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Performance investigation of cameras using HDR sensors for daylight glare evaluations

Jan Wienold, Geraldine Cai Ting Quek, Dong Hyun Kim

This study presents a novel framework for evaluating the luminance measurement capabilities of High Dynamic Range (HDR) sensor cameras in indoor glare conditions. Results indicate that the practical usage range of the CSEM VIP camera is significantly lower ...

International Commission on Illumination2023

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

Andrei Ardelean

Vision systems built around conventional image sensors have to read, encode and transmit large quantities of pixel information, a majority of which is redundant. As a result, new computational imaging sensor architectures were developed to preprocess the r ...

EPFL2023

MALTA3: Concepts for a new radiation tolerant sensor in the TowerJazz 180 nm technology

Francesco Piro

The upgrade of the MALTA DMAPS designed in Tower 180 nm CMOS Imaging process will implement the numerous modifications, as well as front-end changes in order to boost the charge collection efficiency after the targeted fluence of 1x10(15) 1 MeVn(eq)/cm(2). ...

ELSEVIER2022

Vision-based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments

Dario Floreano, Fabrizio Schiano, Fabian Maximilian Schilling

Decentralized deployment of drone swarms usually relies on inter-agent communication or visual markers that are mounted on the vehicles to simplify their mutual detection. This letter proposes a vision-based detection and tracking algorithm that enables gr ...

2021

A medical system and method using a pair of gloves equipped with physiological sensors

David Atienza Alonso, Dennis Majoe

A medical system comprising a first wearable device configured to be worn by a first hand of a user, a second wearable device configured to be worn by a second hand of the user, a first sensor device arranged on the first wearable device, the first sensor ...

2021

Large field of view multi-camera endoscopic apparatus with omni-directional illumination

Yusuf Leblebici, Ömer Cogal

A multi-camera hemispherical very wide field of view imaging apparatus with omnidirectional illumination capability comprises a cylindrical body (4, 4.a, 4.b), a hemispherical mechanical frame (2) arranged on one end of the cylindrical body (4, 4.a, 4.b), ...

2020

A Neuro-Inspired Computational Model for a Visually Guided Robotic Lamprey Using Frame and Event Based Cameras

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Alexandre Bernardino, Mohammadreza Bayat

The computational load associated with computer vision is often prohibitive, and limits the capacity for on-board image analysis in compact mobile robots. Replicating the kind of feature detection and neural processing that animals excel at remains a chall ...

2020

Modeling for Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Raffaele Capoccia

The low-light performance of a CMOS image sensor (CIS) is one of the most important performance metrics in a camera, whether it is used in products for consumer electronics or in an image-acquisition system for machine vision or the Internet-of-Things (IoT ...

EPFL2020

Hardware Implementation of a Smart Camera with Keypoint Detection and Description

Yusuf Leblebici, Selman Ergünay

Feature detection and description constitute important steps of many computer vision applications such as object detection and panorama stitching. Since those steps are computationally heavy, they might occupy significant portion of the full operation. Alt ...

IEEE2018

Smart Camera Architectures for Wireless and Multi-Sensor Vision Applications

Selman Ergünay

Advances in camera sensor technology and its manufacturing process now allow high quality image acquisition with low-cost devices. Moreover, the latest significant increase in computational capacity of the processing units enables incorporation of more com ...

EPFL2018

Sky Monitoring System

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Yujie Wu

In a sky monitoring system (S), comprising an image sensor (1), a wide angle lens (16), a microprocessor (3), and a memory unit (11, 18), wherein the sky monitoring system (S) is configured to take pictures of a sky scene, wherein the sky monitoring system ...

2018

Sampling the Multiple Facets of Light

Gilles Baechler

The theme of this thesis revolves around three important manifestations of light, namely its corpuscular, wave and electromagnetic nature. Our goal is to exploit these principles to analyze, design and build imaging modalities by developing new signal proc ...

EPFL2018

WILDTRACK: A Multi-camera HD Dataset for Dense Unscripted Pedestrian Detection

Pascal Fua, François Fleuret, Tatjana Chavdarova, Andrii Maksai, Cijo Jose

People detection methods are highly sensitive to occlusions between pedestrians, which are extremely frequent in many situations where cameras have to be mounted at a limited height. The reduction of camera prices allows for the generalization of static mu ...

IEEE2018

Vision-Based Sense and Avoid Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Steven Adriaan Roelofsen

The field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, is rapidly growing, both in terms of size and of number of applications. Civil applications range from mapping, inspection, search and rescue, taking aerial footage, to art show, entertain ...

EPFL2017

Large Field of View Multi-Camera Endoscopic Apparatus with Omni-Directional Illumination

Yusuf Leblebici, Ömer Cogal

2017

A Single-chip 2048x1080 Resolution 32fps 380mW Trinocular Disparity Estimation Processor in 28nm CMOS Technology

Yusuf Leblebici, Abdulkadir Akin, Tugba Demirci, Jonathan Emmanuel D Narinx

This paper presents a single-chip trinocular disparity estimation processor, capable of computing in real-time up to 2048×1080 resolution depth maps at 32fps with up to 256-pixel disparity range using two/three CMOS camera sensors. The most important featu ...

2017

An Accelerator for High Efficient Vision Processing

Paolo Ienne, Robert Fasthuber

In recent years, neural network accelerators have been shown to achieve both high energy efficiency and high performance for a broad application scope within the important category of recognition and mining applications. Still, both the energy efficiency a ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Cooperative Perception Algorithms for Networked Intelligent Vehicles

Milos Vasic

The degree of intelligence built-in in today's vehicles in constantly on the rise. The vehicles are being equipped with sensors, with the goal to estimate the state of the vehicle and the environment surrounding it. Intelligent algorithms that process the ...

EPFL2017

Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Assim Boukhayma

CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) overtook the charge coupled devices (CCDs) in low noise performance. Photoelectron counting capability is the next step for CIS for ultimate low light performance and new imaging paradigms. This work presents a review of CMOS image ...

EPFL2016

Real-Time Omnidirectional Imaging System with Interconnected Network of Cameras

Yusuf Leblebici, Alexandre Schmid, Vladan Popovic, Hossein Afshari, Kerem Seyid

The Panoptic camera is an omnidirectional multi-aperture visual system which is realized by mounting multiple imaging sensors on a hemispherical frame. In this chapter, we will present a novel distributed and parallel implementation of the real-time omnidi ...

Springer-Verlag2015