Advances in single-photon lidar for autonomous vehicles: Working principles, challenges, and recent advances

J Rapp, J Tachella, Y Altmann… - IEEE Signal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The safety and success of autonomous vehicles (AVs) depend on their ability to accurately
map and respond to their surroundings in real time. One of the most promising recent …

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 …

Physics-based noise modeling for extreme low-light photography

K Wei, Y Fu, Y Zheng, J Yang - IEEE Transactions on Pattern …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Enhancing the visibility in extreme low-light environments is a challenging task. Under
nearly lightless condition, existing image denoising methods could easily break down due to …

Learned feature embeddings for non-line-of-sight imaging and recognition

W Chen, F Wei, KN Kutulakos, S Rusinkiewicz… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Objects obscured by occluders are considered lost in the images acquired by conventional
camera systems, prohibiting both visualization and understanding of such hidden objects …

Non-line-of-sight imaging with partial occluders and surface normals

F Heide, M O'Toole, K Zang, DB Lindell… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Imaging objects obscured by occluders is a significant challenge for many applications. A
camera that could “see around corners” could help improve navigation and map** …

CASPI: collaborative photon processing for active single-photon imaging

J Lee, A Ingle, JV Chacko, KW Eliceiri… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Image sensors capable of capturing individual photons have made tremendous progress in
recent years. However, this technology faces a major limitation. Because they capture scene …

High-flux single-photon lidar

J Rapp, Y Ma, RMA Dawson, VK Goyal - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC), photons that arrive during the detector
and timing electronics dead times are missed, causing distortion of the detection time …

Transient neural radiance fields for lidar view synthesis and 3d reconstruction

A Malik, P Mirdehghan, S Nousias… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have become a ubiquitous tool for modeling scene
appearance and geometry from multiview imagery. Recent work has also begun to explore …

Computational imaging and artificial intelligence: The next revolution of mobile vision

J Suo, W Zhang, J Gong, X Yuan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Signal capture is at the forefront of perceiving and understanding the environment; thus,
imaging plays a pivotal role in mobile vision. Recent unprecedented progress in artificial …

Asynchronous single-photon 3D imaging

A Gupta, A Ingle, M Gupta - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are becoming popular in time-of-flight depth-
ranging due to their unique ability to capture individual photons with picosecond timing …