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Conventional sensor systems record information about directly visible objects, whereas occluded scene components are considered lost in the measurement process. Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) methods try to recover such hidden objects from their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Nicolas Scheiner , Florian Kraus , Fangyin Wei , Buu Phan , Fahim Mannan , Nils Appenrodt , Werner Ritter , Jürgen Dickmann , Klaus Dietmayer , Bernhard Sick , Felix Heide

The acquisition of objects outside the Line-of-Sight of cameras is a very intriguing but also extremely challenging research topic. Recent works showed the feasibility of this idea exploiting transient imaging data produced by custom direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Matteo Caligiuri , Adriano Simonetto , Pietro Zanuttigh

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is conducted to infer invisible scenes from indirect light on visible objects. The neural transient field (NeTF) was proposed for representing scenes as neural radiance fields in NLOS scenes. We propose NLOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuki Fujimura , Takahiro Kushida , Takuya Funatomi , Yasuhiro Mukaigawa

Non-line-of-sight reconstruction (NLoS) is a novel indirect imaging modality that aims to recover objects or scene parts outside the field of view from measurements of light that is indirectly scattered off a directly visible, diffuse wall.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Javier Grau , Markus Plack , Patrick Haehn , Michael Weinmann , Matthias Hullin

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) optical imaging and sensing of objects imply new capabilities valuable to autonomous technology, machine vision, and other applications. Existing NLOS imaging methods rely heavily on the prowess of computational…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-21 Shenyu Zhu , Yong Meng Sua , Patrick Rehain , Yu-Ping Huang

The study of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is growing due to its many potential applications, including rescue operations and pedestrian detection by self-driving cars. However, implementing NLOS imaging on a moving camera remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shenbagaraj Kannapiran , Sreenithy Chandran , Suren Jayasuriya , Spring Berman

LiDARs are being increasingly deployed for consumer imaging in handheld, wearable, and robotic applications. These sensors can capture the time-of-flight of light at picosecond resolution, which in principle, enables them to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Siddharth Somasundaram , Aaron Young , Akshat Dave , Adithya Pediredla , Ramesh Raskar

Time of flight based Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging approaches require precise calibration of illumination and detector positions on the visible scene to produce reasonable results. If this calibration error is sufficiently high,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Subhash Chandra Sadhu , Abhishek Singh , Tomohiro Maeda , Tristan Swedish , Ryan Kim , Lagnojita Sinha , Ramesh Raskar

Consumer LiDARs in mobile devices and robots typically output a single depth value per pixel. Yet internally, they record full time-resolved histograms containing direct and multi-bounce light returns; these multi-bounce returns encode rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nikhil Behari , Diego Rivero , Luke Apostolides , Suman Ghosh , Paul Pu Liang , Ramesh Raskar

Seeing around corners, also known as non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is a computational method to resolve or recover objects hidden around corners. Recent advances in imaging around corners have gained significant interest. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Tomohiro Maeda , Guy Satat , Tristan Swedish , Lagnojita Sinha , Ramesh Raskar

We present a neural modeling framework for Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging. Previous solutions have sought to explicitly recover the 3D geometry (e.g., as point clouds) or voxel density (e.g., within a pre-defined volume) of the hidden…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Siyuan Shen , Zi Wang , Ping Liu , Zhengqing Pan , Ruiqian Li , Tian Gao , Shiying Li , Jingyi Yu

We describe a method for 3D human pose estimation from transient images (i.e., a 3D spatio-temporal histogram of photons) acquired by an optical non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging system. Our method can perceive 3D human pose by `looking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mariko Isogawa , Ye Yuan , Matthew O'Toole , Kris Kitani

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging, recovering the hidden volume from indirect reflections, has attracted increasing attention due to its potential applications. Despite promising results, existing NLOS reconstruction approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shida Sun , Yue Li , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) tracking has drawn increasing attention in recent years, due to its ability to detect object motion out of sight. Most previous works on NLOS tracking rely on active illumination, e.g., laser, and suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yihao Wang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Dong Wang , Mulin Chen , Xuelong Li

Efficient exploration and mapping in unknown indoor environments is a fundamental challenge, with high stakes in time-critical settings. In current systems, robot perception remains confined to line-of-sight; occluded regions remain unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kush Garg , Akshat Dave

A deep learning based non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging system is developed to image an occluded object off a scattering surface. The neural net is trained using only handwritten digits, and yet exhibits capability to reconstruct patterns…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Chen Zhou , Cheng-Yu Wang , Zhiwen Liu

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging allows for the imaging of objects around a corner, which enables potential applications in various fields such as autonomous driving, robotic vision, medical imaging, security monitoring, etc. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Duolan Huang , Quan Chen , Zhun Wei , Rui Chen

Robust autonomous navigation in environments with limited visibility remains a critical challenge in robotics. We present a novel approach that leverages Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) sensing using single-photon LiDAR to improve visibility and…

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

Active non-line-of-sight imaging systems are of growing interest for diverse applications. The most commonly proposed approaches to date rely on exploiting time-resolved measurements, i.e., measuring the time it takes for short light pulses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-20 Christos Thrampoulidis , Gal Shulkind , Feihu Xu , William T. Freeman , Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Antonio Torralba , Franco N. C. Wong , Gregory W. Wornell