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The recent years have given rise to a large number of techniques for "looking around corners", i.e., for reconstructing occluded objects from time-resolved measurements of indirect light reflections off a wall. While the direct view of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Jonathan Klein , Martin Laurenzis , Matthias B. Hullin , Julian Iseringhausen

Being able to see beyond the direct line of sight is an intriguing prospective and could benefit a wide variety of important applications. Recent work has demonstrated that time-resolved measurements of indirect diffuse light contain…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has the potential to enhance sensing performance, due to its capability of reshaping the echo signals. Different from the existing literature, which has commonly focused on IRS beamforming optimization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Zhouyuan Yu , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Qin Tao , Mugen Peng

LiDARs are being increasingly deployed for consumer imaging in handheld, wearable, and robotic applications. These sensors can capture the time-of-flight of light at picosecond resolution, which in principle, enables them to capture…

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The acquisition of objects outside the Line-of-Sight of cameras is a very intriguing but also extremely challenging research topic. Recent works showed the feasibility of this idea exploiting transient imaging data produced by custom direct…

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Efficient exploration and mapping in unknown indoor environments is a fundamental challenge, with high stakes in time-critical settings. In current systems, robot perception remains confined to line-of-sight; occluded regions remain unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kush Garg , Akshat Dave

In this work, we study the problem of non-blind image deconvolution and propose a novel recurrent network architecture that leads to very competitive restoration results of high image quality. Motivated by the computational efficiency and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-13 Iaroslav Koshelev , Daniil Selikhanovych , Stamatios Lefkimmiatis

This paper deals with radar imaging in non-line of sight (NLOS) with the aid of non-reconfigurable electromagnetic skins (NR-EMSs). NR-EMSs are passive metasurfaces whose reflection properties are defined during the manufacturing process,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Davide Tornielli Bellini , Dario Tagliaferri , Marouan Mizmizi , Stefano Tebaldini , Umberto Spagnolini

The light transport matrix (LTM) is an instrumental tool in line-of-sight (LOS) imaging, describing how light interacts with the scene and enabling applications such as relighting or separation of illumination components. We introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Julio Marco , Adrian Jarabo , Ji Hyun Nam , Xiaochun Liu , Miguel Ángel Cosculluela , Andreas Velten , Diego Gutierrez

Images captured from low-light scenes often suffer from severe degradations, including low visibility, color cast and intensive noises, etc. These factors not only affect image qualities, but also degrade the performance of downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Risheng Liu , Long Ma , Tengyu Ma , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) sensing has the potential to enable use cases like intrusion detection in occluded areas, increasing the value provided by Integrated Sensing and Commu- nications (ISAC) in future 6G cellular networks. In this…

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Mapping the terrain and understory hidden beneath dense forest canopies is of great interest for numerous applications such as search and rescue, trail mapping, forest inventory tasks, and more. Existing solutions rely on specialized…

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Non-line-of-sight (NLoS) imaging is an important challenge in many fields ranging from autonomous vehicles and smart cities to defense applications. Several recent works in optics and acoustics tackle the challenge of imaging targets hidden…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Yevgeny Slobodkin , Ori Katz

This paper aims to facilitate more practical NLOS imaging by reducing the number of samplings and scan areas. To this end, we introduce a phasor-based enhancement network that is capable of predicting clean and full measurements from noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 In Cho , Hyunbo Shim , Seon Joo Kim

The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects occluded from the camera's field of view using multiply scattered light. Recent works have demonstrated the feasibility of two-bounce (2B) NLOS imaging by scanning a laser and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Siddharth Somasundaram , Akshat Dave , Connor Henley , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ramesh Raskar

Neuromorphic or event cameras, inspired by biological vision systems, capture changes in illumination with high temporal resolution and efficiency, producing streams of events rather than traditional images. In this paper, we explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Abbaas Alif Mohamed Nishar , Alireza Marefat , Ashwin Ashok

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) optical imaging and sensing of objects imply new capabilities valuable to autonomous technology, machine vision, and other applications. Existing NLOS imaging methods rely heavily on the prowess of computational…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-21 Shenyu Zhu , Yong Meng Sua , Patrick Rehain , Yu-Ping Huang

In this paper, a sensing-assisted non-line-of-sight (NLoS) identification method for dynamic uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) positioning is proposed for the first time. For urban UAV-to-ground scenarios, a new multi-modal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Huijuan Qiao , Lu Bai , Mingran Sun , Mengyuan Lu , Jiajing Chen , Xiang Cheng

Robust autonomous navigation in environments with limited visibility remains a critical challenge in robotics. We present a novel approach that leverages Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) sensing using single-photon LiDAR to improve visibility and…

The great advances of learning-based approaches in image processing and computer vision are largely based on deeply nested networks that compose linear transfer functions with suitable non-linearities. Interestingly, the most frequently…

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