Three-dimensional imaging reconstruction algorithm of gated-viewing laser imaging with compressive sensing

Three-dimensional (3D) laser imaging combining compressive sensing (CS) has an advantage in lower power consumption and less imaging sensors; however, it brings enormous stress to subsequent calculation devices. In this paper we proposed a fast 3D imaging reconstruction algorithm to deal with time-slice images sampled by single-pixel detectors. The algorithm implements 3D imaging reconstruction before CS recovery, thus it saves plenty of runtime of CS recovery. Several experiments are conducted to verify the performance of the algorithm. Simulation results demonstrated that the proposed algorithm has better performance in terms of efficiency compared to an existing algorithm. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America