A review of indirect time-of-flight technologies

C Bamji, J Godbaz, M Oh, S Mehta… - … on Electron Devices, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Indirect time-of-flight (iToF) cameras operate by illuminating a scene with modulated light
and inferring depth at each pixel by combining the back-reflected light with different gating …

Survey and analysis of multimodal sensor planning and integration for wide area surveillance

BR Abidi, NR Aragam, Y Yao, MA Abidi - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Although sensor planning in computer vision has been a subject of research for over two
decades, a vast majority of the research seems to concentrate on two particular applications …

Effects of target shape and reflection on laser radar cross sections

O Steinvall - Applied optics, 2000 - opg.optica.org
Laser radar cross sections have been evaluated for a number of ideal targets such as cones,
spheres, paraboloids, and cylinders by use of different reflection characteristics. The time …

Triangular-range-intensity profile spatial-correlation method for 3D super-resolution range-gated imaging

W Xinwei, L Youfu, Z Yan - Applied optics, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We present a triangular-range-intensity profile (RIP) spatial-correlation method for 3D range-
gated imaging with a depth of super resolution. In this method, spatial sampling volumes …

Nonline-of-sight laser gated viewing of scattered photons

M Laurenzis, A Velten - Optical Engineering, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Laser gated viewing is a prominent sensing technology for optical imaging in harsh
environments and can be applied for vision through fog, smoke, and other degraded …

Switchable induced-transmission filters enabled by vanadium dioxide

C Wan, D Woolf, CM Hessel, J Salman, Y Xiao… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
An induced-transmission filter (ITF) uses an ultrathin metallic layer positioned at an electric-
field node within a dielectric thin-film bandpass filter to select one transmission band while …

Active imaging through dense fog by utilizing the joint polarization defogging and denoising optimization based on range-gated detection

F Huang, S Qiu, H Liu, Y Liu, P Wang - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Imaging through the scattering medium, such as fog, is important for military and civilian
applications. However, the fog concentration restricts the current defogging methods; the …

Radiometry and contrast-to-noise ratio for continuous-wave and laser range-gated active imaging systems

J Follansbee, D Burrell, O Furxhi, CK Renshaw… - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Resolution and sensitivity must be considered in the design of an active imaging system.
System sensitivity is characterized by the signal-to-noise or contrast-to-noise ratio and is …

Pulse-shape-free method for long-range three-dimensional active imaging with high linear accuracy

Z Xiuda, Y Huimin, J Yanbing - Optics letters, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We present a three-dimensional (3D) imaging method employing linear increasing gain to
encode flying time of photons into intensity information. This method obtains both the …

Influence of gating and of the gate shape on the penetration capacity of range-gated active imaging in scattering environments

F Christnacher, S Schertzer, N Metzger, E Bacher… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Range-gated active imaging is a well-known technique used for night vision or for vision
enhancement in scattering environments. A lot of papers have been published, in which the …