Investigations Of Optical 2d 3d Imaging With Different Sensors And Illumination Configurations

Investigations of Optical 2D/3D-imaging with Different Sensors and Illumination Configurations

Wide Area 2D/3D Imaging

Imaging technology is an important research area and it is widely utilized in a growing number of disciplines ranging from gaming, robotics and automation to medicine. In the last decade 3D imaging became popular mainly driven by the introduction of novel 3D cameras and measuring devices. These cameras are usually limited to indoor scenes with relatively low distances. Benjamin Langmann introduces medium and long-range 2D/3D cameras to overcome these limitations. He reports measurement results for these devices and studies their characteristic behavior. In order to facilitate the application of these cameras, common algorithms are adapted to the 2D/3D data and new approaches for standard computer vision tasks are introduced.

Compressive Sensing for the Photonic Mixer Device

Miguel Heredia Conde aims at finding novel ways to fit the valuable mathematical results of the Compressive Sensing (CS) theory to the specific case of the Photonic Mixer Device (PMD).To this end, methods are presented that take profit of the sparsity of the signals gathered by PMD sensors. In his research, the author reveals that CS enables outstanding tradeoffs between sensing effort and depth error reduction or resolution enhancement.