Science Daily August 5, 2019
An international team of researchers (USA – University of Wisconsin, Spain) shows that the problem of non-line-of-sight imaging can also be formulated as one of diffractive wave propagation, by introducing a virtual wave field that they call the phasor field. Their method yields a new class of imaging algorithms that mimic the capabilities of line-of-sight cameras. They demonstrated non-line-of-sight imaging of complex scenes with strong multiple scattering and ambient light, arbitrary materials, large depth range and occlusions. Their method handles these challenging cases without explicitly inverting a light-transport model. Once perfected, it could be used in a wide range of applications, from defense and disaster relief to manufacturing and medical imaging…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE
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