DENALI: A Dataset Enabling Non-Line-of-Sight Spatial Reasoning with Low-Cost LiDARs
Behari, Nikhil, Rivero, Diego, Apostolides, Luke, Ghosh, Suman, Liang, Paul Pu, Raskar, Ramesh
Consumer LiDARs in mobile devices and robots typically output a single depth value per pixel. Yet internally, they record full time-resolved histograms containing direct and multi-bounce light returns; these multi-bounce returns encode rich non-line-of-sight (NLOS) cues that can enable perception of hidden objects in a scene. However, severe hardware limitations of consumer LiDARs make NLOS reconstruction with conventional methods difficult. In this work, we motivate a complementary direction: enabling NLOS perception with low-cost LiDARs through data-driven inference. We present DENALI, the first large-scale real-world dataset of space-time histograms from low-cost LiDARs capturing hidden objects. We capture time-resolved LiDAR histograms for 72,000 hidden-object scenes across diverse object shapes, positions, lighting conditions, and spatial resolutions. Using our dataset, we show that consumer LiDARs can enable accurate, data-driven NLOS perception. We further identify key scene and modeling factors that limit performance, as well as simulation-fidelity gaps that hinder current sim-to-real transfer, motivating future work toward scalable NLOS vision with consumer LiDARs.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表