CVFX Lecture 23: LiDAR and time-of-flight sensing

ECSE-6969 Computer Vision for Visual Effects
Rich Radke, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lecture 23: LiDAR and time-of-flight sensing (4/21/14)

0:00:01 3D data acquisition
0:01:12 LiDAR scanning
0:05:06 LiDAR data example
0:09:33 LiDAR scanning difficulties
0:15:10 LiDAR scanning principles
0:15:20 Pulse-based LiDAR
0:20:23 Phase-based LiDAR
0:27:02 LiDAR scanning for VFX examples
0:31:58 LiDAR scanning for autonomous vehicles
0:34:05 Time-of-flight cameras
0:37:20 ToF image and video examples
0:42:27 Live ToF results from Microsoft Kinect
0:50:06 Skeleton estimation from Kinect SDK

Key references:

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P. J. Besl. Active, optical range imaging sensors. Machine Vision and Applications, 1(2):127--52, June 1988.

A. Kolb, E. Barth, R. Koch, and R. Larsen. Time-of-flight cameras in computer graphics. In Eurographics, 2010.

Y. Cui, S. Schuon, D. Chan, S. Thrun, and C. Theobalt. 3D shape scanning with a time-of-flight camera. In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010.