) based 3D sensors suffer from poor lateral and depth resolutions. In this work, we introduce a novel sensor concept that provides ToF-based 3D measurements of real world objects with depth precisions up…

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are sensors that can measure the depths of scene-points, by illuminating the scene with a controlled laser or LED source, and then analyzing the reflected light. In this paper, we will first describe the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Radu Horaud , Miles Hansard , Georgios Evangelidis , Clement Menier

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

Depth sensing is useful in a variety of applications that range from augmented reality to robotics. Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are appealing because they obtain dense depth measurements with minimal latency. However, for many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 James Noraky , Vivienne Sze

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 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

We have developed a novel detector, referred to as an "$\alpha$-ToF detector", for correlated measurements of atomic masses and decay properties of low-yield, short-lived radioactive isotopes using a multi-reflection time-of-flight mass…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-08 T. Niwase , M. Wada , P. Schury , H. Haba , S. Ishizawa , Y. Ito , D. Kaji , S. Kimura , H. Miyatake , K. Morimoto , K. Morita , M. Rosenbusch , H. Wollnik , T. Shanley , Y. Benari

Long-distance depth imaging holds great promise for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Direct time-of-flight (dToF) imaging offers high-precision, long-distance depth sensing, yet demands ultra-short pulse light sources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Manchao Bao , Shengjiang Fang , Tao Yue , Xuemei Hu

Timing-pick up detectors with excellent timing resolutions are essential in many modern nuclear physics experiments. Aiming to develop a Time-Of-Flight system with precision down to about 10 ps, we have made a systematic study of the timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-19 J. W. Zhao , B. H. Sun , I. Tanihata , S. Terashima , L. H. Zhu , A. Enomoto , D. Nagae , T. Nishimura , S. Omika , A. Ozawa , Y. Takeuchi , T. Yamaguchi

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

Recently, it is increasingly popular to equip mobile RGB cameras with Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors for active depth sensing. However, for off-the-shelf ToF sensors, one must tackle two problems in order to obtain high-quality depth with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Di Qiu , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Chengxi Yang

We introduce Mask-ToF, a method to reduce flying pixels (FP) in time-of-flight (ToF) depth captures. FPs are pervasive artifacts which occur around depth edges, where light paths from both an object and its background are integrated over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Ilya Chugunov , Seung-Hwan Baek , Qiang Fu , Wolfgang Heidrich , Felix Heide

In recent years, computational Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging has emerged as an exciting and a novel imaging modality that offers new and powerful interpretations of natural scenes, with applications extending to 3D, light-in-flight, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Ruiming Guo , Ayush Bhandari

In this paper, a novel amplitude-modulated continuous wave (AMCW) time-of-flight (ToF) scanning sensor based on digital-parallel demodulation is proposed and demonstrated in the aspect of distance measurement precision. Since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Sung-Hyun Lee , Wook-Hyeon Kwon , Yoon-Seop Lim , Yong-Hwa Park

Passive Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging can be enabled by optical wireless communication (OWC). The lighting infrastructure is the backbone of emerging light-based wireless communication. To this end, communication sources are used as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Faisal Ahmed , Miguel Heredia Conde , Paula López Martínez

Single-photon time-of-flight (TOF) non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables the high-resolution reconstruction of objects outside the field of view. The compactness of TOF NLOS imaging systems, entailing the miniaturization of key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-12 Jie Wu , Chao Yu , Jian-Wei Zeng , Chen Dai , Feihu Xu , Jun Zhang

We present a novel method to correct flying pixels within data captured by Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors. Flying pixel (FP) artifacts occur when signals from foreground and background objects reach the same sensor pixel, leading to a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Ekamresh Vasudevan , Shashank N. Sridhara , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega , Raghavendra Singh , Srinath Kalluri

This paper presents a novel iToF-RGB fusion framework designed to address the inherent limitations of indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) depth sensing, such as low spatial resolution, limited field-of-view (FoV), and structural distortion in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yansong Du , Yutong Deng , Yuting Zhou , Feiyu Jiao , Jian Song , Xun Guan

A novel detector based on a polycrystalline diamond sensor is here employed in an advanced Time-Of-Flight scheme for the characterization of energetic ions accelerated during laser-matter interactions. The optimization of the detector and…

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras possess compact design and high measurement precision to be applied to various robot tasks. However, their limited sensing range restricts deployment in large-scale scenarios. Depth completion has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Juncheng Chen , Tiancheng Lai , Xingpeng Wang , Bingxin Liao , Baozhe Zhang , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao
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