3D Imaging and Sensing System

Dear Colleagues,

Three-dimensional imaging and sensing systems are gaining increasingly more importance in a variety of applications, such as industrial process control, robot vision, autonomous driving and systems, biometrics, medicine, forensics and cultural heritage preservation. There are a couple of 3D data acquisition techniques such as structured light, stereo vision, plenoptic systems and LIDAR. Moreover, in multimodal 3D imaging, the acquisition of a scene is performed simultaneously with a 3D sensor and cameras at different spectral ranges. As a result, the object/scene is described by its spatial 3D coordinates (point clouds), its temporal behavior and, in addition, by further image modalities (e.g., a thermal image, multi-spectral image, polarization image, etc.).

In this Topical Collection, we look forward to receiving contributions presenting technical, methodological and algorithmic approaches capable of contributing to the future development of 3D sensors and their applications—not limited to special application areas—, covering a wide range of topics such as new sensor principles, real-time techniques, multi-3D sensor systems, 3D sensors for harsh operating conditions, new concepts for the 3D detection of uncooperative (transparent and specular) objects up to multimodal 3D sensors and calibration techniques.

Prof. Dr. Gunther Notni
Collection Editor

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