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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…

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

Sensing in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is a well-known issue that limits the effective range of radar-like sensors. Existing approaches for NLOS sensing consider the usage of either metallic mirrors, that only work under specular reflection,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Davide Tornielli Bellini , Dario Tagliaferri , Marouan Mizmizi , Stefano Tebaldini , Umberto Spagnolini

Neuromorphic or event cameras, inspired by biological vision systems, capture changes in illumination with high temporal resolution and efficiency, producing streams of events rather than traditional images. In this paper, we explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Abbaas Alif Mohamed Nishar , Alireza Marefat , Ashwin Ashok

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

We develop a scannerless non-line-of-sight three dimensional imaging system based on a commercial 32x32 SPAD camera combined with a 70 ps pulsed laser. In our experiment, 1024 time histograms can be achieved synchronously in 3s with an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Chenfei Jin , Meng Tang , Legeng Jia , Xiaorui Tian , Jie Yang , Kai Qiao , Siqi Zhang

The acquisition of objects outside the Line-of-Sight of cameras is a very intriguing but also extremely challenging research topic. Recent works showed the feasibility of this idea exploiting transient imaging data produced by custom direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Matteo Caligiuri , Adriano Simonetto , Pietro Zanuttigh

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

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

Traditional imaging systems, such as the eye or cameras, image scenes that lie in the direct line-of-sight (LoS). Most objects are opaque in the optical and infrared regimes and can limit dramatically the field of view (FoV). Current…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-11 Yiran Cui , Georgios C. Trichopoulos

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

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

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

Consumer LiDARs in mobile devices and robots typically output a single depth value per pixel. Yet internally, they record full time-resolved histograms containing direct and multi-bounce light returns; these multi-bounce returns encode rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nikhil Behari , Diego Rivero , Luke Apostolides , Suman Ghosh , Paul Pu Liang , Ramesh Raskar

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging has recently attracted a lot of interest from the scientific community. The goal of this paper is to provide the basis for a comprehensive mathematical framework for NLOS imaging that is directly derived…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-03 Syed Azer Reza , Marco La Manna , Andreas Velten

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…

Reconstructing object geometry from radio frequency (RF) signals is fundamentally challenging due to the lensless imaging nature of RF sensing, which leads to low spatial resolution and high noise. Unlike light signals, RF signals can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiachen Lu , Hailan Shanbhag , Haitham Al Hassanieh

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

This work addresses the problem of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted target sensing in a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenario, where an IRS is employed to facilitate the radar/access point (AP) to sense the targets when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Jilin Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Lei Huang

The non-line-of-sight imaging technique aims to reconstruct targets from multiply reflected light. For most existing methods, dense points on the relay surface are raster scanned to obtain high-quality reconstructions, which requires a long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Xintong Liu , Jianyu Wang , Leping Xiao , Xing Fu , Lingyun Qiu , Zuoqiang Shi