Abstract

Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) are affordable photodetectors, capable to collect extremely fast low-energy events, due to their single-photon sensibility. This makes them very suitable for time-of-flight-based range imaging systems, allowing to reduce costs and power requirements, without sacrifizing much temporal resolution. In this work we describe a computational model to simulate the behaviour of SPAD sensors, aiming to provide a realistic camera model for time-resolved light transport simulation, with applications on prototyping new reconstructions techniques based on SPAD time-of-flight data. Our model accounts for the major effects of the sensor on the incoming signal. We compare our model against real-world measurements, and apply it to a variety of scenarios, including complex multiply-scattered light transport.

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@misc{Hernandez2017spad, title={A Computational Model of a Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Sensor for Transient Imaging}, author={Quercus Hernandez and Diego Gutierrez and Adrian Jarabo}, year={2017}, eprint={1703.02635}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={physics.ins-det} }

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We want to thank Alberto Tosi and his team at Politecnico di Milano for providing references on SPADs theory and characterization, as well as measured data from real-world SPADs. This research has been funded by DARPA (project REVEAL), and the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (projects TIN2016-78753-P and TIN2014-61696-EXP).