Single-photon detection for long-range imaging and sensing

RH Hadfield, J Leach, F Fleming, DJ Paul, CH Tan… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Single-photon detectors with picosecond timing resolution have advanced rapidly in the past
decade. This has spurred progress in time-correlated single-photon counting applications …

Quantum-inspired computational imaging

Y Altmann, S McLaughlin, MJ Padgett, VK Goyal… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Imaging technologies, which extend human vision capabilities, are such a
natural part of our current everyday experience that we often take them for granted …

Real-time 3D reconstruction from single-photon lidar data using plug-and-play point cloud denoisers

J Tachella, Y Altmann, N Mellado, A McCarthy… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-photon lidar has emerged as a prime candidate technology for depth imaging
through challenging environments. Until now, a major limitation has been the significant …

[PDF][PDF] Single-photon 3D imaging with deep sensor fusion.

DB Lindell, M O'Toole, G Wetzstein - ACM Trans. Graph., 2018 - openreview.net
3D imaging systems provide scene information crucial for a diverse range of applications,
including autonomous vehicles, robotic vision, 3D object modeling, gesture recognition …

Submerged single-photon LiDAR imaging sensor used for real-time 3D scene reconstruction in scattering underwater environments

A Maccarone, K Drummond, A McCarthy… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a fully submerged underwater LiDAR transceiver system based on single-
photon detection technologies. The LiDAR imaging system used a silicon single-photon …

Robust real-time 3D imaging of moving scenes through atmospheric obscurant using single-photon LiDAR

R Tobin, A Halimi, A McCarthy, PJ Soan, GS Buller - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Recently, time-of-flight LiDAR using the single-photon detection approach has emerged as a
potential solution for three-dimensional imaging in challenging measurement scenarios …

Three-dimensional single-photon imaging through obscurants

R Tobin, A Halimi, A McCarthy, M Laurenzis… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the depth imaging of objects through various densities of different obscurants
(water fog, glycol-based vapor, and incendiary smoke) using a time-correlated single-photon …

Full waveform LiDAR for adverse weather conditions

AM Wallace, A Halimi, GS Buller - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present and discuss the case for full waveform pixel and image acquisition and
processing to enable LiDAR sensors to penetrate and reconstruct 3D surface maps through …

Three-dimensional imaging of stationary and moving targets in turbid underwater environments using a single-photon detector array

A Maccarone, F Mattioli Della Rocca, A McCarthy… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Three-dimensional imaging in underwater environments was investigated using a
picosecond resolution silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detector array …

Bayesian 3D reconstruction of complex scenes from single-photon lidar data

J Tachella, Y Altmann, X Ren, A McCarthy… - SIAM Journal on Imaging …, 2019 - SIAM
Light detection and ranging (Lidar) data can be used to capture the depth and intensity
profile of a 3D scene. This modality relies on constructing, for each pixel, a histogram of time …