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The frame rates of most 3D LIDAR sensors used in intelligent vehicles are substantially lower than current cameras installed in the same vehicle. This research suggests using a mono camera to virtually enhance the frame rate of LIDARs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Zoltan Rozsa , Tamas Sziranyi

Most commercially available Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)s measure the distances along a 2D section of the environment by sequentially sampling the free range along directions centered at the sensor's origin. When the sensor moves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Omar Salem , Emanuele Giacomini , Leonardo Brizi , Luca Di Giammarino , Giorgio Grisetti

We present here a pattern sensitive PowerPoint presentation scheme. The presentation is actuated by simple patterns drawn on the presentation screen by a laser pointer. A specific pattern corresponds to a particular command required to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2009-12-01 Atul Chowdhary , Vivek Agrawal , Subhajit Karmakar , Sandip Sarkar

A lidar odometry method, integrating into the computation the knowledge about the physics of the sensor, is proposed. A model of measurement error enables higher precision in estimation of the point normal covariance. Adjacent laser beams…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Dmitri Kovalenko , Mikhail Korobkin , Andrey Minin

Using a series of detector measurements taken at different locations to localize a source of radiation is a well-studied problem. The source of radiation is sometimes constrained to a single point-like source, in which case the location of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-06 M. S. Bandstra , D. Hellfeld , J. R. Vavrek , B. J. Quiter , K. Meehan , P. J. Barton , J. W. Cates , A. Moran , V. Negut , R. Pavlovsky , T. H. Y. Joshi

We present methods and results of the testing of an inexpensive home-made diffraction limited lens system, the design of which was proposed in a recent paper and which has since been used (with slight alterations) by several research…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 P Baranowski , J Zacks , G Hechenblaikner , C J Foot

We introduce a Bayesian framework for measuring spatio-temporal couplings (STCs) in ultra-intense lasers that reconceptualizes what constitutes a 'single-shot' measurement. Moving beyond traditional distinctions between single- and…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-06 J. Esslinger , N. Weisse , C. Eberle , J. Schroeder , S. Howard , P. Norreys , S. Karsch , A. Döpp

In this work, we demonstrate a discrete dispersion scan scheme using a low number of flat windows to vary the dispersion of laser pulses in discrete steps. Monte Carlo simulations indicate that the pulse duration can be retrieved accurately…

This paper evaluates the performance of algorithms suitable to process the measurements from two laser beam metrology systems, in particular with reference to the Gaia Basic Angle Monitoring device. The system and signal characteristics are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-05 Mario Gai , Alberto Riva , Deborah Busonero , Raffaella Buzzi , Federico Russo

The Dragon-II linear induction accelerator is able to provide triple-pulse electron beams with an adjustable pulse spacing at the minimum of 300 ns. As a main determinant of the image quality, the X-ray spot size is usually quoted as an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Yi Wang , Qin Li , Hengsong Ding , Jinming Cheng , Yunlong Liu , Jinshui Shi , Jianjun Deng

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

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

We present a new technique that we have defined as the z-scan confocal method to determine the absolute location and size of the focal spot in a tight focused ultrashort laser pulse. The method permits to accurately position a target in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-01 P. Castro-Marín , G. Castro-Olvera , C. Ruíz , J. Garduño-Mejía , M. Rosete-Aguilar , N. C. Bruce

We have used an inexpensive 3D printer mounting an inexpensive pre-irradiated silicon diode to measure the 2D dose distribution of a small (approximately 10mm FWHM) proton beam. z was measured with high resolution whereas x was changed on a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Ethan W. Cascio , Bernard Gottschalk

We have built a high-accuracy wavelength meter for tunable lasers using a scanning Michelson interferometer and a reference laser of known wavelength. The reference laser is a frequency stabilized diode laser locked to an atomic transition…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Ayan Banerjee , Umakant D. Rapol , Ajay Wasan , Vasant Natarajan

We describe a successful effort to produce a laser comb around 1.55 $\mu$m in the astronomical H band using a method based on a line-referenced, electro-optical-modulation frequency comb. We discuss the experimental setup, laboratory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 X. Yi , K. Vahala , S. Diddams , G. Ycas , P. Plavchan , S. Leifer , J. Sandhu , G. Vasisht , P. Chen , P. Gao , J. Gagne , E. Furlan , M. Bottom , E. Martin , M. Fitzgerald , G. Doppmann , C. Beichman

The problem of identifying the 3D pose of a known object from a given 2D image has important applications in Computer Vision ranging from robotic vision to image analysis. Our proposed method of registering a 3D model of a known object on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Srimal Jayawardena , Marcus Hutter , Nathan Brewer

In this paper, we consider the estimation of a change-point for possibly high-dimensional data in a Gaussian model, using a k-means method. We prove that, up to a logarithmic term, this change-point estimator has a minimax rate of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Aurélie Fischer , Dominique Picard

Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) has been widely used in autonomous vehicles for perception and localization. However, the cost of a high-resolution LiDAR is still prohibitively expensive, while its low-resolution counterpart is much…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Xinming Huang

We demonstrate a straight-forward technique to measure the linewidth of a grating-stabilized diode laser system---known as an external cavity diode laser (ECDL)---by beating the output of two independent ECDLs in a Michelson interferometer,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Lal Muanzuala , Harish Ravi , Karthik Sylvan , Vasant Natarajan