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Applications · Statistics 2026-03-12 Dongeek Shin , Ahmed Kirmani , Vivek K Goyal , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Single-pixel imaging, originally developed in light optics, facilitates fast three-dimensional sample reconstruction, as well as probing with light wavelengths undetectable by conventional multi-pixel detectors. However, the spatial…

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are becoming popular in time-of-flight depth-ranging due to their unique ability to capture individual photons with picosecond timing resolution. However, ambient light (e.g., sunlight) incident on a…

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The potential of photon detectors to achieve precise timing information is of increasing importance in many domains, PET and CT scanners in medical imaging and particle physics detectors, amongst others. The goal to increase by an order of…

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Recently, there has been increased attention towards 3D imaging using single-pixel single-photon detection (also known as temporal data) due to its potential advantages in terms of cost and power efficiency. However, to eliminate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Tingqin Lai , Xiaolin Liang , Yi Zhu , Xinyi Wu , Lianye Liao , Xuelin Yuan , Ping Su , Shihai Sun

Photon counting 3D imaging allows to obtain 3D images with single-photon sensitivity and sub-ns temporal resolution. However, it is challenging to scale to high spatial resolution. In this work, we demonstrate a photon counting 3D imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Huidong Dai , Weiji He , Guohua Gu , Ling Ye , Tianyi Mao , Qian Chen

3D single-photon LiDAR imaging has an important role in many applications. However, full deployment of this modality will require the analysis of low signal to noise ratio target returns and a very high volume of data. This is particularly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Mohamed Amir Alaa Belmekki , Jonathan Leach , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen Mclaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

A multi-pixel photon sensor with single-photon sensitivity has been developed, based on a technology of a hybrid photo-detector (HPD) consisting of a photocathode and a multi-pixel avalanche diode (MP-AD). The developed HPD has a proximity…

Traditional CMOS sensors suffer from restricted dynamic range and sub optimal performance under extreme lighting conditions. They are affected by electronic noise in low light conditions and pixel saturation while capturing high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Sumit Sharma , Girish Rongali , Kaushik Mitra

Our work addresses the problem of egocentric human pose estimation from downwards-facing cameras on head-mounted devices (HMD). This presents a challenging scenario, as parts of the body often fall outside of the image or are occluded.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Hanz Cuevas-Velasquez , Charlie Hewitt , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Tadas Baltrušaitis

Single-Photon Avalanche Detector (SPAD) arrays are a rapidly emerging technology. These multi-pixel sensors have single-photon sensitivities and pico-second temporal resolutions thus they can rapidly generate depth images with millimeter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Stirling Scholes , Germán Mora-Martín , Feng Zhu , Istvan Gyongy , Phil Soan , Jonathan Leach

Single pixel imaging (SPI) is a novel technique being able to capture 2D images using a bucket detector with high signal-to-noise ratio, wide spectrum range and low cost. Conventional SPI projects random illumination patterns to randomly…

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Efficient simulation of photon registrations in single-photon LiDAR (SPL) is essential for applications such as depth estimation under high-flux conditions, where hardware dead time significantly distorts photon measurements. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Weijian Zhang , Hashan K. Weerasooriya , Stanley Chan

In this paper, we present a novel Bayesian approach for estimating spectral and range profiles from single-photon Lidar waveforms associated with single surfaces in the photon-limited regime. In contrast to classical multispectral Lidar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Quentin Legros , Sylvain Meignen , Stephen McLaughlin , Yoann Altmann

We show a simple yet effective method that can be used to characterize the per pixel quantum efficiency and temporal resolution of a single photon event camera for quantum imaging applications. Utilizing photon pairs generated through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Victor Vidyapin , Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

We present a new algorithm for single camera 3D reconstruction, or 3D input for human-computer interfaces, based on precise tracking of an elongated object, such as a pen, having a pattern of colored bands. To configure the system, the user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Bernard Llanos , Yee-Hong Yang

3D time-of-flight (ToF) imaging is used in a variety of applications such as augmented reality (AR), computer interfaces, robotics and autonomous systems. Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are one of the enabling technologies providing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Germán Mora-Martín , Alex Turpin , Alice Ruget , Abderrahim Halimi , Robert Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

3D photography is a new medium that allows viewers to more fully experience a captured moment. In this work, we refer to a 3D photo as one that displays parallax induced by moving the viewpoint (as opposed to a stereo pair with a fixed…

Scene reconstruction in the presence of high-speed motion and low illumination is important in many applications such as augmented and virtual reality, drone navigation, and autonomous robotics. Traditional motion estimation techniques fail…

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