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9 September 2019 On fast object detection using single-photon lidar data
Julian Tachella, Yoann Altmann, Stephen McLaughlin, Jean-Yves Tourneret
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Abstract
Light detection and ranging (Lidar) systems based on single-photon detection can be used to obtain range and reflectivity information from 3D scenes with high range resolution. However, reconstructing the 3D surfaces from the raw single-photon waveforms is challenging, in particular when a limited number of photons is detected and when the ratio of spurious background detection events is large. This paper reviews a set of fast detection algorithms, which can be used to assess the presence of objects/surfaces in each waveform, allowing only the histograms where the imaged surfaces are present to be further processed. The original method we recently proposed is extended here using a multiscale approach to further reduce the computational complexity of the detection process. The proposed methods are compared to state-of-the-art 3D reconstruction methods using synthetic and real single-photon data and the results illustrate their benefits for fast and robust target detection.
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Julian Tachella, Yoann Altmann, Stephen McLaughlin, and Jean-Yves Tourneret "On fast object detection using single-photon lidar data", Proc. SPIE 11138, Wavelets and Sparsity XVIII, 111380T (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2527685
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KEYWORDS
Photons

LIDAR

Target detection

Detection and tracking algorithms

Reflectivity

Single photon detectors

Signal detection

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