Affiliation:
1. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Abstract
Standard imaging systems are designed for 2D representation of objects, while information about the third dimension remains implicit, as imaging-based distance estimation is a difficult challenge. Existing long-range distance estimation technologies mostly rely on active emission of signal, which as a subsystem, constitutes a significant portion of the complexity, size and cost of the active-ranging apparatus. Despite the appeal of alleviating the requirement for signal-emission, passive distance estimation methods are essentially nonexistent for ranges greater than a few hundreds of meters. Here, we present monocular long-range, telescope-based passive ranging, realized by integration of point-spread-function engineering into a telescope, extending the scale of point-spread-function engineering-based ranging to distances where it has never been tested before. We provide experimental demonstrations of the optical system in a variety of challenging imaging scenarios, including adversarial weather conditions, dynamic targets and scenes of diversified textures, at distances extending beyond 1.7 km. We conclude with brief quantification of the effect of atmospheric turbulence on estimation precision, which becomes a significant error source in long-range optical imaging.
Funder
Israel Innovation Authority
Israel Science Foundation
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Subject
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Cited by
2 articles.
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