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Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging aims at reconstructing targets obscured from the direct line of sight. Existing NLOS imaging algorithms require dense measurements at rectangular grid points in a large area of the relay surface, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Xintong Liu , Jianyu Wang , Leping Xiao , Zuoqiang Shi , Xing Fu , Lingyun Qiu

We propose an approach to far-field optical imaging beyond the diffraction limit. The proposed system allows image magnification, is robust with respect to material losses and can be fabricated by adapting existing metamaterial technologies…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zubin Jacob , Leonid V. Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging aims at recovering the 3D geometry of objects that are hidden from the direct line of sight. In the past, this method has suffered from the weak available multibounce signal limiting scene size, capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ji Hyun Nam , Eric Brandt , Sebastian Bauer , Xiaochun Liu , Eftychios Sifakis , Andreas Velten

Optical beams are solutions to the paraxial wave equation (PWE). In this work we report a new, to our knowledge, optical beam. We solve the PWE by using the angular spectrum of plane waves theory in circular cylindrical coordinates. This…

Time-of-Flight non-line-of-sight (ToF NLOS) imaging techniques provide state-of-the-art reconstructions of scenes hidden around corners by inverting the optical path of indirect photons scattered by visible surfaces and measured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Julio Marco , Adrian Jarabo , Ji Hyun Nam , Alberto Tosi , Diego Gutierrez , Andreas Velten

Passive Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging requires to reconstruct objects which cannot be seen in line without using external controllable light sources. It can be widely applied in areas like counter-terrorism, urban-Warfare,…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-02 Yunting Gui , Yuegang Fu , Xueming Xiao , Meibao Yao

Pixel lensing, gravitational microlensing of unresolved stars, is potentially much more sensitive and much more widely applicable than is generally recognized. I give explicit expressions for the pixel noise induced by a time-variable PSF,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew Gould

Diffractive/refractive optics, such as Phase Fresnel Lenses (PFL's), offer the potential to achieve excellent imaging performance in the x-ray and gamma-ray photon regimes. In principle, the angular resolution obtained with these devices…

Recent theoretical and experimental studies have shown that imaging with resolution well beyond the diffraction limit can be obtained with so-called superlenses. Images formed by such superlenses are, however, in the near field only, or a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephane Durant , Zhaowei Liu , Nicholas Fang , Xiang Zhang

We present a neural modeling framework for Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging. Previous solutions have sought to explicitly recover the 3D geometry (e.g., as point clouds) or voxel density (e.g., within a pre-defined volume) of the hidden…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Siyuan Shen , Zi Wang , Ping Liu , Zhengqing Pan , Ruiqian Li , Tian Gao , Shiying Li , Jingyi Yu

Sensing in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is one of the major challenges for integrated sensing and communication systems. Existing countermeasures for NLOS either use prior knowledge on the environment to characterize all the multiple bounces or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Davide Tornielli Bellini , Dario Tagliaferri , Pietro Grassi , Davide Scazzoli , Stefano Tebaldini , Umberto Spagnolini

Conventional imaging requires a line of sight to create accurate visual representations of a scene. In certain circumstances, however, obtaining a suitable line of sight may be impractical, dangerous, or even impossible. Non-line-of-sight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Fadlullah Raji , John Murray-Bruce

Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

This paper presents a renewed overview of photosensor oculography (PSOG), an eye-tracking technique based on the principle of using simple photosensors to measure the amount of reflected (usually infrared) light when the eye rotates.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Ioannis Rigas , Hayes Raffle , Oleg V. Komogortsev

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is conducted to infer invisible scenes from indirect light on visible objects. The neural transient field (NeTF) was proposed for representing scenes as neural radiance fields in NLOS scenes. We propose NLOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuki Fujimura , Takahiro Kushida , Takuya Funatomi , Yasuhiro Mukaigawa

A robust method and strategy for efficient full field-ofview and depth separation optical imaging through scattering media regardless of the three-dimensional (3D) optical memory effect are proposed. In this method, the problem of imaging…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-17 Wei Li , Jietao Liu , Shunfu He , Lixian Liu , Xiaopeng Shao

Digital cameras and displays utilise picture elements (pixels) that perform a single function: detecting or emitting light intensity. To exploit the full information content of electromagnetic waves, more advanced elements are required.…

The Point Spread Function (PSF) is a key figure of merit for specifying the angular resolution of optical systems and, as the demand for higher and higher angular resolution increases, the problem of surface finishing must be taken…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-04 K. Tayabaly , D. Spiga , G. Sironi , R. Canestrari , M. Lavagna , G. Pareschi

Imaging with optical resolution through and inside complex samples is a difficult challenge with important applications in many fields. The fundamental problem is that inhomogeneous samples, such as biological tissues, randomly scatter and…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Pierre Heidmann , Mathias Fink , Sylvain Gigan

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