Publications

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2023

  1. Schrödinger’s Camera: First Steps Towards a Quantum-Based Privacy Preserving Camera
    Hannah Kirkland, S. J. Koppal
    arXiv 2023

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  2. Energy-Efficient Adaptive 3D Sensing
    Brevin Tilmon, Zhanghao Sun, S. J. Koppal, Yicheng Wu, Georgios Evangelidis, Ramzi Zahreddine, Guru Krishnan, Sizhuo Ma, Jian Wang
    CVPR 2023

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  3. Give me some room please! Personal space bubbles for safety and performance
    Karina LaRubbio, Ethan Wilson, S. J. Koppal, Sophie J ̈org , Eakta Jain,
    IEEE VR Conference 2023 (Poster)

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  4. Event-based Dual Photography for Transparent Scene Reconstruction
    Optics Letters 2023
    Xiaomeng Liu, Joshua D. Rego, Suren Jayasuriya, S. J. Koppal

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2022

  1. BlockSLAM: Privacy and Security in Spatial Computing for the Gig Economy
    FOCUS Lab Position Paper 2022
    S. J. Koppal

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  2. Optical MEMS enable next generation solutions for robot vision and human-robot interaction
    SPIE OPTO 2022
    Daniel Lovell, Veljko Milanovic, Abhishek Kasturi, Frank Hu, Karan Soni, Derek Ho, Bryan H. Atwood, Lj Ristic, Xiaomeng Liu, and S. J. Koppal

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2021

  1. SaccadeCam: Adaptive Visual Attention for Monocular Depth Sensing
    International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021
    B. Tilmon and S. J. Koppal

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  2. A Monolithic Forward-View Optical Scanner by a Pair of Upright MEMS Mirrors on a SiOB for LiDAR Applications
    D. Wang, D. Zheng, S. J. Koppal, B. Sun, and H. Xie

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  3. Dense Lissajous Sampling and Interpolation for Dynamic Light-Transport
    Optics Express 2021
    X. Liu, K. Henderson, J. Rego, S. Jayasuriya and S. J. Koppal

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  4. A Miniature LiDAR with a Detached MEMS Scanner for Micro-robotics
    IEEE Sensors Journal 2021
    D. Wang, H. Xie, L. Thomas and S. J. Koppal

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  5. Fast Foveating Cameras for Dense Adaptive Resolution
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) 2021
    B. Tilmon, E. Jain, S. Ferrari and S. J. Koppal

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  6. Design and Fabrication of a Forward View Scanner on SIOB with Latch Structure for Improved Vertical Orientation
    IEEE International Conference on Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems (MEMS) 2021
    D. Wang, D. Zheng, S. J. Koppal, B. Sun and H. Xie

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2020

  1. Towards a MEMS-based Adaptive LIDAR
    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2020
    F. Pittaluga, Z. Tasneem, J. Folden, B. Tilmon, A. Chakrabarti and S. J. Koppal

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  2. Adaptive Fovea for Scanning Depth Sensors
    International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) 2020
    Z. Tasneem, C. Adhivarahan, D. Wang, H. Xie, K. Dantu and S. J. Koppal

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  3. A MEMS-Based Foveating Lidar to Enable Real-Time Adaptive Depth Sensing
    arXiv 2020
    F. Pittaluga, Z. Tasneem, J. Folden, B. Tilmon, A. Chakrabarti and S. J. Koppal

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  4. FoveaCam: A MEMS Mirror-Enabled Foveating Camera
    International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2020
    B. Tilmon, E. Jain, S. Ferrari, and S. J. Koppal

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  5. Design and Calibration of a Fast Flying-Dot Projector for Dynamic Light Transport Acquisition
    Transactions on Computational Imaging (TCI) 2020
    K. Henderson, X. Liu, J. Folden, B. Tilmon, S. Jayasuriya, and S. J. Koppal

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  6. Proximity-based Sensor Fusion of Depth Cameras and Isotropic Rad-detectors
    Transactions on Nuclear Science 2020
    K. Henderson, X. Liu, K. Stadnikia, A. Martin, A. Enqvist, and S. J. Koppal

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  7. The Security-Utility Trade-off for Iris Authentication and Eye Animation for Social Virtual Avatars
    IEEE VR 2020
    B. John, S. Joerg, S. J. Koppal and E. Jain

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  8. A low-voltage, low-current, digital-driven MEMS mirror for low-power LiDAR
    IEEE Sensors Letters 2020
    D. Wang, L. Thomas, S. J. Koppal, Y. Ding, H. Xie

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  9. A Monolithic Forward-View MEMS Laser Scanner With Decoupled Raster Scanning and Enlarged Scanning Angle for Micro LiDAR Applications
    Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 2020
    D. Wang, S. J. Koppal and H. Xie

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2019

  1. A Compact Omnidirectional Laser Scanner Based on an Electrothermal Tripod MEMS Mirror for LiDAR
    Transducers 2019
    D. Wang, C. Watkins, S. J. Koppal, M. Li, Y. Ding and H. Xie

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  2. A Large Aperture 2-Axis Electrothermal MEMS Mirror for Compact 3-D LiDAR
    International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN) 2019
    D. Wang, C. Watkins, M. Aradhya, S. J. Koppal and H. Xie

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  3. Revealing Scenes by Inverting Structure from Motion Reconstructions
    Best Paper Finalist
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019
    F. Pittaluga, S. J. Koppal, S. Kang and S. Sinha

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  4. EyeVEIL: Degrading Iris Authentication in Eye-Tracking Headsets
    ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) 2019
    B. John, S. J. Koppal and E. Jain

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  5. Learning Privacy Preserving Encodings through Adversarial Training
    IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2019
    F. Pittaluga, S. J. Koppal, A. Chakrabarti

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2018

  1. Directionally Controlled Time-of-Flight Ranging for Mobile Sensing Platforms
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2018
    Z. Tasneem, D. Wang, H. Xie and S. J. Koppal

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  2. An Integrated Forward-View 2-Axis MEMS Scanner for Compact 3D LIDAR
    Winner of Best Student Paper Award
    NEMS 2018
    D.Wang*, S. S. Rojas, Al. Shuping, Z. Tasneem, S. J. Koppal, H. Xie*

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  3. A Compact 3D LIDAR Based on an Electrothermal Two-Axis MEMS Scanner for Small UAV
    SPIE 2018
    D. Wang, S. Strassle, A. Stainsby, Y. Bai, S. J. Koppal, et al.

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  4. Designing Light Filters to Detect Skin Using a Low-powered Sensor
    SoutheastCon 2018
    M. U. Tariq, A. K. Ghosh, K. Badillo-Urquiola, A. Jha, S. J. Koppal, and P. J. Wisniewski

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  5. Data Fusion for a Vision-Aided Radiological Detection System: Calibration Algorithm Performance
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics A
    K. Stadnikia, K. Henderson, A. Martin, P. Riley, S. J. Koppal, A. Enqvist

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2017

  1. Tracking Radioactive Sources through Sensor Fusion of Omnidirectional LIDAR and Isotropic Rad-detectors
    3DV 2017
    K. Henderson, K. Stadnikia, A. Martin, A. Enqvist, and S. J. Koppal

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  2. Focal Flow: Velocity and Depth from Differential Defocus through Motion
    IJCV 2017
    E. Alexander, Q. Guo, S. J. Koppal, S.J. Gortler, and T. Zickler

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  3. Situational Information Guidance for Revised Detection Limits
    Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference 2017
    K. Stadnikia, K. Henderson, S. J. Koppal and A. Enqvist

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  4. A Compact MEMS-Based Wide-Angle Optical Scanner
    OMN 2017
    B. Yang, L. Zhou, X. Zhang, D. Wang, S. J. Koppal and H. Xie

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  5. Creating Segments and Effects on Comics by Clustering Gaze Data
    Transactions on Multimedia Computing (TOMM), 2017
    I. Thirunarayan, K. Khetarpal, S.J. Koppal, O. LeMeur, J. Shea, E. Jain

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  6. Pre-Capture Privacy for Small Vision Sensors
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017
    F. Pittaluga and S.J. Koppal

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2016

  1. Focal Flow: Measuring Distance and Velocity with Defocus and Differential Motion.
    Winner of Best Student Paper Award
    European Conference on Computer Vision, 2016.
    E. Alexander, Q. Guo, S.J. Koppal, S.J. Gortler, and T. Zickler

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  2. Leveraging Gaze Data for Segmentation and Effects on Comics.
    ACM Symposium on Applied Perception Poster, 2016.
    I. Thirunarayanan, S. J. Koppal, J. Shea, E. Jain

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  3. A Survey of Computational Photography in the Small.
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2016.
    S. J. Koppal

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  4. A Wide-angle Immersed MEMS Mirror and Its Application in Optical Coherence Tomography.
    International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics, 2016.
    X. Zhang, L. Zhou, C. Duan, D. Zheng, S. J. Koppal, and H. Xie

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  5. Sensor-level Privacy for Thermal Cameras.
    International Conference on Computational Photography, 2016.
    F. Pittaluga, A. Zivkovic and S. J. Koppal

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  6. Wide-angle Structured Light with a Scanning MEMS Mirror in Liquid.
    Optics Express 2016.
    X. Zhang, S. J. Koppal, R. Zhang, L. Zhou, E. Butler, and H. Xie

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2015

  1. Low Power Depth and Velocity from a Passive Moving Sensors, 2015.
    Extreme Imaging Workshop 2015.
    E. Alexander, S. J. Koppal and T. Zickler

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  2. Low-Cost Depth and Radiological Sensor Fusion to Detect Moving Sources
    3DV, 2015.
    P. Riley, A. Enqvist and S. J. Koppal

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  3. Privacy Preserving Optics for Miniature Vision Sensors
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2015.
    F. Pittaluga and S. J. Koppal

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  4. Data Fusion for a Vision-Radiological System for Source Tracking and Discovery
    Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applic., 2015.
    A. Enqvist and S. J. Koppal

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  5. Generalized Assorted Camera Arrays: Robust Cross-channel Registration and Applic.
    Transactions on Image Processing, 2015.
    J. Holloway, K. Mitra, S. J. Koppal and A. Veeraraghavan

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  6. MEMS Mirrors Submerged in Liquid for Wide-angle Scanning
    International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, 2015.
    X. Zhang, R. Zhang, S. J. Koppal, L. Butler, X. Cheng and H. Xie

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  7. Beyond Perspective Dual Photography with Illumination Masks
    Transactions on Image Processing, 2015.
    S. J. Koppal and S. G. Narasimhan

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2013

  1. Towards wide-angle micro vision sensors
    Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2013.
    Invited paper for special issue
    S. J. Koppal, I. Gkioulekas, T. Young, H. Park, K. Crozier, G. Barrows and T. Zickler

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2012

  1. A low-power structured light sensor for outdoor scene reconstruction and dominant material identification
    International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, 2012.
    C. Mertz, S. J. Koppal, S. Sia and S. G. Narasimhan

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2011

  1. Exploiting DLP illumination dithering for reconstruction and photography of high-speed scenes
    International Journal on Computer Vision, 2011.
    S. J. Koppal, S. Yamazaki and S. G. Narasimhan

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  2. A viewer-centric editor for stereoscopic cinema
    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2011.
    S. J. Koppal, L. Zitnick, M. Cohen, S. Kang, B. Ressler and A. Colburn

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  3. Wide-angle micro sensors for vision on a tight budget
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011.
    Oral Presentation, 4% acceptance rate
    S. J. Koppal, I. Gkioulekas, T. Zickler and G. Barrows

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2009

  1. Shadow cameras: Reciprocal views from illumination masks
    International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009.
    Poster Presentation, 20% acceptance rate
    S. J. Koppal and S. G. Narasimhan

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2008

  1. Temporal dithering of illumination for fast active vision
    European Conference on Computer Vision, 2008.
    Oral Presentation, 4% acceptance rate
    S. G. Narasimhan, S. J. Koppal and S. Yamazaki

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  2. Illustrating motion through DLP photography
    International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems, 2008.
    S. J. Koppal and S. G. Narasimhan

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  3. Appearance derivatives for iso-normal clustering of scenes
    Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2008.
    S. J. Koppal and S. G. Narasimhan

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2007

  1. Novel depth cues from uncalibrated near-field lighting
    International Conference on Computer Vision, 2007.
    Poster Presentation, 20% acceptance rate
    S. J. Koppal and S. G. Narasimhan

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2006

  1. Clustering appearance for scene analysis
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2006.
    Oral Presentation, 4% acceptance rate
    S. J. Koppal and S. G. Narasimhan

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  2. Taylor series of appearance functions
    CMU-Robotics Institute Technical report, 2006.
    S. J. Koppal, A. Datta, S. G. Narasimhan and K. Nishino

2005

  1. Structured light from scattering media
    International Conference on Computer Vision, 2005.
    Oral Presentation, 4% acceptance rate
    S. G. Narasimhan, S. K. Nayar, B. Sun and S. J. Koppal

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