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In this paper, we present a novel Single Shot multi-Span Detector for temporal activity detection in long, untrimmed videos using a simple end-to-end fully three-dimensional convolutional (Conv3D) network. Our architecture, named S3D,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Da Zhang , Xiyang Dai , Xin Wang , Yuan-Fang Wang

Depth is a very important modality in computer vision, typically used as complementary information to RGB, provided by RGB-D cameras. In this work, we show that it is possible to obtain the same level of accuracy as RGB-D cameras on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Pranav Sharma , Jigyasa Singh Katrolia , Jason Rambach , Bruno Mirbach , Didier Stricker , Juergen Seiler

CMOS-compatible single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) have emerged in many systems as the solution of choice for cameras with photon-number resolution and photon counting capabilities. Being natively digital optical interfaces, SPADs are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Tommaso Milanese , Baris Can Efe , Claudio Bruschini , Nobukazu Teranishi , Edoardo Charbon

We propose a fully asynchronous peak detection approach for SPAD-based direct time-of-flight (dToF) flash LiDAR, enabling pixel-wise event-driven depth acquisition without global synchronization. By allowing pixels to independently report…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Yiyang Liu , Rongxuan Zhang , Istvan Gyongy , Alistair Gorman , Sarrah M. Patanwala , Filip Taneski , Robert K. Henderson

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

Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) is one of the fastest algorithms in the current object detection field, which uses fully convolutional neural network to detect all scaled objects in an image. Deconvolutional Single Shot Detector (DSSD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Liwen Zheng , Canmiao Fu , Yong Zhao

In recent years, computational Time-of-Flight (ToF) imaging has emerged as an exciting and a novel imaging modality that offers new and powerful interpretations of natural scenes, with applications extending to 3D, light-in-flight, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Ruiming Guo , Ayush Bhandari

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

Single-photon time-of-flight (TOF) non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables the high-resolution reconstruction of objects outside the field of view. The compactness of TOF NLOS imaging systems, entailing the miniaturization of key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-12 Jie Wu , Chao Yu , Jian-Wei Zeng , Chen Dai , Feihu Xu , Jun Zhang

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

Despite the steady progress in video analysis led by the adoption of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), the relative improvement has been less drastic as that in 2D static image classification. Three main challenges exist including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Saining Xie , Chen Sun , Jonathan Huang , Zhuowen Tu , Kevin Murphy

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

Three-dimensional imaging plays an important role in imaging applications where it is necessary to record depth. The number of applications that use depth imaging is increasing rapidly, and examples include self-driving autonomous vehicles…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Alice Ruget , Stephen McLaughlin , Robert K. Henderson , Istvan Gyongy , Abderrahim Halimi , Jonathan Leach

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

Photonic quantum technologies promise a revolution of the world of information processing, from simulation and computing to communication and sensing, thanks to the many advantages of exploiting single photons as quantum information…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-11 Francesco Ceccarelli , Giulia Acconcia , Angelo Gulinatti , Massimo Ghioni , Ivan Rech , Roberto Osellame

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

Time-of-flight three dimensional imaging is an important tool for many applications, such as object recognition and remote sensing. Unlike conventional imaging approach using pixelated detector array, single-pixel imaging based on projected…

SSD (Single Shot Multibox Detector) is one of the best object detection algorithms with both high accuracy and fast speed. However, SSD's feature pyramid detection method makes it hard to fuse the features from different scales. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zuoxin Li , Lu Yang , Fuqiang Zhou

Avalanche photo detection is commonly used in applications which require single photon sensitivity. We examine the limits of using avalanche photo diodes (APD) for characterising photon statistics at high data rates. To identify the regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge , C. Silberhorn

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays have transformed optical imaging by enabling photon-counting sensitivity, picosecond resolution, and high frame-rate operation. These capabilities, however, have remained confined to the visible…