Authors
Otkrist Gupta, Thomas Willwacher, Andreas Velten, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Ramesh Raskar
Publication date
2012/8/13
Journal
Optics express
Volume
20
Issue
17
Pages
19096-19108
Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
Description
We analyze multi-bounce propagation of light in an unknown hidden volume and demonstrate that the reflected light contains sufficient information to recover the 3D structure of the hidden scene. We formulate the forward and inverse theory of secondary scattering using ideas from energy front propagation and tomography. We show that using Fresnel approximation greatly simplifies this problem and the inversion can be achieved via a backpropagation process. We study the invertibility, uniqueness and choices of space-time-angle dimensions using synthetic examples. We show that a 2D streak camera can be used to discover and reconstruct hidden geometry. Using a 1D high speed time of flight camera, we show that our method can be used recover 3D shapes of objects “around the corner”.
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