An overview of depth cameras and range scanners based on time-of-flight technologies

R Horaud, M Hansard, G Evangelidis… - Machine vision and …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are sensors that can measure the depths of scene
points, by illuminating the scene with a controlled laser or LED source and then analyzing …

Lock-in time-of-flight (ToF) cameras: A survey

S Foix, G Alenya, C Torras - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews the state-of-the art in the field of lock-in time-of-flight (ToF) cameras, their
advantages, their limitations, the existing calibration methods, and the way they are being …

Image guided depth upsampling using anisotropic total generalized variation

D Ferstl, C Reinbacher, R Ranftl… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this work we present a novel method for the challenging problem of depth image
upsampling. Modern depth cameras such as Kinect or Time of Flight cameras deliver dense …

Time‐of‐flight cameras in computer graphics

A Kolb, E Barth, R Koch, R Larsen - Computer Graphics Forum, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A growing number of applications depend on accurate and fast 3D scene analysis.
Examples are model and lightfield acquisition, collision prevention, mixed reality and …

Optical techniques for 3D surface reconstruction in computer-assisted laparoscopic surgery

L Maier-Hein, P Mountney, A Bartoli, H Elhawary… - Medical image …, 2013 - Elsevier
One of the main challenges for computer-assisted surgery (CAS) is to determine the intra-
operative morphology and motion of soft-tissues. This information is prerequisite to the …

Fusion of time-of-flight depth and stereo for high accuracy depth maps

J Zhu, L Wang, R Yang, J Davis - 2008 IEEE conference on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-of-flight range sensors have error characteristics which are complementary to passive
stereo. They provide real time depth estimates in conditions where passive stereo does not …

Reliability fusion of time-of-flight depth and stereo geometry for high quality depth maps

J Zhu, L Wang, R Yang, JE Davis - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-of-flight range sensors have error characteristics, which are complementary to passive
stereo. They provide real-time depth estimates in conditions where passive stereo does not …

Real-time shading-based refinement for consumer depth cameras

C Wu, M Zollhöfer, M Nießner, M Stamminger… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
We present the first real-time method for refinement of depth data using shape-from-shading
in general uncontrolled scenes. Per frame, our real-time algorithm takes raw noisy depth …

Sparse depth super resolution

J Lu, D Forsyth - Proceedings of the IEEE conference on …, 2015 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We describe a method to produce detailed high resolution depth maps from aggressively
subsampled depth measurements. Our method fully uses the relationship between image …

Spatial-temporal fusion for high accuracy depth maps using dynamic MRFs

J Zhu, L Wang, J Gao, R Yang - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-of-flight range sensors and passive stereo have complimentary characteristics in
nature. To fuse them to get high accuracy depth maps varying over time, we extend …