English
Related papers

Related papers: Transientangelo: Few-Viewpoint Surface Reconstruct…

200 papers

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR), offering single-photon sensitivity and picosecond time resolution, has been widely adopted for active imaging applications. Long-range active imaging is a great challenge, because the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-31 Zheng-Ping Li , Xin Huang , Peng-Yu Jiang , Yu Hong , Chao Yu , Yuan Cao , Jun Zhang , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

We address a data augmentation problem for LiDAR. Given a LiDAR scan of a scene from some position, how can one simulate new scans of that scene from different, secondary positions? The method defines criteria for selecting valid secondary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xavier Morin-Duchesne , Michael S Langer

LiDAR and camera are two important sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Despite the increasing popularity of sensor fusion in this field, the robustness against inferior image conditions, e.g., bad illumination and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xuyang Bai , Zeyu Hu , Xinge Zhu , Qingqiu Huang , Yilun Chen , Hongbo Fu , Chiew-Lan Tai

We present a method for reconstructing 3D shape of arbitrary Lambertian objects based on measurements by miniature, energy-efficient, low-cost single-photon cameras. These cameras, operating as time resolved image sensors, illuminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Fangzhou Mu , Carter Sifferman , Sacha Jungerman , Yiquan Li , Mark Han , Michael Gleicher , Mohit Gupta , Yin Li

3D surface reconstruction is essential across applications of virtual reality, robotics, and mobile scanning. However, RGB-based reconstruction often fails in low-texture, low-light, and low-albedo scenes. Handheld LiDARs, now common on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Nikhil Behari , Aaron Young , Siddharth Somasundaram , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Akshat Dave , Ramesh Raskar

The ultimate goal of many image-based modeling systems is to render photo-realistic novel views of a scene without visible artifacts. Existing evaluation metrics and benchmarks focus mainly on the geometric accuracy of the reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Michael Waechter , Mate Beljan , Simon Fuhrmann , Nils Moehrle , Johannes Kopf , Michael Goesele

The development of large-scale 3D scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis methods mostly rely on datasets comprising perspective images with narrow fields of view (FoV). While effective for small-scale scenes, these datasets require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ulas Gunes , Matias Turkulainen , Xuqian Ren , Arno Solin , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu

Reconstructing the underlying 3D surface of an object from a single image is a challenging problem that has received extensive attention from the computer vision community. Many learning-based approaches tackle this problem by learning a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Nicolai Häni , Jun-Jee Chao , Volkan Isler

Atmospheric lidar observations provide a unique capability to directly observe the vertical column of cloud and aerosol scattering properties. Detector and solar background noise, however, hinder the ability of lidar systems to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Willem J. Marais , Robert E. Holz , Yu Hen Hu , Ralph E. Kuehn , Edwin E. Eloranta , Rebecca M. Willett

Transient measurements, captured by the timeresolved systems, are widely employed in photon-efficient reconstruction tasks, including line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging. However, challenges persist in their 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yue Li , Shida Sun , Yu Hong , Feihu Xu , Zhiwei Xiong

In this article we develop an image based rendering technique based on light field reconstruction from a limited set of perspective views acquired by cameras. Our approach utilizes sparse representation of epipolar-plane images in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Suren Vagharshakyan , Robert Bregovic , Atanas Gotchev

3D Lidar imaging can be a challenging modality when using multiple wavelengths, or when imaging in high noise environments (e.g., imaging through obscurants). This paper presents a hierarchical Bayesian algorithm for the robust…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Abderrahim Halimi , Aurora Maccarone , Robert Lamb , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen McLaughlin

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

In this paper, we present an algorithm for online 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes using individual times of arrival (ToA) of photons recorded by single-photon detector arrays. One of the main challenges in 3D imaging using single-photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Yoann Altmann , Stephen McLaughlin , Michael E. Davies

How can one efficiently generate high-quality, wide-scope 3D scenes from arbitrary single images? Existing methods suffer several drawbacks, such as requiring multi-view data, time-consuming per-scene optimization, distorted geometry in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hanwen Liang , Junli Cao , Vidit Goel , Guocheng Qian , Sergei Korolev , Demetri Terzopoulos , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

LiDAR scene synthesis is an emerging solution to scarcity in 3D data for robotic tasks such as autonomous driving. Recent approaches employ diffusion or flow matching models to generate realistic scenes, but 3D data remains limited compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nicolas Sereyjol-Garros , Ellington Kirby , Victor Besnier , Nermin Samet

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

Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which produce overly smooth reconstructions and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zerui Chen , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid

Light Field (LF) offers unique advantages such as post-capture refocusing and depth estimation, but low-light conditions limit these capabilities. To restore low-light LFs we should harness the geometric cues present in different LF views,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Mohit Lamba , Kranthi Kumar , Kaushik Mitra

Deploying advanced imaging solutions to robotic and autonomous systems by mimicking human vision requires simultaneous acquisition of multiple fields of views, named the peripheral and fovea regions. Low-resolution peripheral field provides…