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Depth map enhancement using paired high-resolution RGB images offers a cost-effective solution for improving low-resolution depth data from lightweight ToF sensors. Nevertheless, naively adopting a depth estimation pipeline to fuse the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Laiyan Ding , Hualie Jiang , Jiwei Chen , Rui Huang

Time of Flight (ToF) is a prevalent depth sensing technology in the fields of robotics, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing. Yet, ToF sensing faces challenges from complex ambient conditions making an inverse modelling from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Christopher Hahne , Michel Hayoz , Raphael Sznitman

The combination of range sensors with color cameras can be very useful for robot navigation, semantic perception, manipulation, and telepresence. Several methods of combining range- and color-data have been investigated and successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Vineet Gandhi , Jan Cech , Radu Horaud

We present a novel method to correct flying pixels within data captured by Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors. Flying pixel (FP) artifacts occur when signals from foreground and background objects reach the same sensor pixel, leading to a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Ekamresh Vasudevan , Shashank N. Sridhara , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega , Raghavendra Singh , Srinath Kalluri

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 (I-ToF) imaging is a widespread way of depth estimation for mobile devices due to its small size and affordable price. Previous works have mainly focused on quality improvement for I-ToF imaging especially curing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 HyunJun Jung , Nikolas Brasch , Ales Leonardis , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

High-accuracy per-pixel depth is vital for computational photography, so smartphones now have multimodal camera systems with time-of-flight (ToF) depth sensors and multiple color cameras. However, producing accurate high-resolution depth is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Andreas Meuleman , Hakyeong Kim , James Tompkin , Min H. Kim

Indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) cameras are a promising depth sensing technology. However, they are prone to errors caused by multi-path interference (MPI) and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Traditional methods, after denoising, mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Felipe Gutierrez-Barragan , Huaijin Chen , Mohit Gupta , Andreas Velten , Jinwei Gu

We introduce Mask-ToF, a method to reduce flying pixels (FP) in time-of-flight (ToF) depth captures. FPs are pervasive artifacts which occur around depth edges, where light paths from both an object and its background are integrated over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Ilya Chugunov , Seung-Hwan Baek , Qiang Fu , Wolfgang Heidrich , Felix Heide

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

Existing depth completion methods are often targeted at a specific sparse depth type and generalize poorly across task domains. We present a method to complete sparse/semi-dense, noisy, and potentially low-resolution depth maps obtained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Guangkai Xu , Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Jia-Wang Bian

Direct time-of-flight (dToF) sensors are promising for next-generation on-device 3D sensing. However, limited by manufacturing capabilities in a compact module, the dToF data has a low spatial resolution (e.g., $\sim 20\times30$ for iPhone…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Zhanghao Sun , Wei Ye , Jinhui Xiong , Gyeongmin Choe , Jialiang Wang , Shuochen Su , Rakesh Ranjan

We propose a novel approach to recovering the translucent objects from a single time-of-flight (ToF) depth camera using deep residual networks. When recording the translucent objects using the ToF depth camera, their depth values are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Seongjong Song , Hyunjung Shim

Long-distance depth imaging holds great promise for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Direct time-of-flight (dToF) imaging offers high-precision, long-distance depth sensing, yet demands ultra-short pulse light sources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Manchao Bao , Shengjiang Fang , Tao Yue , Xuemei Hu

Neural networks can represent and accurately reconstruct radiance fields for static 3D scenes (e.g., NeRF). Several works extend these to dynamic scenes captured with monocular video, with promising performance. However, the monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Benjamin Attal , Eliot Laidlaw , Aaron Gokaslan , Changil Kim , Christian Richardt , James Tompkin , Matthew O'Toole

The raw depth images captured by RGB-D cameras using Time-of-Flight (TOF) or structured light often suffer from incomplete depth values due to weak reflections, boundary shadows, and artifacts, which limit their applications in downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zihui Zhao , Yifei Zhang , Zheng Wang , Yang Li , Kui Jiang , Zihan Geng , Chia-Wen Lin

Depth images have a wide range of applications, such as 3D reconstruction, autonomous driving, augmented reality, robot navigation, and scene understanding. Commodity-grade depth cameras are hard to sense depth for bright, glossy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kailai Sun , Zhou Yang , Qianchuan Zhao

Time-of-flight (ToF) sensors provide an imaging modality fueling diverse applications, including LiDAR in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality. Conventional ToF imaging methods estimate the depth by sending pulses of light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

Time of Flight ToF cameras renowned for their ability to capture realtime 3D information have become indispensable for agile mobile robotics These cameras utilize light signals to accurately measure distances enabling robots to navigate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Yuke Cai , Davide Plozza , Steven Marty , Paul Joseph , Michele Magno

Range images captured by Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras are corrupted with multipath distortions due to interaction between modulated light signals and scenes. The interaction is often complicated, which makes a model-based solution elusive.…

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