recent advances of specific technologies and applications for 3D imaging Call for Papers



A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). 
This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2021.

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will focus on recent advances of specific
technologies and applications for 3D imaging. 3D sensing and related
applications is a rapidly growing research field where novel solutions
are catching significant interest both from academic and industrial
people. According to Allied Market Research, the global 3D camera
market is projected to reach $11.13 billion by 2024, registering a
Compound Annual Growth Rate of 37.1% during the period of 2018 to
2024.

Nowadays, a large number of medium to high level smartphones started
integrating 3D sensors for applications ranging from 3D face
recognition to avatar creation and photography enhancement, but 3D
sensing is also becoming crucial for self-driving cars where LiDARs
represent the main device for pedestrian and vehicle detection
estimating their distance. Another field where 3D sensors are playing
a crucial role is industry 4.0 and manufacturing, where their
combination with AI has become a fundamental element for quality
control in production lines, driverless transport systems, or random
bin picking.

Assistive technologies also greatly benefit from 3D sensing, as does
the analysis of sports contexts and the monitoring of natural and
manufactured structures for disaster prevention and resilience tasks.

The aforementioned applicative fields are a few examples of contexts
where 3D sensing is capturing a growing relevance and in this Special
Issue innovative sensors, dedicated hardware and related applications
(e.g., stereoscopic imaging, structured light, SPAD cameras or
Time-of-Flight Sensing) are welcomed.

Dr. Marco Leo
Prof. Dr. Marco Marcon
Guest Editors


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Keywords
3D sensors

Stereo Vision

Structured Light cameras
Time of Flight cameras

Depth maps acquisition

LiDAR


Special Issue Editors

Dr. Marco Leo
E-Mail Website SciProfiles
Guest Editor
R&D Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, DHITECH - University
Campus of Lecce, Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Signal Processing;
Assistive technology
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Prof. Dr. Marco Marcon
E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Interests: Computer Vision; 3D acquisition systems; Tomography
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