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Accurate and robust extrinsic calibration is necessary for deploying autonomous systems which need multiple sensors for perception. In this paper, we present a robust system for real-time extrinsic calibration of multiple lidars in vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Ludvig af Klinteberg , Maurice Fallon , Saikat Chatterjee

For autonomous vehicles, an accurate calibration for LiDAR and camera is a prerequisite for multi-sensor perception systems. However, existing calibration techniques require either a complicated setting with various calibration targets, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tao Ma , Zhizheng Liu , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li

We present a novel multi-modal extrinsic calibration framework designed to simultaneously estimate the relative poses between event cameras, LiDARs, and RGB cameras, with particular focus on the challenging event camera calibration. Core of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andrea Bertogalli , Giacomo Boracchi , Luca Magri

LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration (LCEC) is crucial for multi-modal data fusion in autonomous robotic systems. Existing methods, whether target-based or target-free, typically rely on customized calibration targets or fixed scene types,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhiwei Huang , Jiaqi Li , Hongbo Zhao , Xiao Ma , Ping Zhong , Xiaohu Zhou , Wei Ye , Rui Fan

Sensor calibration, which can be intrinsic or extrinsic, is an essential step to achieve the measurement accuracy required for modern perception and navigation systems deployed on autonomous robots. To date, intrinsic calibration models for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Chenxi Feng , Madhav Achar , Maani Ghaffari , Jessy W. Grizzle

Multi-agent systems, e.g., automobiles and UAVs (Unmanned Ariel Vehicles), rely on the precision of onboard sensors to accurately perceive their environment, which in turn depends on the precision of onboard sensors and reliable in-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Bichi Zhang , Holger Caesar , Raj Thilak Rajan

Accurate point-wise velocity estimation in 3D is crucial for robot interaction with non-rigid dynamic agents, enabling robust performance in path planning, collision avoidance, and object manipulation in dynamic environments. To this end,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Landson Guo , Andres M. Diaz Aguilar , William Talbot , Turcan Tuna , Marco Hutter , Cesar Cadena

The homogeneous transformation between a LiDAR and monocular camera is required for sensor fusion tasks, such as SLAM. While determining such a transformation is not considered glamorous in any sense of the word, it is nonetheless crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Jessy W. Grizzle

Sensor calibration is the fundamental block for a multi-sensor fusion system. This paper presents an accurate and repeatable LiDAR-IMU calibration method (termed LI-Calib), to calibrate the 6-DOF extrinsic transformation between the 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jiajun Lv , Jinhong Xu , Kewei Hu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

As an essential procedure of data fusion, LiDAR-camera calibration is critical for autonomous vehicles and robot navigation. Most calibration methods rely on hand-crafted features and require significant amounts of extracted features or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Xudong Lv , Boya Wang , Ziwen Dou , Dong Ye , Shuo Wang

There are two critical sensors for 3D perception in autonomous driving, the camera and the LiDAR. The camera provides rich semantic information such as color, texture, and the LiDAR reflects the 3D shape and locations of surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kaicheng Yu , Tang Tao , Hongwei Xie , Zhiwei Lin , Zhongwei Wu , Zhongyu Xia , Tingting Liang , Haiyang Sun , Jiong Deng , Dayang Hao , Yongtao Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Bing Wang

We examine 3D reconstruction of architectural scenes in unordered sets of uncalibrated images. We introduce a linear method to self-calibrate and find the metric reconstruction of a camera pair. We assume unknown and different focal lengths…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Nikos Melanitis , Petros Maragos

Owing to the capability for reliable and all-weather long-range sensing, the fusion of LiDAR and Radar has been widely applied to autonomous vehicles for robust perception. In practical operation, well manually calibrated extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Weimin Wang , Yu Du , Ting Yang , Yu Liu

The fusion of LiDARs and cameras has been increasingly adopted in autonomous driving for perception tasks. The performance of such fusion-based algorithms largely depends on the accuracy of sensor calibration, which is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuxuan Xiao , Yao Li , Chengzhen Meng , Xingchen Li , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Circular targets are widely used in LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration due to their geometric consistency and ease of detection. However, achieving accurate 3D-2D circular center correspondence remains challenging. Existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiajun Jiang , Xiao Hu , Wancheng Liu , Wei Jiang

We demonstrate a multi-lidar calibration framework for large mobile platforms that jointly calibrate the extrinsic parameters of non-overlapping Field-of-View (FoV) lidar sensors, without the need for any external calibration aid. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Navid Mahabadi , Addi Djikic , Cesar Nassir , Saikat Chatterjee , Maurice Fallon

As neuromorphic technology is maturing, its application to robotics and autonomous vehicle systems has become an area of active research. In particular, event cameras have emerged as a compelling alternative to frame-based cameras in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Kevin Ta , David Bruggemann , Tim Brödermann , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool

Monocular camera sensors are vital to intelligent vehicle operation and automated driving assistance and are also heavily employed in traffic control infrastructure. Calibrating the monocular camera, though, is time-consuming and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Alexander Tsaregorodtsev , Johannes Müller , Jan Strohbeck , Martin Herrmann , Michael Buchholz , Vasileios Belagiannis

This paper introduces a novel self-supervised learning framework for enhancing 3D perception in autonomous driving scenes. Specifically, our approach, namely NCLR, focuses on 2D-3D neural calibration, a novel pretext task that estimates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yifan Zhang , Junhui Hou , Siyu Ren , Jinjian Wu , Yixuan Yuan , Guangming Shi

This paper presents a novel indoor layout estimation system based on the fusion of 2D LiDAR and intensity camera data. A ground robot explores an indoor space with a single floor and vertical walls, and collects a sequence of intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jieyu Li , Robert Stevenson