Compression and denoising of time-resolved light transport

Abstract

Exploiting temporal information of light propagation captured at ultra-fast frame rates has enabled applications such as reconstruction of complex hidden geometry and vision through scattering media. However, these applications require high-dimensional and high-resolution transport data, which introduces significant performance and storage constraints. Additionally, due to different sources of noise in both captured and synthesized data, the signal becomes significantly degraded over time, compromising the quality of the results. In this work, we tackle these issues by proposing a method that extracts meaningful sets of features to accurately represent time-resolved light transport data. Our method reduces the size of time-resolved transport data up to a factor of 32, while significantly mitigating variance in both temporal and spatial dimensions.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Mar 25, 2020
Source ID
10.1364/ol.383130

Entities

People

  • Adolfo Muñoz
  • Diego Gutierrez
  • Julio Marco
  • Mingqin Chen
  • Yun Liang
  • Zesheng Huang

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • European Research Council
  • Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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