Unlocking the Performance of Proximity Sensors by Utilizing Transient Histograms

Directly utilizing low-level information generated by optical time-of-flight sensors allows recovery of planar geometry and albedo from a single sensor measurement. Code is now available: https://github.com/uwgraphics/ProximityPlanarRecovery Project website: https://cpsiff.github.io/unlocking_proximity_sensors/index.html Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) / To Appear: ICRA 2024 0:00 Intro to Transient Sensors 1:10 This Work 1:53 Baseline 2:08 Our First Method 2:37 Our Second Method 3:33 Evaluation 3:48 Results 4:17 Robot Demo 5:47 Next Steps