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We introduce Mask-ToF, a method to reduce flying pixels (FP) in time-of-flight (ToF) depth captures. FPs are pervasive artifacts which occur around depth edges, where light paths from both an object and its background are integrated over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Ilya Chugunov , Seung-Hwan Baek , Qiang Fu , Wolfgang Heidrich , Felix Heide

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras possess compact design and high measurement precision to be applied to various robot tasks. However, their limited sensing range restricts deployment in large-scale scenarios. Depth completion has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Juncheng Chen , Tiancheng Lai , Xingpeng Wang , Bingxin Liao , Baozhe Zhang , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao

State-of-the-art time-of-flight (ToF) based 3D sensors suffer from poor lateral and depth resolutions. In this work, we introduce a novel sensor concept that provides ToF-based 3D measurements of real world objects with depth precisions up…

Depth sensing is useful in a variety of applications that range from augmented reality to robotics. Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are appealing because they obtain dense depth measurements with minimal latency. However, for many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 James Noraky , Vivienne Sze

Depth maps captured by modern depth cameras such as Kinect and Time-of-Flight (ToF) are usually contaminated by missing data, noises and suffer from being of low resolution. In this paper, we present a robust method for high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Wei Liu , Yun Gu , Chunhua Shen , Xiaogang Chen , Qiang Wu , Jie Yang

An indirect Pulse-based Time-of-Flight camera can be modelled as a linear sensing system in which the target's depth is recovered from few measurements through a sensing matrix formed by a set of demodulation functions. Each demodulation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Alvaro Lopez Paredes , Miguel Heredia Conde

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are sensors that can measure the depths of scene-points, by illuminating the scene with a controlled laser or LED source, and then analyzing the reflected light. In this paper, we will first describe the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Radu Horaud , Miles Hansard , Georgios Evangelidis , Clement Menier

Passive Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging can be enabled by optical wireless communication (OWC). The lighting infrastructure is the backbone of emerging light-based wireless communication. To this end, communication sources are used as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Faisal Ahmed , Miguel Heredia Conde , Paula López Martínez

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

Neural networks can represent and accurately reconstruct radiance fields for static 3D scenes (e.g., NeRF). Several works extend these to dynamic scenes captured with monocular video, with promising performance. However, the monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Benjamin Attal , Eliot Laidlaw , Aaron Gokaslan , Changil Kim , Christian Richardt , James Tompkin , Matthew O'Toole

Time of Flight (ToF) is a prevalent depth sensing technology in the fields of robotics, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing. Yet, ToF sensing faces challenges from complex ambient conditions making an inverse modelling from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Christopher Hahne , Michel Hayoz , Raphael Sznitman

We provide methods which recover planar scene geometry by utilizing the transient histograms captured by a class of close-range time-of-flight (ToF) distance sensor. A transient histogram is a one dimensional temporal waveform which encodes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Carter Sifferman , Yeping Wang , Mohit Gupta , Michael Gleicher

Spatially and temporally highly resolved depth information enables numerous applications including human-machine interaction in gaming or safety functions in the automotive industry. In this paper, we address this issue using Time-of-flight…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Stephan Antholzer , Christoph Wolf , Michael Sandbichler , Markus Dielacher , Markus Haltmeier

Time-of-flight (ToF) cameras calculate depth maps by reconstructing phase shifts of amplitude-modulated signals. For broad illumination or transparent objects, reflections from multiple scene points can illuminate a given pixel, giving rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Ayush Bhandari , Achuta Kadambi , Refael Whyte , Christopher Barsi , Micha Feigin , Adrian Dorrington , Ramesh Raskar

Time-of-flight (ToF) devices have greatly propelled the advancement of various multi-modal perception applications. However, achieving accurate rendering of time-resolved information remains a challenge, particularly in scenes involving…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Qianyue He , Dongyu Du , Haitian Jiang , Xin Jin

We propose a novel approach to recovering the translucent objects from a single time-of-flight (ToF) depth camera using deep residual networks. When recording the translucent objects using the ToF depth camera, their depth values are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Seongjong Song , Hyunjung Shim

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are based on a new technology that delivers distance maps by the use of a modulated light source. In this paper we first describe a set of experiments that we performed with TOF cameras. We then propose a noise…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Dragos Falie , Vasile Buzuloiu

Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors provide efficient active depth sensing at relatively low power budgets; among such designs, only very sparse measurements from low-resolution sensors are considered to meet the increasingly limited power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Andrea Conti , Matteo Poggi , Valerio Cambareri , Martin R. Oswald , Stefano Mattoccia

A variety of techniques such as light field, structured illumination, and time-of-flight (TOF) are commonly used for depth acquisition in consumer imaging, robotics and many other applications. Unfortunately, each technique suffers from its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Suren Jayasuriya , Adithya Pediredla , Sriram Sivaramakrishnan , Alyosha Molnar , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Recently, it is increasingly popular to equip mobile RGB cameras with Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors for active depth sensing. However, for off-the-shelf ToF sensors, one must tackle two problems in order to obtain high-quality depth with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Di Qiu , Jiahao Pang , Wenxiu Sun , Chengxi Yang