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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

We propose a joint TDC and multi-time-gated imaging single-photon avalanche diode LiDAR sensor featuring a maximum detection range of 108m with a minimum depth resolution (least significant bit) of 2.93mm, fabricated in 110nm CMOS…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-23 Chang Liu , Edoardo Charbon

This paper introduces a method based on a deep neural network (DNN) that is perfectly capable of processing radar data from extremely thinned radar apertures. The proposed DNN processing can provide both aliasing-free radar imaging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Christian Schuessler , Marcel Hoffmann , Martin Vossiek

We present a novel structured light technique that uses Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) arrays to enable 3D scanning at high-frame rates and low-light levels. This technique, called "Single-Photon Structured Light", works by sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Varun Sundar , Sizhuo Ma , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Mohit Gupta

Real-time accurate detection of three-dimensional (3D) objects is a fundamental necessity for self-driving vehicles. Most existing computer vision approaches are based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although the CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Shibo Zhou , Ying Chen , Xiaohua Li , Arindam Sanyal

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

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been widely used in autonomous driving and large-scale manufacturing. Although state-of-the-art scanning LiDAR can perform long-range three-dimensional imaging, the frame rate is limited by both…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-10 Zihan Zang , Zhi Li , Yi Luo , Yanjun Han , Xuanyi Liu , H. Y. Fu

Autonomous vehicles rely heavily on sensors such as camera and LiDAR, which provide real-time information about their surroundings for the tasks of perception, planning and control. Typically a LiDAR can only provide sparse point cloud…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Mahdi Elhousni , Xinming Huang

We present a cost-effective new approach for generating denser depth maps for Autonomous Driving (AD) and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) by integrating the images obtained from deep neural network (DNN) 4D radar detectors with conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mohammed Alsakabi , Aidan Erickson , John M. Dolan , Ozan K. Tonguz

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are sensors that can measure the depths of scene-points, by illuminating the scene with a controlled laser or LED source, and then analyzing the reflected light. In this paper, we will first describe the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Radu Horaud , Miles Hansard , Georgios Evangelidis , Clement Menier

Depth is a vital piece of information for autonomous vehicles to perceive obstacles. Due to the relatively low price and small size of monocular cameras, depth estimation from a single RGB image has attracted great interest in the research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Xingshuai Dong , Matthew A. Garratt , Sreenatha G. Anavatti , Hussein A. Abbass

We introduce Mask-ToF, a method to reduce flying pixels (FP) in time-of-flight (ToF) depth captures. FPs are pervasive artifacts which occur around depth edges, where light paths from both an object and its background are integrated over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Ilya Chugunov , Seung-Hwan Baek , Qiang Fu , Wolfgang Heidrich , Felix Heide

In this work we present a novel approach for single depth map super-resolution. Modern consumer depth sensors, especially Time-of-Flight sensors, produce dense depth measurements, but are affected by noise and have a low lateral resolution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Gernot Riegler , Matthias Rüther , Horst Bischof

As one of the automotive sensors that have emerged in recent years, 4D millimeter-wave radar has a higher resolution than conventional 3D radar and provides precise elevation measurements. But its point clouds are still sparse and noisy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hongsi Liu , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , Xin Jin

In this thesis, we leverage monocular cameras on aerial robots to predict depth and semantic maps in low-altitude unstructured environments. We propose a joint deep-learning architecture, named Co-SemDepth, that can perform the two tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yara AlaaEldin

Driver assistance systems as well as autonomous cars have to rely on sensors to perceive their environment. A heterogeneous set of sensors is used to perform this task robustly. Among them, radar sensors are indispensable because of their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Johanna Rock , Mate Toth , Elmar Messner , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

Range images captured by Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are corrupted with multipath distortions due to interaction between modulated light signals and scenes. The interaction is often complicated, which makes a model-based solution elusive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-24 Kilho Son , Ming-Yu Liu , Yuichi Taguchi

Single-photon lidar has emerged as a prime candidate technology for depth imaging through challenging environments. Until now, a major limitation has been the significant amount of time required for the analysis of the recorded data. Here…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Nicolas Mellado , Aongus McCarthy , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Stephen McLaughlin

Single Photon Avalanche Diode sensor arrays operating in direct time of flight mode can perform 3D imaging using pulsed lasers. Operating at high frame rates, SPAD imagers typically generate large volumes of noisy and largely redundant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Saeed Afshar , Tara Julia Hamilton , Langdon Davis , Andre van Schaik , Dennis Delic

Integrating an RGB camera into a ToF imaging system has become a significant technique for perceiving the real world. The RGB guided ToF imaging system is crucial to several applications, including face anti-spoofing, saliency detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Xin Qiao , Matteo Poggi , Pengchao Deng , Hao Wei , Chenyang Ge , Stefano Mattoccia