2016/11/14 by Weiji He, He, Weiji, Zhenchao Feng +13
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques #Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Optical Coherence Tomography Applications #Optics (physics.optics)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.04222
openalex publication_date 2016/11/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
For active optical imaging, the use of single-photon detectors can greatly improve the detection sensitivity of the system. However, the traditional maximum-likelihood based imaging method needs a long acquisition time to capture clear three-dimensional (3D) image in low light-level. To tackle this problem, we present a novel imaging method for depth estimate, which can obtain the accurate 3D image in a short acquisition time. Our method combines the photon-count statistics with the temporal correlations of the reflected signal. According to the characteristics of the target surface, including the surface reflectivity, our method is capable of adaptively changing the dwell time in each pixel. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can fast obtain the accurate depth image despite the existence of strong background noise.