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We consider the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging of an object using the light reflected off a diffusive wall. The wall scatters incident light such that a lens is no longer useful to form an image. Instead, we exploit the 4D spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Andre Beckus , Alexandru Tamasan , George K. Atia

Non-invasive detection of objects embedded inside an optically scattering medium is essential for numerous applications in engineering and sciences. However, in most applications light at visible or near-infrared wavebands is scattered by…

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging seeks to reconstruct hidden objects by analyzing reflections from intermediary surfaces. Existing methods typically model both the measurement data and the hidden scene in three dimensions, overlooking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yijun Wei , Jianyu Wang , Leping Xiao , Zuoqiang Shi , Xing Fu , Lingyun Qiu

Active imaging systems sample the Transient Light Transport Matrix (TLTM) for a scene by sequentially illuminating various positions in this scene using a controllable light source, and then measuring the resulting spatiotemporal light…

Passive Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) imaging requires to reconstruct objects which cannot be seen in line without using external controllable light sources. It can be widely applied in areas like counter-terrorism, urban-Warfare,…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-02 Yunting Gui , Yuegang Fu , Xueming Xiao , Meibao Yao

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

In this paper, we propose a 3D LiDAR aided global navigation satellite system (GNSS) non-line-of-sight (NLOS) mitigation method caused by both static buildings and dynamic objects. A sliding window map describing the surrounding of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Weisong Wen , Li-Ta Hsu

Real time, high resolution 3D reconstruction of scenes hidden from the direct field of view is a challenging field of research with applications in real-life situations related e.g. to surveillance, self-driving cars and rescue missions.…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-24 G. Musarra , A. Lyons , E. Conca , Y. Altmann , F. Villa , F. Zappa , M. J. Padgett , D. Faccio

Perception in 3D has become standard practice for a large part of robotics applications. High quality 3D perception is costly. Our previous work on a nodding 2D Lidar provides high quality 3D depth information with low cost, but the sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Anindya Harchowdhury , Lindsay Kleeman , Leena Vachhani

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

Emerging single-photon-sensitive sensors combined with advanced inverse methods to process picosecond-accurate time-stamped photon counts have given rise to unprecedented imaging capabilities. Rather than imaging photons that travel along…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-19 D. Faccio , A. Velten , G. Wetzstein

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

LiDAR sensors can be used to obtain a wide range of measurement signals other than a simple 3D point cloud, and those signals can be leveraged to improve perception tasks like 3D object detection. A single laser pulse can be partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yunze Man , Xinshuo Weng , Prasanna Kumar Sivakuma , Matthew O'Toole , Kris Kitani

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) sensing has the potential to enable use cases like intrusion detection in occluded areas, increasing the value provided by Integrated Sensing and Commu- nications (ISAC) in future 6G cellular networks. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Paolo Tosi , Maximilian Bauhofer , Marcus Henninger , Laurent Schmalen , Silvio Mandelli

LiDAR (laser based radar) systems are a major part of many new real-world interactive systems, one of the most notable being autonomous cars. The current market LiDAR systems are limited by detector sensitivity: when output power is at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Yoni Sher , Lior Cohen , Daniel Istrati , Hagai S. Eisenberg

LiDAR has become one of the primary sensors in robotics and autonomous system for high-accuracy situational awareness. In recent years, multi-modal LiDAR systems emerged, and among them, LiDAR-as-a-camera sensors provide not only 3D point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Iacopo Catalano , Jorge Pena Queralta , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

Passive non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging has witnessed rapid development in recent years, due to its ability to image objects that are out of sight. The light transport condition plays an important role in this task since changing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jiarui Zhang , Ruixu Geng , Xiaolong Du , Yan Chen , Houqiang Li , Yang Hu

Sensing in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is one of the major challenges for integrated sensing and communication systems. Existing countermeasures for NLOS either use prior knowledge on the environment to characterize all the multiple bounces or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Davide Tornielli Bellini , Dario Tagliaferri , Pietro Grassi , Davide Scazzoli , Stefano Tebaldini , Umberto Spagnolini

This paper presents a novel indoor layout estimation system based on the fusion of 2D LiDAR and intensity camera data. A ground robot explores an indoor space with a single floor and vertical walls, and collects a sequence of intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jieyu Li , Robert Stevenson

As an emerging technology and a relatively affordable device, the 4D imaging radar has already been confirmed effective in performing 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, the sparsity and noisiness of 4D radar point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Weiyi Xiong , Jianan Liu , Tao Huang , Qing-Long Han , Yuxuan Xia , Bing Zhu