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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

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 of objects not visible to either the camera or illumination source is a challenging task with vital applications including surveillance and robotics. Recent NLOS reconstruction advances have been achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Sreenithy Chandran , Suren Jayasuriya

Conventional imaging only records photons directly sent from the object to the detector, while non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging takes the indirect light into account. Most NLOS solutions employ a transient scanning process, followed by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Dayu Zhu , Wenshan Cai

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is based on capturing the multi-bounce indirect reflections from the hidden objects. Active NLOS imaging systems rely on the capture of the time of flight of light through the scene, and have shown great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Jiayong Peng , Fangzhou Mu , Ji Hyun Nam , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Yin Li , Andreas Velten , Zhiwei Xiong

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

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging with intelligent sensors emerges as a novel technique in imaging and sensing occluded objects around corners. With the innovation of bio-inspired neuromorphic sensors, the applications of novel sensors in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-15 Conghe Wang , Xia Wang , Yujie Fang , Changda Yan , Xin Zhang , Yifan Zuo

Conventional intensity cameras recover objects in the direct line-of-sight of the camera, whereas occluded scene parts are considered lost in this process. Non-line-of-sight imaging (NLOS) aims at recovering these occluded objects by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Wenzheng Chen , Simon Daneau , Fahim Mannan , Felix Heide

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging enables the visualization of objects hidden from direct view, with applications in surveillance, remote sensing, and light detection and ranging. Here, we introduce a NLOS imaging technique termed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Pengming Song , Qianhao Zhao , Ruihai Wang , Ninghe Liu , Yingqi Qiang , Tianbo Wang , Xincheng Zhang , Yi Zhang , Guoan Zheng

The ability to form non-line-of-sight (NLOS) images of changing scenes could be transformative in a variety of fields, including search and rescue, autonomous vehicle navigation, and reconnaissance. Most existing active NLOS methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Sheila Seidel , Hoover Rueda-Chacon , Iris Cusini , Federica Villa , Franco Zappa , Christopher Yu , Vivek K Goyal

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging reconstructs the shape and depth of hidden objects from picosecond-resolved transient signals, offering potential applications in autonomous driving, security, and medical diagnostics. However, current NLOS…

As an emerging technology that has attracted huge attention, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging can reconstruct hidden objects by analyzing the diffuse reflection on a relay surface, with broad application prospects in the fields of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Ruixu Geng , Yang Hu , Yan Chen

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is an emerging technique for detecting objects behind obstacles or around corners. Recent studies on passive NLOS mainly focus on steady-state measurement and reconstruction methods, which show limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Conghe Wang , Yutong He , Xia Wang , Honghao Huang , Changda Yan , Xin Zhang , Hongwei Chen

The rise of portable Lidar instruments, including their adoption in smartphones, opens the door to novel computational imaging techniques. Being an active sensing instrument, Lidar can provide complementary data to passive optical sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ziyao Yi , Diego Valsesia , Tiziano Bianchi , Enrico Magli

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging aims at recovering the 3D geometry of objects that are hidden from the direct line of sight. In the past, this method has suffered from the weak available multibounce signal limiting scene size, capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ji Hyun Nam , Eric Brandt , Sebastian Bauer , Xiaochun Liu , Eftychios Sifakis , Andreas Velten

Vehicles, search and rescue personnel, and endoscopes use flash lights to locate, identify, and view objects in their surroundings. Here we show the first steps of how all these tasks can be done around corners with consumer cameras. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Matthew Tancik , Guy Satat , Ramesh Raskar

Conventionally, human intuition defines vision as a modality of passive optical sensing, relying on ambient light to perceive the environment. However, active optical sensing, which involves emitting and receiving signals, offers unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wei Gao , Jie Zhang , Mingle Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shu Kong , Maani Ghaffari , Dezhen Song , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Hui Kong

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging and tracking is an emerging technology that allows the shape or position of objects around corners or behind diffusers to be recovered from transient, time-of-flight measurements. However, existing NLOS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Christopher A. Metzler , David B. Lindell , Gordon Wetzstein

Imaging objects obscured by occluders is a significant challenge for many applications. A camera that could "see around corners" could help improve navigation and mapping capabilities of autonomous vehicles or make search and rescue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Felix Heide , Matthew O'Toole , Kai Zang , David Lindell , Steven Diamond , Gordon Wetzstein

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging allows to observe objects partially or fully occluded from direct view, by analyzing indirect diffuse reflections off a secondary, relay surface. Despite its many potential applications, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Xiaochun Liu , Ibón Guillén , Marco La Manna , Ji Hyun Nam , Syed Azer Reza , Toan Huu Le , Diego Gutierrez , Adrian Jarabo , Andreas Velten
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