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Depth completion from RGB images and sparse Time-of-Flight (ToF) measurements is an important problem in computer vision and robotics. While traditional methods for depth completion have relied on stereo vision or structured light…

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…

3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) image sensors are used widely in applications such as self-driving cars, Augmented Reality (AR) and robotics. When implemented with Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs), compact, array format sensors can be made…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Germán Mora Martín , Stirling Scholes , Alice Ruget , Robert K. Henderson , Jonathan Leach , Istvan Gyongy

Time of flight cameras may emerge as the 3-D sensor of choice. Today, time of flight sensors use phase-based sampling, where the phase delay between emitted and received, high-frequency signals encodes distance. In this paper, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-11 Achuta Kadambi , Vage Taamazyan , Suren Jayasuriya , Ramesh Raskar

In this paper, a novel amplitude-modulated continuous wave (AMCW) time-of-flight (ToF) scanning sensor based on digital-parallel demodulation is proposed and demonstrated in the aspect of distance measurement precision. Since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Sung-Hyun Lee , Wook-Hyeon Kwon , Yoon-Seop Lim , Yong-Hwa Park

Blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering a sharp image and a blur kernel from a noisy blurry image. Recently, there has been a significant effort on understanding the basic mechanisms to solve blind deconvolution. While this effort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Daniele Perrone , Paolo Favaro

Light-weight time-of-flight (ToF) depth sensors are compact and cost-efficient, and thus widely used on mobile devices for tasks such as autofocus and obstacle detection. However, due to the sparse and noisy depth measurements, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xinyang Liu , Yijin Li , Yanbin Teng , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Yinda Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Time-of-flight (ToF) devices have greatly propelled the advancement of various multi-modal perception applications. However, achieving accurate rendering of time-resolved information remains a challenge, particularly in scenes involving…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Qianyue He , Dongyu Du , Haitian Jiang , Xin Jin

Time-of-flight (TOF) information provides more accurate location data for annihilation photons, thereby enhancing the quality of PET reconstruction images and reducing noise. List-mode reconstruction has a significant advantage in handling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-16 Rui Hu , Chenxu Li , Kun Tian , Jianan Cui , Yunmei Chen , Huafeng Liu

Sparse active illumination enables precise time-of-flight depth sensing as it maximizes signal-to-noise ratio for low power budgets. However, depth completion is required to produce dense depth maps for 3D perception. We address this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xiaowen Jiang , Valerio Cambareri , Gianluca Agresti , Cynthia Ifeyinwa Ugwu , Adriano Simonetto , Fabien Cardinaux , Pietro Zanuttigh

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

The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects occluded from the camera's field of view using multiply scattered light. Recent works have demonstrated the feasibility of two-bounce (2B) NLOS imaging by scanning a laser and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Siddharth Somasundaram , Akshat Dave , Connor Henley , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ramesh Raskar

The resolving ability of widefield fluorescence microscopy is fundamentally limited by out-of-focus background owing to its low axial resolution, particularly for densely labeled biological samples. Although total internal reflection…

We perform a parametric study of the newly developed time-of-flight (TOF) image reconstruction algorithm, proposed for the real-time imaging in total-body Jagiellonian PET (J-PET) scanners. The asymmetric 3D filtering kernel is applied at…

We propose a deconvolution algorithm for images blurred and degraded by a Poisson noise. The algorithm uses a fast proximal backward-forward splitting iteration. This iteration minimizes an energy which combines a \textit{non-linear} data…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean Luc Starck

We propose a computational model for shape, illumination and albedo inference in a pulsed time-of-flight (TOF) camera. In contrast to TOF cameras based on phase modulation, our camera enables general exposure profiles. This results in added…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Amit Adam , Christoph Dann , Omer Yair , Shai Mazor , Sebastian Nowozin

Accurate reconstruction of 2D and 3D isotope densities is a desired capability with great potential impact in applications such as evaluation and development of next-generation nuclear fuels. Neutron time-of-flight (TOF) resonance imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Thilo Balke , Alexander M. Long , Sven C. Vogel , Brendt Wohlberg , Charles A. Bouman

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

Medical ultrasound provides images which are the spatial map of the tissue echogenicity. Unfortunately, an ultrasound image is a low-quality version of the expected Tissue Reflectivity Function (TRF) mainly due to the non-ideal Point Spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Sobhan Goudarzi , Hassan Rivaz

The recovery of Dirac impulses, or spikes, from filtered measurements is a classical problem in signal processing. As the spikes lie in the continuous domain while measurements are discrete, this task is known as super-resolution or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ruiming Guo , Ayush Bhandari