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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

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

Passive non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging has witnessed rapid development in recent years, due to its ability to image objects that are out of sight. The light transport condition plays an important role in this task since changing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jiarui Zhang , Ruixu Geng , Xiaolong Du , Yan Chen , Houqiang Li , Yang Hu

Active non-line-of-sight imaging systems are of growing interest for diverse applications. The most commonly proposed approaches to date rely on exploiting time-resolved measurements, i.e., measuring the time it takes for short light pulses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-20 Christos Thrampoulidis , Gal Shulkind , Feihu Xu , William T. Freeman , Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Antonio Torralba , Franco N. C. Wong , Gregory W. Wornell

This paper aims to facilitate more practical NLOS imaging by reducing the number of samplings and scan areas. To this end, we introduce a phasor-based enhancement network that is capable of predicting clean and full measurements from noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 In Cho , Hyunbo Shim , Seon Joo Kim

High quality and high speed videography using Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging benefit autonomous navigation, collision prevention, and post-disaster search and rescue tasks. Current solutions have to balance between the frame rate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ruiqian Li , Siyuan Shen , Suan Xia , Ziheng Wang , Xingyue Peng , Chengxuan Song , Yingsheng Zhu , Tao Wu , Shiying Li , Jingyi Yu

Non-line-of-sight imaging has attracted more attentions for its wide applications.Even though ultrasensitive cameras or detectors with high time-resolution are available, current back-projection methods are still powerless to acquire a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-15 Chenfei Jin , Jiaheng Xie , Siqi Zhang , Zijing Zhang , Yuan Zhao

The recent years have given rise to a large number of techniques for "looking around corners", i.e., for reconstructing occluded objects from time-resolved measurements of indirect light reflections off a wall. While the direct view of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Jonathan Klein , Martin Laurenzis , Matthias B. Hullin , Julian Iseringhausen

LiDARs are being increasingly deployed for consumer imaging in handheld, wearable, and robotic applications. These sensors can capture the time-of-flight of light at picosecond resolution, which in principle, enables them to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Siddharth Somasundaram , Aaron Young , Akshat Dave , Adithya Pediredla , Ramesh Raskar

Normal reconstruction is crucial in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, as it provides key geometric and lighting information about hidden objects, which significantly improves reconstruction accuracy and scene understanding. However, jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xueying Liu , Lianfang Wang , Jun Liu , Yong Wang , Yuping Duan

The observation of objects located in inaccessible regions is a recurring challenge in a wide variety of important applications. Recent work has shown that indirect diffuse light reflections can be used to reconstruct objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Jonathan Klein , Christoph Peters , Jaime Martín , Martin Laurenzis , Matthias B. Hullin

Active imaging systems sample the Transient Light Transport Matrix (TLTM) for a scene by sequentially illuminating various positions in this scene using a controllable light source, and then measuring the resulting spatiotemporal light…

The recent years have seen a surge of interest in methods for imaging beyond the direct line of sight. The most prominent techniques rely on time-resolved optical impulse responses, obtained by illuminating a diffuse wall with an ultrashort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Javier Grau Chopite , Matthias B. Hullin , Michael Wand , Julian Iseringhausen

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

Time of flight based Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging approaches require precise calibration of illumination and detector positions on the visible scene to produce reasonable results. If this calibration error is sufficiently high,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Subhash Chandra Sadhu , Abhishek Singh , Tomohiro Maeda , Tristan Swedish , Ryan Kim , Lagnojita Sinha , Ramesh Raskar

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

Efficient exploration and mapping in unknown indoor environments is a fundamental challenge, with high stakes in time-critical settings. In current systems, robot perception remains confined to line-of-sight; occluded regions remain unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kush Garg , Akshat Dave

The ability to know what is hidden around a corner or behind a wall provides a crucial advantage when physically going around the obstacle is impossible or dangerous. Previous solutions to this challenge were constrained e.g. by their…

Image data captured outdoors often exhibit unbounded scenes and unconstrained, varying lighting conditions, making it challenging to decompose them into geometry, reflectance, and illumination. Recent works have focused on achieving this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Lianjun Liao , Chunhui Zhang , Tong Wu , Henglei Lv , Bailin Deng , Lin Gao

The resolution of optical imaging devices is ultimately limited by the diffraction of light. To circumvent this limit, modern super-resolution microscopy techniques employ active interaction with the object by exploiting its optical…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 A. A. Pushkina , G. Maltese , J. I. Costa-Filho , P. Patel , A. I. Lvovsky