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We consider the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging of an object using the light reflected off a diffusive wall. The wall scatters incident light such that a lens is no longer useful to form an image. Instead, we exploit the 4D spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Andre Beckus , Alexandru Tamasan , George K. Atia

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging techniques use light that diffusely reflects off of visible surfaces (e.g., walls) to see around corners. One approach involves using pulsed lasers and ultrafast sensors to measure the travel time of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Mariko Isogawa , Dorian Chan , Ye Yuan , Kris Kitani , Matthew O'Toole

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging relies on collecting light that is rendered incoherent from the multiple scattering events and is then post-processed to provide an estimate of the hidden scene. Here we employ coherent phase control of the…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ilya Starshynov , Omair Ghafur , James Fitches , Daniele Faccio

This paper presents a novel optimization-based method for non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging that aims to reconstruct hidden scenes under general setups with significantly reduced reconstruction time. In NLOS imaging, the visible surfaces of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hyunbo Shim , In Cho , Daekyu Kwon , Seon Joo Kim

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging with intelligent sensors emerges as a novel technique in imaging and sensing occluded objects around corners. With the innovation of bio-inspired neuromorphic sensors, the applications of novel sensors in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-15 Conghe Wang , Xia Wang , Yujie Fang , Changda Yan , Xin Zhang , Yifan Zuo

We describe a method for 3D human pose estimation from transient images (i.e., a 3D spatio-temporal histogram of photons) acquired by an optical non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging system. Our method can perceive 3D human pose by `looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mariko Isogawa , Ye Yuan , Matthew O'Toole , Kris Kitani

Existing time-resolved non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging methods reconstruct hidden scenes by inverting the optical paths of indirect illumination measured at visible relay surfaces. These methods are prone to reconstruction artifacts due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Kiseok Choi , Inchul Kim , Dongyoung Choi , Julio Marco , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim

Imaging objects obscured by occluders is a significant challenge for many applications. A camera that could "see around corners" could help improve navigation and mapping capabilities of autonomous vehicles or make search and rescue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Felix Heide , Matthew O'Toole , Kai Zang , David Lindell , Steven Diamond , Gordon Wetzstein

A deep learning based non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging system is developed to image an occluded object off a scattering surface. The neural net is trained using only handwritten digits, and yet exhibits capability to reconstruct patterns…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Chen Zhou , Cheng-Yu Wang , Zhiwen Liu

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging and tracking is an emerging technology that allows the shape or position of objects around corners or behind diffusers to be recovered from transient, time-of-flight measurements. However, existing NLOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Christopher A. Metzler , David B. Lindell , Gordon Wetzstein

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging allows to observe objects partially or fully occluded from direct view, by analyzing indirect diffuse reflections off a secondary, relay surface. Despite its many potential applications, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Xiaochun Liu , Ibón Guillén , Marco La Manna , Ji Hyun Nam , Syed Azer Reza , Toan Huu Le , Diego Gutierrez , Adrian Jarabo , Andreas Velten

Real time, high resolution 3D reconstruction of scenes hidden from the direct field of view is a challenging field of research with applications in real-life situations related e.g. to surveillance, self-driving cars and rescue missions.…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-24 G. Musarra , A. Lyons , E. Conca , Y. Altmann , F. Villa , F. Zappa , M. J. Padgett , D. Faccio

Non-line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging systems collect light at a diffuse relay surface and input this measurement into computational algorithms that output a 3D volumetric reconstruction. These algorithms utilize the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Talha Sultan , Alex Bocchieri , Chaoying Gu , Xiaochun Liu , Pavel Polynkin , Andreas Velten

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is conducted to infer invisible scenes from indirect light on visible objects. The neural transient field (NeTF) was proposed for representing scenes as neural radiance fields in NLOS scenes. We propose NLOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuki Fujimura , Takahiro Kushida , Takuya Funatomi , Yasuhiro Mukaigawa

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging allows for the imaging of objects around a corner, which enables potential applications in various fields such as autonomous driving, robotic vision, medical imaging, security monitoring, etc. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Duolan Huang , Quan Chen , Zhun Wei , Rui Chen

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging of objects not visible to either the camera or illumination source is a challenging task with vital applications including surveillance and robotics. Recent NLOS reconstruction advances have been achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Sreenithy Chandran , Suren Jayasuriya

There has been an increasing interest in deploying non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging systems for recovering objects behind an obstacle. Existing solutions generally pre-calibrate the system before scanning the hidden objects. Onsite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Zhengqing Pan , Ruiqian Li , Tian Gao , Zi Wang , Ping Liu , Siyuan Shen , Tao Wu , Jingyi Yu , Shiying Li

Passive non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging has witnessed rapid development in recent years, due to its ability to image objects that are out of sight. The light transport condition plays an important role in this task since changing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jiarui Zhang , Ruixu Geng , Xiaolong Du , Yan Chen , Houqiang Li , Yang Hu

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

We present a neural modeling framework for Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging. Previous solutions have sought to explicitly recover the 3D geometry (e.g., as point clouds) or voxel density (e.g., within a pre-defined volume) of the hidden…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Siyuan Shen , Zi Wang , Ping Liu , Zhengqing Pan , Ruiqian Li , Tian Gao , Shiying Li , Jingyi Yu