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This study presents an efficient field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of a polynomial spline function-based statistical compression algorithm designed to address the critical challenge of massive data transfer bandwidth in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Zhenya Zang , Mike Davies , Istvan Gyongy

Traditional paradigms for imaging rely on the use of a spatial structure, either in the detector (pixels arrays) or in the illumination (patterned light). Removal of the spatial structure in the detector or illumination, i.e., imaging with…

Recently, there has been increased attention towards 3D imaging using single-pixel single-photon detection (also known as temporal data) due to its potential advantages in terms of cost and power efficiency. However, to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Tingqin Lai , Xiaolin Liang , Yi Zhu , Xinyi Wu , Lianye Liao , Xuelin Yuan , Ping Su , Shihai Sun

Scene understanding under low-light conditions is a challenging problem. This is due to the small number of photons captured by the camera and the resulting low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Single-photon cameras (SPCs) are an emerging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Bhavya Goyal , Mohit Gupta

A backside-illuminated (BSI) near-infrared enhanced silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) for time-of-flight (ToF) light detection and ranging applications is presented. The detector contains a 2 $\mu$m wide multiplication region…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-04 Edward Van Sieleghem , Gauri Karve , Koen De Munck , Andrea Vinci , Celso Cavaco , Andreas Süss , Chris Van Hoof , Jiwon Lee

Camera shake during exposure is a major problem in hand-held photography, as it causes image blur that destroys details in the captured images.~In the real world, such blur is mainly caused by both the camera motion and the complex scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Liyuan Pan , Yuchao Dai , Miaomiao Liu

The rise of portable Lidar instruments, including their adoption in smartphones, opens the door to novel computational imaging techniques. Being an active sensing instrument, Lidar can provide complementary data to passive optical sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ziyao Yi , Diego Valsesia , Tiziano Bianchi , Enrico Magli

Video deblurring is a challenging task due to the spatially variant blur caused by camera shake, object motions, and depth variations, etc. Existing methods usually estimate optical flow in the blurry video to align consecutive frames or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Shangchen Zhou , Jiawei Zhang , Jinshan Pan , Haozhe Xie , Wangmeng Zuo , Jimmy Ren

In this paper, we introduce a challenging task: extracting a fundamental matrix from a single motion blurred image. For a camera moving in 3D during exposure, the smear paths in the blurry image contain cues and constraints on this motion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bao-Long Tran , Per-Erik Forssén , Fredrik Viksten

In this work we investigate operation in the Geiger mode of the new single photon avalanche photo diode (SPAD) SAP500 manufactured by Laser Components. This SPAD is sensitive in the range 400-1000nm and has a conventional reach-through…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-14 M. Stipcevic , H. Skenderovic , D. Gracin

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) data can be used to capture the depth and intensity profile of a 3D scene. This modality relies on constructing, for each pixel, a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Ximing Ren , Aongus McCarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Steve McLaughlin

We investigate the feasibility and performance of photon-number-resolved photodetection employing single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs) with low dark counts. While the main idea, to split $n$ photons into $m$ detection modes with no…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-28 Rajveer Nehra , Chun-Hung Chang , Qianhuan Yu , Andreas Beling , Olivier Pfister

We characterize a new commercial, back-illuminated reach-through silicon single-photon avalanche photo diode (SPAD) SAP500 (Laser Components. Inc.), operated in Geiger-mode for purpose of photon counting. We show that for this sensor a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-11-12 Mario Stipčević , Daqing Wang , Rupert Ursin

Digital camera pixels measure image intensities by converting incident light energy into an analog electrical current, and then digitizing it into a fixed-width binary representation. This direct measurement method, while conceptually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Atul Ingle , Trevor Seets , Mauro Buttafava , Shantanu Gupta , Alberto Tosi , Mohit Gupta , Andreas Velten

3D single-photon LiDAR imaging plays an important role in numerous applications. However, long acquisition times and significant data volumes present a challenge to LiDAR imaging. This paper proposes a task-optimized adaptive sampling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Mohamed Amir Alaa Belmekki , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen McLaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

Real time, high resolution 3D reconstruction of scenes hidden from the direct field of view is a challenging field of research with applications in real-life situations related e.g. to surveillance, self-driving cars and rescue missions.…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-24 G. Musarra , A. Lyons , E. Conca , Y. Altmann , F. Villa , F. Zappa , M. J. Padgett , D. Faccio

Motion blur is a known issue in photography, as it limits the exposure time while capturing moving objects. Extensive research has been carried to compensate for it. In this work, a computational imaging approach for motion deblurring is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Shay Elmalem , Raja Giryes , Emanuel Marom

This paper tackles the problem of motion deblurring of dynamic scenes. Although end-to-end fully convolutional designs have recently advanced the state-of-the-art in non-uniform motion deblurring, their performance-complexity trade-off is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) represent a cutting-edge imaging technology, capable of detecting individual photons with remarkable timing precision. Building on this sensitivity, Single Photon Cameras (SPCs) enable image capture at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Sumit Sharma , Gopi Raju Matta , Kaushik Mitra

In this work, we present SpaRC, a novel Sparse fusion transformer for 3D perception that integrates multi-view image semantics with Radar and Camera point features. The fusion of radar and camera modalities has emerged as an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Philipp Wolters , Johannes Gilg , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Felix Fent , Gerhard Rigoll