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LECalib: Line-Based Event Camera Calibration

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-01-06 v1

Abstract

Camera calibration is an essential prerequisite for event-based vision applications. Current event camera calibration methods typically involve using flashing patterns, reconstructing intensity images, and utilizing the features extracted from events. Existing methods are generally time-consuming and require manually placed calibration objects, which cannot meet the needs of rapidly changing scenarios. In this paper, we propose a line-based event camera calibration framework exploiting the geometric lines of commonly-encountered objects in man-made environments, e.g., doors, windows, boxes, etc. Different from previous methods, our method detects lines directly from event streams and leverages an event-line calibration model to generate the initial guess of camera parameters, which is suitable for both planar and non-planar lines. Then, a non-linear optimization is adopted to refine camera parameters. Both simulation and real-world experiments have demonstrated the feasibility and accuracy of our method, with validation performed on monocular and stereo event cameras. The source code is released at https://github.com/Zibin6/line_based_event_camera_calib.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22441,
  title  = {LECalib: Line-Based Event Camera Calibration},
  author = {Zibin Liu and Banglei Guan and Yang Shang and Zhenbao Yu and Yifei Bian and Qifeng Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22441},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 Pages, 6 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:42:19.056Z