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 …

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 …

Evaluating the accuracy of the azure kinect and kinect v2

G Kurillo, E Hemingway, ML Cheng, L Cheng - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Azure Kinect represents the latest generation of Microsoft Kinect depth cameras. Of
interest in this article is the depth and spatial accuracy of the Azure Kinect and how it …

IMpixel 65nm BSI 320MHz demodulated TOF Image sensor with 3μm global shutter pixels and analog binning

CS Bamji, S Mehta, B Thompson… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The quest for accurate, high-resolution, low-power-consumption, and small-footprint 3D
depth cameras has driven a rapid improvement in Continuous-Wave (CW) Time-of-Flight …

A 64 64-Pixels Digital Silicon Photomultiplier Direct TOF Sensor With 100-MPhotons/s/pixel Background Rejection and Imaging/Altimeter Mode With 0.14 …

M Perenzoni, D Perenzoni… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a 64× 64-pixel 3-D imager based on single-photon avalanche diodes
(SPADs) for long-range applications, such as spacecraft navigation and landing. Each 60 …

The xbox one system on a chip and kinect sensor

J Sell, P O'Connor - IEEE Micro, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The system on a chip (SoC) at the heart of the Xbox One entertainment console is one of the
largest consumer designs to date, with five billion transistors. The Xbox One Kinect image …

3D ultrasonic rangefinder on a chip

RJ Przybyla, HY Tang, A Guedes… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An ultrasonic 3D rangefinder uses an array of AlN MEMS transducers and custom readout
electronics to localize targets over a±45° field of view up to 1 m away. The rms position error …

A 32× 128 SPAD-257 TDC receiver IC for pulsed TOF solid-state 3-D imaging

S Jahromi, JP Jansson, P Keränen… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A single-chip receiver for pulsed laser direct time-of-flight 3-D imaging applications has
been realized in a 0.35-μm HV CMOS technology. The chip includes a 32× 128 single …

ASP vision: Optically computing the first layer of convolutional neural networks using angle sensitive pixels

HG Chen, S Jayasuriya, J Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Deep learning using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is quickly becoming the state-of-
the-art for challenging computer vision applications. However, deep learning's power …

Trending IC design directions in 2022

CH Chan, L Cheng, W Deng, P Feng… - Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
For the non-stop demands for a better and smarter society, the number of electronic devices
keeps increasing exponentially; and the computation power, communication data rate, smart …