Time of Flight (TOF) Cameras

Dear Colleagues,

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras represent an efficient alternative to classical depth sensors, mostly based on triangulation systems, and provide depth images at high frame rates, simplifying several challenging tasks such as shape analysis, people and object detection, object classification, etc. TOF cameras measure the 3D position of each point in the scene by evaluating the “time-of-flight” of a light signal emitted by the camera and reflected back from each point. TOF cameras are compact, with no moving parts. As such, they can easily be miniaturized, for integration into mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. As a result, researchers have started exploring their potential application in industrial and medical fields.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect papers from academic and industrial players with original, previously unpublished research about new trends and solutions to the technological problems of applied metrology and sensing in different fields.

Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• TOF camera design and engineering
• Performance evaluations of TOF cameras
• Comparison between TOF cameras and triangulation-based or other sensing devices
• Embedding of TOF cameras in smartphones and portable devices
• TOF cameras and sensor fusion
• TOF camera data processing
• TOF camera-based range systems
• Applications of TOF cameras to automotive, robotic, and aerospace systems
• Applications of TOF cameras in biomedical systems
• Other applications of TOF cameras

Prof. Franco Docchio
Guest Editor

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