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Time-of-flight (ToF) imaging has become a widespread technique for depth estimation, allowing affordable off-the-shelf cameras to provide depth maps in real time. However, multipath interference (MPI) resulting from indirect illumination…

Robust segmentation of hair from portrait images remains challenging: hair does not conform to a uniform shape, style or even color; dark hair in particular lacks features. We present a novel computational imaging solution that tackles the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuanxi Ma , Cen Wang , Shiying Li , Jingyi Yu

Blind deconvolution is a challenging problem, but in low-light it is even more difficult. Existing algorithms, both classical and deep-learning based, are not designed for this condition. When the photon shot noise is strong, conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Yash Sanghvi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Zhiyuan Mao , Stanley H. Chan

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

Deconvolution serves as a computational means of removing the effect of optical aberrations from recorded images and is employed in many technical and scientific fields of study. In most imaging scenarios the nature of the blurring kernel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-18 Dean Wilding , Oleg Soloviev , Paolo Pozzi , Carlas Smith , Gleb Vdovin , Michel Verhaegen

We propose a solution to the image deconvolution problem where the convolution kernel or point spread function (PSF) is assumed to be only partially known. Small perturbations generated from the model are exploited to produce a few…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-04 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero

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

In this paper, we propose a novel design of image deblurring in the form of one-shot convolution filtering that can directly convolve with naturally blurred images for restoration. The problem of optical blurring is a common disadvantage to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

We introduce Doppler time-of-flight (D-ToF) rendering, an extension of ToF rendering for dynamic scenes, with applications in simulating D-ToF cameras. D-ToF cameras use high-frequency modulation of illumination and exposure, and measure…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Juhyeon Kim , Wojciech Jarosz , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Adithya Pediredla

This paper presents a novel iToF-RGB fusion framework designed to address the inherent limitations of indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) depth sensing, such as low spatial resolution, limited field-of-view (FoV), and structural distortion in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yansong Du , Yutong Deng , Yuting Zhou , Feiyu Jiao , Jian Song , Xun Guan

Indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) cameras are a widespread type of 3D sensor, which perform multiple captures to obtain depth values of the captured scene. While recent approaches to correct iToF depths achieve high performance when removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Michael Schelling , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

We propose a novel compressed sensing method to improve the depth reconstruction accuracy and multi-target separation capability of indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) systems. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on hardware modifications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yansong Du , Yutong Deng , Yuting Zhou , Feiyu Jiao , Bangyao Wang , Zhancong Xu , Zhaoxiang Jiang , Xun Guan

Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors provide efficient active depth sensing at relatively low power budgets; among such designs, only very sparse measurements from low-resolution sensors are considered to meet the increasingly limited power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Andrea Conti , Matteo Poggi , Valerio Cambareri , Martin R. Oswald , Stefano Mattoccia

Depth images captured by Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors are prone to noise, requiring denoising for reliable downstream applications. Previous works either focus on single-frame processing, or perform multi-frame processing without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Weida Wang , Changyong He , Jin Zeng , Di Qiu

We introduce pulsed correlation time-of-flight (PC-ToF) sensing, a new operation mode for correlation time-of-flight range sensors that combines a sub-nanosecond laser pulse source with a rectangular demodulation at the sensor side. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Sebastian Werner , Henrik Schäfer , Matthias Hullin

Light scattering by tissue severely limits how deep beneath the surface one can image, and the spatial resolution one can obtain from these images. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is one of the most powerful techniques for imaging deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-31 Yongyi Zhao , Ankit Raghuram , Hyun K. Kim , Andreas H. Hielscher , Jacob T. Robinson , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are subject to high levels of noise and distortions due to Multi-Path-Interference (MPI). While recent research showed that 2D neural networks are able to outperform previous traditional State-of-the-Art (SOTA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Michael Schelling , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Transient imaging or light-in-flight techniques capture the propagation of an ultra-short pulse of light through a scene, which in effect captures the optical impulse response of the scene. Recently, it has been shown that we can capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Ryuichi Tadano , Adithya Kumar Pediredla , Kaushik Mitra , Ashok Veeraraghavan

We present a novel spatio-temporal reuse framework for time-resolved light transport, enabling efficient Monte Carlo rendering of time-of-flight (ToF) phenomena such as time-gated imaging and transient light capture. Existing ToF rendering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Juhyeon Kim , Wojciech Jarosz , Adithya Pediredla