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State-of-the-art time-of-flight (ToF) based 3D sensors suffer from poor lateral and depth resolutions. In this work, we introduce a novel sensor concept that provides ToF-based 3D measurements of real world objects with depth precisions up…

A deep denoising based channel estimation framework is proposed for orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulated systems, wherein channel state information (CSI) recovery is formulated as an image restoration problem. A salient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Surbhi Gehlot , Siddhi Shinde , Suraj Srivastava , Sandeep Kumar Yadav

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

Optical imaging through diffusive, visually-opaque barriers, and around corners is an important challenge in many fields, ranging from defense to medical applications. Recently, novel techniques that combine time-of-flight (TOF)…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-12 Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Ori Katz

We present a novel approach to joint depth and normal estimation for time-of-flight (ToF) sensors. Our model learns to predict the high-quality depth and normal maps jointly from ToF raw sensor data. To achieve this, we meticulously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Rongrong Gao , Na Fan , Changlin Li , Wentao Liu , Qifeng Chen

We elaborate on the recently proposed orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation technique, which provides significant advantages over orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) in Doppler channels. We first derive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-28 P. Raviteja , Khoa T. Phan , Qianyu Jin , Yi Hong , Emanuele Viterbo

A variety of techniques such as light field, structured illumination, and time-of-flight (TOF) are commonly used for depth acquisition in consumer imaging, robotics and many other applications. Unfortunately, each technique suffers from its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Suren Jayasuriya , Adithya Pediredla , Sriram Sivaramakrishnan , Alyosha Molnar , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Depth maps captured by modern depth cameras such as Kinect and Time-of-Flight (ToF) are usually contaminated by missing data, noises and suffer from being of low resolution. In this paper, we present a robust method for high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Wei Liu , Yun Gu , Chunhua Shen , Xiaogang Chen , Qiang Wu , Jie Yang

Time-of-Flight (ToF) depth sensing camera is able to obtain depth maps at a high frame rate. However, its low resolution and sensitivity to the noise are always a concern. A popular solution is upsampling the obtained noisy low resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Wei Liu , Yijun Li , Xiaogang Chen , Jie Yang , Qiang Wu , Jingyi Yu

Indirect Time of Flight LiDARs can indirectly calculate the scene's depth from the phase shift angle between transmitted and received laser signals with amplitudes modulated at a predefined frequency. Unfortunately, this method generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Mena Nagiub , Thorsten Beuth , Ganesh Sistu , Heinrich Gotzig , Ciarán Eising

Mask-based lensless cameras can be flat, thin, and light-weight, which makes them suitable for novel designs of computational imaging systems with large surface areas and arbitrary shapes. Despite recent progress in lensless cameras, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Yucheng Zheng , M. Salman Asif

Signal recovery from nonlinear measurements involves solving an iterative optimization problem. In this paper, we present a framework to optimize the sensing parameters to improve the quality of the signal recovered by the given iterative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Zikui Cai , Rakib Hyder , M. Salman Asif

Differential wavefront sensing is an essential technique for optimising the performance of many precision interferometric experiments. Perhaps the most extensive application of this is for alignment sensing using radio-frequency beats…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniel D. Brown , Huy Tuong Cao , Alexei Ciobanu , Peter Veitch , David Ottaway

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

Deformable Monocular SLAM algorithms recover the localization of a camera in an unknown deformable environment. Current approaches use a template-based deformable tracking to recover the camera pose and the deformation of the map. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Jose Lamarca , Juan J. Gomez Rodriguez , Juan D. Tardos , J. M. M. Montiel

Continuous-wave Time-of-flight (TOF) range imaging has become a commercially viable technology with many applications in computer vision and graphics. However, the depth images obtained from TOF cameras contain scene dependent errors due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Nikhil Naik , Achuta Kadambi , Christoph Rhemann , Shahram Izadi , Ramesh Raskar , Sing Bing Kang

This paper proposes a novel method to filter out the false alarm of LiDAR system by using the temporal correlation of target reflected photons. Because of the inevitable noise, which is due to background light and dark counts of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-22 Zhenchao Feng , Weiji He , Jian Fang , Guohua Gu , Qian Chen , Ping Zhang , Yuanjin Chen , Beibei Zhou , Minhua Zhou

We consider the compressive sensing of a sparse or compressible signal ${\bf x} \in {\mathbb R}^M$. We explicitly construct a class of measurement matrices, referred to as the low density frames, and develop decoding algorithms that produce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-05 Mehmet Akçakaya , Jinsoo Park , Vahid Tarokh

Lossy compression algorithms aim to compactly encode images in a way which enables to restore them with minimal error. We show that a key limitation of existing algorithms is that they rely on error measures that are extremely sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Tamar Rott Shaham , Tomer Michaeli

Imaging through a strongly diffusive medium remains an outstanding challenge in particular in association with applications in biological and medical imaging. Here we propose a method based on a single-photon time-of-flight camera that…