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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 present an analytic model for simulating automotive time-of-flight (ToF) LiDAR that includes blooming, echo pulse width, and ambient light, along with steps to determine model parameters systematically through optical laboratory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 L. Dudzik , M. Roschani , A. Sielemann , K. Trampert , J. Ziehn , J. Beyerer , C. Neumann

The polarization of light conveys crucial information about the spatial ordering and optical properties of a specimen. However, precise polarization measurement in challenging conditions, including constrained spaces, low light levels, and…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Martin Bielak , Dominik Vašinka , Miroslav Ježek

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

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

Modern LiDAR sensors find increasing use in safety-critical applications. Therefore, highly accurate modeling of the system's behavior under demanding environmental conditions is necessary. In this paper, we present a modular structure to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-09 Maximilian Fink , Michael Schardt , Valentin Baier , Kun Wang , Martin Jakobi , Alexander W. Koch

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, 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

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

Light-weight time-of-flight (ToF) depth sensors are small, cheap, low-energy and have been massively deployed on mobile devices for the purposes like autofocus, obstacle detection, etc. However, due to their specific measurements (depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yijin Li , Xinyang Liu , Wenqi Dong , Han Zhou , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Yinda Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Acquisition and modeling of polarized light reflection and scattering help reveal the shape, structure, and physical characteristics of an object, which is increasingly important in computer graphics. However, current polarimetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Hyunho Ha , Inseung Hwang , Nestor Monzon , Jaemin Cho , Donggun Kim , Seung-Hwan Baek , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim

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

Accurately measuring the geometry and spatially-varying reflectance of real-world objects is a complex task due to their intricate shapes formed by concave features, hollow engravings and diverse surfaces, resulting in inter-reflection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jing Yang , Pratusha Bhuvana Prasad , Qing Zhang , Yajie Zhao

Visible-light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols within the boundary layer affect the radiance and polarization states of the radiation at the top of the atmosphere. Remote sensing from suborbital and satellite-based platforms utilizes these…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Chenchong Zhang , William R. Heinson , Michael J. Garay , Olga Kalashnikova , Rajan K. Chakrabarty

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

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

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

A pulse oximeter is an optical device that monitors tissue oxygenation levels. Traditionally, these devices estimate the oxygenation level by measuring the intensity of the transmitted light through the tissue and are embedded into everyday…

Time-of-flight (ToF) imaging has become a widespread technique for depth estimation, allowing affordable off-the-shelf cameras to provide depth maps in real time. However, multipath interference (MPI) resulting from indirect illumination…

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