Three-dimensional range-gated imaging is a new 3D sensing technique with higher resolution than 3D flash LIDAR,
and has great potential in realizing high-resolution real-time 3D imaging to satisfy land surface remote sensing
applications. In this paper, three existing approaches of realizing 3D range-gated LIDAR are introduced including their
advantages and disadvantages. Among them, the two methods of gain modulation and range-intensity correlation can
reconstruct a 3D scene from two gate images, which enable 3D flash imaging. We propose a 3D superresolution
range-gated flash LIDAR based on triangular algorithm of range-intensity correlation, and further present a coding
method based on triangular algorithm for high depth-to-resolution ratio. Some prototyping experiments and simulations
are demonstrated.
High-resolution real-time three-dimensional imaging is important in 3D video surveillance, robot vision, and
automatic navigation. In this paper, a three-dimensional superresolution range-gated imaging based on inter-frame
correlation is proposed to realize high-resolution real-time 3D imaging. In this method, a CCD/CMOS with a gated
image intensifier is used as image sensor, and depth information collapsed in 2D images is reconstructed by
spatial-temporal inter-frame correlation with a resolution of about 1000×1000 full-frame pixels within a frame.
Furthermore, under inter-frame correlation a 3D point cloud frame is generated at video rates corresponding to
CCD/CMOS utilized. Finally, some proof simulation experiments are demonstrated.
The range-gated laser imaging technology has become a useful technique in many applications in recent years. In
order to expand the range of imaging detection and improve the measurement range resolution of the imaging system, we
used circular step advance delay sequence for the synchronous control. And we developed a method of using dynamic
phase-shift technique in FPGA to improve the precision of the delay in the time sequence, which can make the precision
of the delay stepper between the two adjacent frames less than global clock period of the FPGA and approach the limit of
FPGA’s operating frequency. That is to say, it can equivalently increase the clock frequency. Then we can effectively
improve measurement range resolution of the imaging system. In this paper, we have studied how dynamic phase-shift
technique can be equivalent to higher clock frequency and performed some experiments. We presented the structure of
dynamic phase-shift technique used to improve the precision of delay in the synchronization control time sequence. And
the simulation and experimental results are showed in this paper. The results demonstrate that using dynamic phase-shift
technique in FPGA can make the precision of the delay between the ICCD’s trigger pulse and the laser’s trigger pulse
reach 1ns, which means the resolution of measurement range can be 0.15m theoretically. The timing control signal with
dynamic phase-shift technique designed in this paper can be widely used in range-gated imaging because of its high
timing control precision and flexible parameter setting.
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