Abstract Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) is key to modeling the interaction between light
and materials and finds extensive applications across computer graphics domains. However …

The past few years have witnessed an increasing interest in improving the perception
performance of LiDARs on autonomous vehicles. While most of the existing works focus on …

Light curtain systems are designed for detecting the presence of objects within a user-
defined 3D region of space, which has many applications across vision and robotics …

Active depth sensing achieves robust depth estimation but is usually limited by the sensing
range. Naively increasing the optical power can improve sensing range but induces eye …

We present a proof-of-concept LIDAR design that allows adaptive real-time measurements
according to dynamically specified measurement patterns. We describe our optical setup …

Typical projectors are designed to programmably display 2D content at a single depth. In
this work, we explore how to engineer a depth-varying projector system that is capable of …

Most real-world 3D sensors such as LiDARs perform fixed scans of the entire environment,
while being decoupled from the recognition system that processes the sensor data. In this …

Active sensing through the use of Adaptive Depth Sensors is a nascent field, with potential in
areas such as Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). They do however require …

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras have seen widespread adoption in recent years across the
entire spectrum of commodity devices. However, these devices are fundamentally limited by …

To navigate in an environment safely and autonomously, robots must accurately estimate
where obstacles are and how they move. Instead of using expensive traditional 3D sensors …