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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

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

We present a method to reconstruct dynamic scenes from monocular continuous-wave time-of-flight (C-ToF) cameras using raw sensor samples that achieves similar or better accuracy than neural volumetric approaches and is 100x faster. Quickly…

High frame rate and accurate depth estimation plays an important role in several tasks crucial to robotics and automotive perception. To date, this can be achieved through ToF and LiDAR devices for indoor and outdoor applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Andrea Conti , Matteo Poggi , Valerio Cambareri , Stefano Mattoccia

We present a novel single-shot interferometric ToF camera targeted for precise 3D measurements of dynamic objects. The camera concept is based on Synthetic Wavelength Interferometry, a technique that allows retrieval of depth maps of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Manuel Ballester , Heming Wang , Jiren Li , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

Long-distance depth imaging holds great promise for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Direct time-of-flight (dToF) imaging offers high-precision, long-distance depth sensing, yet demands ultra-short pulse light sources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Manchao Bao , Shengjiang Fang , Tao Yue , Xuemei Hu

Photon counting lidar has become an invaluable tool for 3D depth imaging due to the fine-precision it can achieve over long ranges. However, high frame rate, high resolution lidar devices produce an enormous amount of time-of-flight (ToF)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Michael Patrick Sheehan , Julian Tachella , Mike E. Davies

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are becoming popular in time-of-flight depth-ranging due to their unique ability to capture individual photons with picosecond timing resolution. However, ambient light (e.g., sunlight) incident on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Anant Gupta , Atul Ingle , Mohit Gupta

Depth cameras are emerging as a cornerstone modality with diverse applications that directly or indirectly rely on measured depth, including personal devices, robotics, and self-driving vehicles. Although time-of-flight (ToF) methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Seung-Hwan Baek , Noah Walsh , Ilya Chugunov , Zheng Shi , Felix Heide

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

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have become a ubiquitous tool for modeling scene appearance and geometry from multiview imagery. Recent work has also begun to explore how to use additional supervision from lidar or depth sensor measurements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anagh Malik , Parsa Mirdehghan , Sotiris Nousias , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , David B. Lindell

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

Imaging across both the full transverse spatial and temporal dimensions of a scene with high precision in all three coordinates is key to applications ranging from LIDAR to fluorescence lifetime imaging. However, compromises that sacrifice,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 C. Callenberg , A. Lyons , D. den Brok , A. Fatima , A. Turpin , V. Zickus , L. Machesky , J. Whitelaw , D. Faccio , M. B. Hullin

High-fidelity sensor simulation of light-based sensors such as cameras and LiDARs is critical for safe and accurate autonomy testing. Neural radiance field (NeRF)-based methods that reconstruct sensor observations via ray-casting of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yun Chen , Matthew Haines , Jingkang Wang , Sahil Jain , Krzysztof Baron-Lis , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Ze Yang , Raquel Urtasun

Lightweight direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) sensors are ideal for 3D sensing on mobile devices. However, due to the manufacturing constraints of compact devices and the inherent physical principles of imaging, dToF depth maps are sparse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xuan Zhu , Jijun Xiang , Xianqi Wang , Longliang Liu , Yu Wang , Hong Zhang , Fei Guo , Xin Yang

Time-resolved single photon imaging is a promising imaging modality characterized by the unique capability of timestamping the arrivals of single photons. Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) are the leading technology for implementing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Aleksi Suonsivu , Lauri Salmela , Edoardo Peretti , Leevi Uosukainen , Radu Ciprian Bilcu , Giacomo Boracchi

Photorealistic simulation plays a crucial role in applications such as autonomous driving, where advances in neural radiance fields (NeRFs) may allow better scalability through the automatic creation of digital 3D assets. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Shanlin Sun , Bingbing Zhuang , Ziyu Jiang , Buyu Liu , Xiaohui Xie , Manmohan Chandraker

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

Indirect Time-of-Flight (I-ToF) imaging is a widespread way of depth estimation for mobile devices due to its small size and affordable price. Previous works have mainly focused on quality improvement for I-ToF imaging especially curing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 HyunJun Jung , Nikolas Brasch , Ales Leonardis , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) are new and promising imaging sensors. These sensors are sensitive enough to detect individual photons hitting each pixel, with extreme temporal resolution and without readout noise. Thus, SPADs stand…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-21 Aleksi Suonsivu , Lauri Salmela , Leevi Uosukainen , Edoardo Peretti , Radu Ciprian Bilcu , Giacomo Boracchi