We present an optical 3-D ranging camera for automotive applications that is able to provide a centimeter depth resolution over a mbox{40}^{\circ} \times mbox{20}^{\circ} field of view up to 45 m with just 1.5 W of active illumination at 808 nm. The enabling technology we developed is based on a CMOS imager chip of 64 \times 32 pixels, each with a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) and three 9-bit digital counters, able to perform lock-in time-of-flight calculation of individual photons emitted by a laser illuminator, reflected by the objects in the scene, and eventually detected by the camera. Due to the SPAD single-photon sensitivity and the smart in-pixel processing, the camera provides state-of-the-art performance at both high frame rates and very low light levels without the need for scanning and with global shutter benefits. Furthermore, the CMOS process is automotive certified.

### Automotive Three-Dimensional Vision Through a Single-Photon Counting SPAD Camera

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We present an optical 3-D ranging camera for automotive applications that is able to provide a centimeter depth resolution over a mbox{40}^{\circ} \times mbox{20}^{\circ} field of view up to 45 m with just 1.5 W of active illumination at 808 nm. The enabling technology we developed is based on a CMOS imager chip of 64 \times 32 pixels, each with a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) and three 9-bit digital counters, able to perform lock-in time-of-flight calculation of individual photons emitted by a laser illuminator, reflected by the objects in the scene, and eventually detected by the camera. Due to the SPAD single-photon sensitivity and the smart in-pixel processing, the camera provides state-of-the-art performance at both high frame rates and very low light levels without the need for scanning and with global shutter benefits. Furthermore, the CMOS process is automotive certified.
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Automotive Engineering; Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Mechanical Engineering, sezele
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