Low Power Adaptive Time-of-Flight Imaging for Multiple Rigid Objects

© 2019 IEEE. Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are becoming increasingly popular for many mobile applications. To obtain accurate depth maps, TOF cameras must emit many pulses of light, which consumes a lot of power and lowers the battery life of mobile devices. However, lowering the number of emitted pu...

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Main Authors: Noraky, James, Mathy, Charles, Cheng, Alan, Sze, Vivienne
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado: IEEE 2021
Acceso en liña:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137584
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author Noraky, James
Mathy, Charles
Cheng, Alan
Sze, Vivienne
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Cheng, Alan
Sze, Vivienne
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description © 2019 IEEE. Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are becoming increasingly popular for many mobile applications. To obtain accurate depth maps, TOF cameras must emit many pulses of light, which consumes a lot of power and lowers the battery life of mobile devices. However, lowering the number of emitted pulses results in noisy depth maps. To obtain accurate depth maps while reducing the overall number of emitted pulses, we propose an algorithm that adaptively varies the number of pulses to infrequently obtain high power depth maps and uses them to help estimate subsequent low power ones. To estimate these depth maps, our technique uses the previous frame by accounting for the 3D motion in the scene. We assume that the scene contains independently moving rigid objects and show that we can efficiently estimate the motions using just the data from a TOF camera. The resulting algorithm estimates 640 × 480 depth maps at 30 frames per second on an embedded processor. We evaluate our approach on data collected with a pulsed TOF camera and show that we can reduce the mean relative error of the low power depth maps by up to 64% and the number of emitted pulses by up to 81%.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1375842021-11-06T03:35:40Z Low Power Adaptive Time-of-Flight Imaging for Multiple Rigid Objects Noraky, James Mathy, Charles Cheng, Alan Sze, Vivienne © 2019 IEEE. Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras are becoming increasingly popular for many mobile applications. To obtain accurate depth maps, TOF cameras must emit many pulses of light, which consumes a lot of power and lowers the battery life of mobile devices. However, lowering the number of emitted pulses results in noisy depth maps. To obtain accurate depth maps while reducing the overall number of emitted pulses, we propose an algorithm that adaptively varies the number of pulses to infrequently obtain high power depth maps and uses them to help estimate subsequent low power ones. To estimate these depth maps, our technique uses the previous frame by accounting for the 3D motion in the scene. We assume that the scene contains independently moving rigid objects and show that we can efficiently estimate the motions using just the data from a TOF camera. The resulting algorithm estimates 640 × 480 depth maps at 30 frames per second on an embedded processor. We evaluate our approach on data collected with a pulsed TOF camera and show that we can reduce the mean relative error of the low power depth maps by up to 64% and the number of emitted pulses by up to 81%. 2021-11-05T19:01:18Z 2021-11-05T19:01:18Z 2019-09 2021-03-10T17:42:42Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/137584 Noraky, James, Mathy, Charles, Cheng, Alan and Sze, Vivienne. 2019. "Low Power Adaptive Time-of-Flight Imaging for Multiple Rigid Objects." Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, 2019-September. en 10.1109/icip.2019.8803579 Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf IEEE MIT web domain
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title_short Low Power Adaptive Time-of-Flight Imaging for Multiple Rigid Objects
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