Seeing Far in the Dark with Patterned Flash

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12570v1
• Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:16:50 GMT
• Title: Seeing Far in the Dark with Patterned Flash
• Authors: Zhanghao Sun, Jian Wang, Yicheng Wu, Shree Nayar
• Abstract summary: We propose a new flash technique, named patterned flash'', for flash imaging at a long distance. Patterned flash concentrates optical power into a dot array. We develop a joint image reconstruction and depth estimation algorithm with a convolutional neural network.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Flash illumination is widely used in imaging under low-light environments. However, illumination intensity falls off with propagation distance quadratically, which poses significant challenges for flash imaging at a long distance. We propose a new flash technique, named ``patterned flash'', for flash imaging at a long distance. Patterned flash concentrates optical power into a dot array. Compared with the conventional uniform flash where the signal is overwhelmed by the noise everywhere, patterned flash provides stronger signals at sparsely distributed points across the field of view to ensure the signals at those points stand out from the sensor noise. This enables post-processing to resolve important objects and details. Additionally, the patterned flash projects texture onto the scene, which can be treated as a structured light system for depth perception. Given the novel system, we develop a joint image reconstruction and depth estimation algorithm with a convolutional neural network. We build a hardware prototype and test the proposed flash technique on various scenes. The experimental results demonstrate that our patterned flash has significantly better performance at long distances in low-light environments.

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