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Conventionally, human intuition defines vision as a modality of passive optical sensing, relying on ambient light to perceive the environment. However, active optical sensing, which involves emitting and receiving signals, offers unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wei Gao , Jie Zhang , Mingle Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shu Kong , Maani Ghaffari , Dezhen Song , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Hui Kong

Modeling scene geometry using implicit neural representation has revealed its advantages in accuracy, flexibility, and low memory usage. Previous approaches have demonstrated impressive results using color or depth images but still have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Dongyu Yan , Xiaoyang Lyu , Jieqi Shi , Yi Lin

The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects occluded from the camera's field of view using multiply scattered light. Recent works have demonstrated the feasibility of two-bounce (2B) NLOS imaging by scanning a laser and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Siddharth Somasundaram , Akshat Dave , Connor Henley , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ramesh Raskar

The recent years have seen a surge of interest in methods for imaging beyond the direct line of sight. The most prominent techniques rely on time-resolved optical impulse responses, obtained by illuminating a diffuse wall with an ultrashort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Javier Grau Chopite , Matthias B. Hullin , Michael Wand , Julian Iseringhausen

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…

This paper proposes LONER, the first real-time LiDAR SLAM algorithm that uses a neural implicit scene representation. Existing implicit mapping methods for LiDAR show promising results in large-scale reconstruction, but either require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Seth Isaacson , Pou-Chun Kung , Mani Ramanagopal , Ram Vasudevan , Katherine A. Skinner

Depth acquisition, based on active illumination, is essential for autonomous and robotic navigation. LiDARs (Light Detection And Ranging) with mechanical, fixed, sampling templates are commonly used in today's autonomous vehicles. An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Adam Wolff , Shachar Praisler , Ilya Tcenov , Guy Gilboa

We consider the problem of few-viewpoint 3D surface reconstruction using raw measurements from a lidar system. Lidar captures 3D scene geometry by emitting pulses of light to a target and recording the speed-of-light time delay of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Weihan Luo , Anagh Malik , David B. Lindell

Fast and sensitive detector arrays enable image scanning microscopy (ISM), overcoming the trade-off between spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) typical of confocal microscopy. However, current ISM approaches cannot provide…

Mask-based lensless imagers are smaller and lighter than traditional lensed cameras. In these imagers, the sensor does not directly record an image of the scene; rather, a computational algorithm reconstructs it. Typically, mask-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Kristina Monakhova , Joshua Yurtsever , Grace Kuo , Nick Antipa , Kyrollos Yanny , Laura Waller

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) optical imaging and sensing of objects imply new capabilities valuable to autonomous technology, machine vision, and other applications. Existing NLOS imaging methods rely heavily on the prowess of computational…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-21 Shenyu Zhu , Yong Meng Sua , Patrick Rehain , Yu-Ping Huang

Supervised deep learning approaches can artificially increase the resolution of microscopy images by learning a mapping between two image resolutions or modalities. However, such methods often require a large set of hard-to-get…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Marzieh Gheisari , Auguste Genovesio

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

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

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

Near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar imaging systems have recently gained significant attention. In this paper, we develop novel non-iterative deep learning-based reconstruction methods for real-time near-field MIMO…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Irfan Manisali , Okyanus Oral , Figen S. Oktem

In this paper a novel NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight) identification technique is proposed. In comparison to other methods described in the literature, it discerns a situation when the delayed direct path component is available from when it's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Marcin Kolakowski , Jozef Modelski

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) sensing has the potential to enable use cases like intrusion detection in occluded areas, increasing the value provided by Integrated Sensing and Commu- nications (ISAC) in future 6G cellular networks. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Paolo Tosi , Maximilian Bauhofer , Marcus Henninger , Laurent Schmalen , Silvio Mandelli

Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) captures depth and intensity information of a 3D scene. Reconstructing a scene from observed photons is a challenging task due to spurious detections associated with background illumination…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Julián Tachella , Michael P. Sheehan , Mike E. Davies