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Re:Understanding Indirect Time-of-Flight Depth Sensing by rzw2 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:28PM (#26876871)
There are two issues with sunlight and iToF. The sunlight photons saturate the pixel, and you get no useful measurement. The dominant noise source of iToF is photon shot noise [1], so sunlight photons contribute heavily to noise. Increase your laser power, use better optical notch filters, decrease the sensor integration time, and do more image filtering. I'm a cofounder at Chronoptics and we've developed a sunlight capable ToF camera, https://youtu.be/7vMI37S0w3Q

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_noise

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