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A model decomposition method for the real-time non-line-of-sight imaging
Peng Yang1,2, Zewei Wang1,2, Yinghui Guo1,2,3,4
1State Key Laboratory of Optical Field Manipulation Science and Technology, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China.
Iscience
|May 11, 2026
Summary
MD-NLOS reconstructs non-line-of-sight (NLOS) images efficiently using spectral filtering and gradient descent. This method significantly improves reconstruction quality with minimal data, outperforming traditional techniques.
Area of Science:
- Computer Vision
- Computational Imaging
- Signal Processing
Background:
- Real-time non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging presents a challenge balancing data acquisition speed with image reconstruction fidelity.
- Existing transient imaging methods offer high quality but require extensive data, while regularization methods demand significant computational resources.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce MD-NLOS, a novel model decomposition technique for efficient and high-quality NLOS image reconstruction.
- To address the trade-off between acquisition efficiency and reconstruction quality in NLOS imaging.
Main Methods:
- Formulated NLOS reconstruction as a least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) problem enhanced with spectral filtering.
- Solved the optimization problem in the frequency domain for computational efficiency.
- Utilized simple gradient descent for solving the reformulated problem, avoiding complex optimization algorithms.
Main Results:
- Successfully reconstructed synthetic 256 × 256 and experimental 128 × 128 NLOS images using only 36 and 64 sampling points, respectively.
- Achieved rapid reconstruction times of 3.1 s and 4.6 s for the respective image sizes.
- Obtained a structural similarity index (SSIM) of 0.7352, demonstrating a significant improvement (approximately 6-fold) over the Fast-Kaczmarz (FK) method.
Conclusions:
- MD-NLOS offers a computationally efficient and effective solution for real-time NLOS imaging.
- The method achieves high-quality image reconstruction with significantly reduced data sampling and computation time.
- MD-NLOS represents a substantial advancement over existing methods for challenging NLOS imaging scenarios.
