Title :
High photon efficiency computational range imaging using spatio-temporal statistical regularization
Author :
Kirmani, Ahmed ; Venkatraman, Divya ; Colaco, Andrea ; Wong, Franco N. C. ; Goyal, Vivek K.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate 1 photon-per-pixel photon efficiency and sub-pulse-width range resolution in megapixel laser range imaging by using a joint spatio-temporal statistical processing framework and by exploiting transform-domain sparsity.
Keywords :
image processing; image resolution; laser ranging; optical images; optical radar; statistical analysis; LIDAR; high photon efficiency computational range imaging; laser radar; light detection-and-ranging; megapixel laser range imaging; photon-per-pixel photon efficiency; spatio-temporal statistical processing; spatio-temporal statistical regularization; subpulse-width range resolution; transform-domain sparsity; Image resolution; Imaging; Laser radar; Maximum likelihood estimation; Measurement by laser beam; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
