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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

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging methods are capable of reconstructing complex scenes that are not visible to an observer using indirect illumination. However, they assume only third-bounce illumination, so they are currently limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Diego Royo , Talha Sultan , Adolfo Muñoz , Khadijeh Masumnia-Bisheh , Eric Brandt , Diego Gutierrez , Andreas Velten , Julio Marco

Automotive radar is a key component of sensing suites in autonomous driving (AD) and advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS). However, limited line-of-sight (LOS) significantly reduces radar efficiency in dense urban environments. Therefore,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Aviran Gal , Igal Bilik

As an emerging technology that has attracted huge attention, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging can reconstruct hidden objects by analyzing the diffuse reflection on a relay surface, with broad application prospects in the fields of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Ruixu Geng , Yang Hu , Yan Chen

In this paper, we investigate a non-lineof-sight (NLOS) sensing problem at terahertz frequencies. To be able to observe the targets shadowed by a blockage, we propose a method using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). We employ a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Furkan H. Ilgac , Emrah Cisija , Aya Mostafa Ahmed , Musa Furkan Keskin , Aydin Sezgin , Henk Wymeersch

The accuracy of traditional localization methods significantly degrades when the direct path between the wireless transmitter and the target is blocked or non-penetrable. This paper proposes N2LoS, a novel approach for precise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zhenguo Shi , Yihe Yan , Yanxiang Wang , Wen Hu , Chun Tung Chou

Emerging single-photon-sensitive sensors combined with advanced inverse methods to process picosecond-accurate time-stamped photon counts have given rise to unprecedented imaging capabilities. Rather than imaging photons that travel along…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-19 D. Faccio , A. Velten , G. Wetzstein

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

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging aims at recovering the 3D geometry of objects that are hidden from the direct line of sight. In the past, this method has suffered from the weak available multibounce signal limiting scene size, capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ji Hyun Nam , Eric Brandt , Sebastian Bauer , Xiaochun Liu , Eftychios Sifakis , Andreas Velten

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 enables monitoring around corners and is promising for diverse applications. The resolution of transient NLOS imaging is limited to a centimeter scale, mainly by the temporal resolution of the detectors.…

This letter studies an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled non-line-of-sight (NLoS) target detection system, in which an active IRS equipped with active reflecting elements and sensors is strategically deployed to facilitate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Xianxin Song , Xiaoqi Qin , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

The performance of the sensing system is limited by the signal attenuation and the number of receiving components. In this letter, we investigate the sensor position selection in a semi-passive intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Guangji Chen , Ying Gao , Lexi Xu , Shaodan Ma

In the past few decades, the localization literature has seen many models attempting to characterize the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) bias error commonly experienced in range measurements. These models have either been based on specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Christopher E. O'Lone , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

Conventional imaging only records photons directly sent from the object to the detector, while non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging takes the indirect light into account. Most NLOS solutions employ a transient scanning process, followed by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Dayu Zhu , Wenshan Cai

In this paper, we consider a challenging secure wireless sensing scenario where a legitimate radar station (LRS) intends to detect a target at unknown location in the presence of an unauthorized radar station (URS). We aim to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

This paper studies the multi-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted cooperative sensing, in which multiple active IRSs are deployed in a distributed manner to facilitate multi-view target sensing at the non-line-of-sight (NLoS) area…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Yuan Fang , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables the visualization of objects hidden from direct view, with applications in surveillance, remote sensing, and light detection and ranging. Here, we introduce a NLOS imaging technique termed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Pengming Song , Qianhao Zhao , Ruihai Wang , Ninghe Liu , Yingqi Qiang , Tianbo Wang , Xincheng Zhang , Yi Zhang , Guoan Zheng

This paper investigates intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled non-line-of-sight (NLoS) wireless sensing, in which an IRS is dedicatedly deployed to assist an access point (AP) to sense a target at its NLoS region. It is assumed that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-05 Xianxin Song , Jie Xu , Fan Liu , Tony Xiao Han , Yonina C. Eldar