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Conventional imaging only records photons directly sent from the object to the detector, while non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging takes the indirect light into account. Most NLOS solutions employ a transient scanning process, followed by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Dayu Zhu , Wenshan Cai

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

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

Conventional sensor systems record information about directly visible objects, whereas occluded scene components are considered lost in the measurement process. Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) methods try to recover such hidden objects from their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Nicolas Scheiner , Florian Kraus , Fangyin Wei , Buu Phan , Fahim Mannan , Nils Appenrodt , Werner Ritter , Jürgen Dickmann , Klaus Dietmayer , Bernhard Sick , Felix Heide

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging seeks to reconstruct hidden objects by analyzing reflections from intermediary surfaces. Existing methods typically model both the measurement data and the hidden scene in three dimensions, overlooking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yijun Wei , Jianyu Wang , Leping Xiao , Zuoqiang Shi , Xing Fu , Lingyun Qiu

We consider the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging of an object using the light reflected off a diffusive wall. The wall scatters incident light such that a lens is no longer useful to form an image. Instead, we exploit the 4D spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Andre Beckus , Alexandru Tamasan , George K. Atia

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

Non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging is an important challenge in many fields ranging from autonomous vehicles and smart cities to defense applications. Several recent works in optics and acoustics tackle the challenge of imaging targets hidden…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Yevgeny Slobodkin , Ori Katz

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables the visualization of objects hidden from direct view, with applications in surveillance, remote sensing, and light detection and ranging. Here, we introduce a NLOS imaging technique termed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Pengming Song , Qianhao Zhao , Ruihai Wang , Ninghe Liu , Yingqi Qiang , Tianbo Wang , Xincheng Zhang , Yi Zhang , Guoan Zheng

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging of objects not visible to either the camera or illumination source is a challenging task with vital applications including surveillance and robotics. Recent NLOS reconstruction advances have been achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Sreenithy Chandran , Suren Jayasuriya

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

Computational approach to imaging around the corner, or non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, is becoming a reality thanks to major advances in imaging hardware and reconstruction algorithms. A recent development towards practical NLOS imaging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Fangzhou Mu , Sicheng Mo , Jiayong Peng , Xiaochun Liu , Ji Hyun Nam , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Andreas Velten , Yin Li

Visual object recognition under situations in which the direct line-of-sight is blocked, such as when it is occluded around the corner, is of practical importance in a wide range of applications. With coherent illumination, the light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Xin Lei , Liangyu He , Yixuan Tan , Ken Xingze Wang , Xinggang Wang , Yihan Du , Shanhui Fan , Zongfu Yu

The study of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is growing due to its many potential applications, including rescue operations and pedestrian detection by self-driving cars. However, implementing NLOS imaging on a moving camera remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shenbagaraj Kannapiran , Sreenithy Chandran , Suren Jayasuriya , Spring Berman

This paper presents a method of passive non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging using polarization cues. A key observation is that the oblique light has a different polarimetric signal. It turns out this effect is due to the polarization axis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-02 Kenichiro Tanaka , Yasuhiro Mukaigawa , Achuta Kadambi

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging with intelligent sensors emerges as a novel technique in imaging and sensing occluded objects around corners. With the innovation of bio-inspired neuromorphic sensors, the applications of novel sensors in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-15 Conghe Wang , Xia Wang , Yujie Fang , Changda Yan , Xin Zhang , Yifan Zuo

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

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

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…

Robust autonomous navigation in environments with limited visibility remains a critical challenge in robotics. We present a novel approach that leverages Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) sensing using single-photon LiDAR to improve visibility and…