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We shape fs optical pulses and deliver them in a single spatial mode to the input of a multimode fiber. The pulse is shaped in time such that at the output of the multimode fiber an ultrashort pulse appears at a predefined focus. Our result…

In turbid media, scattering of light scrambles information of the incident beam and represents an obstacle to optical imaging. Noninvasive imaging through opaque layers is challenging for dynamic and wide-field objects due to unreliable…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Yuan Yuan , Hui Chen

Direct time-of-flight (dToF) sensors are promising for next-generation on-device 3D sensing. However, limited by manufacturing capabilities in a compact module, the dToF data has a low spatial resolution (e.g., $\sim 20\times30$ for iPhone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Zhanghao Sun , Wei Ye , Jinhui Xiong , Gyeongmin Choe , Jialiang Wang , Shuochen Su , Rakesh Ranjan

Transmission matrix (TM) linearly maps the incident and transmitted complex fields, and has been used widely due to its ability to characterize scattering media. It is computationally demanding to reconstruct the TM from intensity images…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-05 Jingshan Zhong , Zhong Wen , Quanzhi Li , Qilin Deng , Qing Yang

Time-of-flight cameras provide depth information, which is complementary to the photometric appearance of the scene in ordinary images. It is desirable to merge the depth and colour information, in order to obtain a coherent scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Miles Hansard , Georgios Evangelidis , Quentin Pelorson , Radu Horaud

Ultrahigh-resolution optical strain sensors provide powerful tools in various scientific and engineering fields, ranging from long-baseline interferometers to civil and aerospace industries. Here we demonstrate an ultrahigh-resolution fibre…

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are subject to high levels of noise and distortions due to Multi-Path-Interference (MPI). While recent research showed that 2D neural networks are able to outperform previous traditional State-of-the-Art (SOTA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Michael Schelling , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Accurate Time-of-Flight (TOF) measurement with sub-100 picosecond resolution is a critical requirement for particle identification in future high-energy physics experiments, such as the Belle II $K_{L}$ and Muon (KLM) detector upgrade.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-14 Ziyi Yang , Xiyang Wang , Shiming Zou , Ting Wang , Kairui Huang , Wanyi Zhuang , Yicheng Pu , Xiaolong Wang

Recent advances in imaging sensors and digital light projection technology have facilitated a rapid progress in 3D optical sensing, enabling 3D surfaces of complex-shaped objects to be captured with improved resolution and accuracy.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-22 Chao Zuo , Tianyang Tao , Shijie Feng , Lei Huang , Anand Asundi , Qian Chen

Optical methods based on thin multimode fibers (MMFs) are promising tools for measuring neuronal activity in deep brain regions of freely moving mice thanks to their small diameter. However, current methods are limited: while fiber…

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

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

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

Transmission matrix (TM) allows light control through complex media such as multimode fibers (MMFs), gaining great attention in areas like biophotonics over the past decade. The measurement of a complex-valued TM is highly desired as it…

We introduce a high throughput 3D scanning solution specifically designed to precisely measure cattle phenotypes. This scanner leverages an array of depth sensors, i.e. time-of-flight (Tof) sensors, each governed by dedicated embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Gbenga Omotara , Seyed Mohamad Ali Tousi , Jared Decker , Derek Brake , Guilherme N. DeSouza

Continuous-wave Time-of-flight (TOF) range imaging has become a commercially viable technology with many applications in computer vision and graphics. However, the depth images obtained from TOF cameras contain scene dependent errors due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Nikhil Naik , Achuta Kadambi , Christoph Rhemann , Shahram Izadi , Ramesh Raskar , Sing Bing Kang

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

In this work, we propose a method for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of wide crime scene, based on a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approach. We used a Kinect V2 Time-of-Flight (TOF) RGB-D camera to provide colored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Silvio Giancola , Daniele Piron , Pasquale Poppa , Remo Sala

We introduce pulsed correlation time-of-flight (PC-ToF) sensing, a new operation mode for correlation time-of-flight range sensors that combines a sub-nanosecond laser pulse source with a rectangular demodulation at the sensor side. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Sebastian Werner , Henrik Schäfer , Matthias Hullin

When light propagates through a multimode optical fibre (MMF), the spatial information it carries is scrambled. Wavefront shaping can undo this scrambling, typically one spatial mode at a time - enabling deployment of MMFs as ultra-thin…