학술논문

Artifact Removal in Long-Range Single Photon LiDAR via Waveforms-Guided Depth Image Estimation
Document Type
article
Source
IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2024)
Subject
Single-photon LiDAR
depth imaging
artifact removal
d-ToF
Applied optics. Photonics
TA1501-1820
Optics. Light
QC350-467
Language
English
ISSN
1943-0655
Abstract
Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has widespread applications due to the ultra-high sensitivity of the single-photon detector. However, the reconstruction has been plagued by multiple types of noise caused by crosstalk, dark counts, and background light. Artifacts produced by crosstalk are particularly difficult to distinguish directly from the signal for single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array detector. This work proposes a waveforms-guided depth image estimation method to remove the signal artifacts effectively. Experiments show that a region of interest recognition ratio of 1.02 is achieved at 4.2 km. The study demonstrates that this waveform-guided method has excellent potential for accurate target recognition in a long range.