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Camera calibration is a crucial step in photogrammetry and 3D vision applications. This paper introduces a novel camera calibration method using a designed collimator system. Our collimator system provides a reliable and controllable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shunkun Liang , Banglei Guan , Zhenbao Yu , Dongcai Tan , Pengju Sun , Zibin Liu , Qifeng Yu , Yang Shang

Constructing precise global maps is a key task in robotics and is required for localization, surveying, monitoring, or constructing digital twins. To build accurate maps, data from mobile 3D LiDAR sensors is often used. Mapping requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Louis Wiesmann , Elias Marks , Saurabh Gupta , Tiziano Guadagnino , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Camera and 3D LiDAR sensors have become indispensable devices in modern autonomous driving vehicles, where the camera provides the fine-grained texture, color information in 2D space and LiDAR captures more precise and farther-away distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Lin Zhao , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Xiao Song , Hongsheng Li , Wenbing Tao

Accurate and reliable sensor calibration is essential to fuse LiDAR and inertial measurements, which are usually available in robotic applications. In this paper, we propose a novel LiDAR-IMU calibration method within the continuous-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Jiajun Lv , Xingxing Zuo , Kewei Hu , Jinhong Xu , Guoquan Huang , Yong Liu

Cameras and LiDAR are essential sensors for autonomous vehicles. The fusion of camera and LiDAR data addresses the limitations of individual sensors but relies on precise extrinsic calibration. Recently, numerous end-to-end calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ni Ou , Zhuo Chen , Xinru Zhang , Junzheng Wang

Accurate 3D reconstruction using multi-camera RGB-D systems critically depends on precise extrinsic calibration to achieve proper alignment between captured views. In this paper, we introduce an iterative extrinsic calibration method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Nahuel Garcia-D'Urso , Bernabe Sanchez-Sos , Jorge Azorin-Lopez , Andres Fuster-Guillo , Antonio Macia-Lillo , Higinio Mora-Mora

Co-Registration of aerial imagery and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data is quilt challenging because the different imaging mechanism causes significant geometric and radiometric distortions between such data. To tackle the problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Bai Zhu , Yuanxin Ye , Chao Yang , Liang Zhou , Huiyu Liu , Yungang Cao

The goal of extrinsic calibration is the alignment of sensor data to ensure an accurate representation of the surroundings and enable sensor fusion applications. From a safety perspective, sensor calibration is a key enabler of autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ilir Tahiraj , Jeremialie Swadiryus , Felix Fent , Markus Lienkamp

Determining the position and orientation of a calibrated camera from a single image with respect to a 3D model is an essential task for many applications. When 2D-3D correspondences can be obtained reliably, perspective-n-point solvers can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Dylan Campbell , Lars Petersson , Laurent Kneip , Hongdong Li , Stephen Gould

This paper proposes a new extrinsic calibration of kaleidoscopic imaging system by estimating normals and distances of the mirrors. The problem to be solved in this paper is a simultaneous estimation of all mirror parameters consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Kosuke Takahashi , Akihiro Miyata , Shohei Nobuhara , Takashi Matsuyama

With 3D sensing becoming cheaper, environment-aware and visually-guided robot arms capable of safely working in collaboration with humans will become common. However, a reliable calibration is needed, both for camera internal calibration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Justinas Miseikis , Kyrre Glette , Ole Jakob Elle , Jim Torresen

We propose a method for automatic calibration of a traffic surveillance camera with wide-angle lenses. Video footage of a few minutes is sufficient for the entire calibration process to take place. This method takes in the height of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Aman Gajendra Jain , Nicolas Saunier

LiDAR and camera are two important sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Despite the increasing popularity of sensor fusion in this field, the robustness against inferior image conditions, e.g., bad illumination and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xuyang Bai , Zeyu Hu , Xinge Zhu , Qingqiu Huang , Yilun Chen , Hongbo Fu , Chiew-Lan Tai

Conventional single LiDAR systems are inherently constrained by their limited field of view (FoV), leading to blind spots and incomplete environmental awareness, particularly on robotic platforms with strict payload limitations. Integrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jianping Li , Zhongyuan Liu , Xinhang Xu , Jinxin Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Fang Xu , Lihua Xie

Both, robot and hand-eye calibration haven been object to research for decades. While current approaches manage to precisely and robustly identify the parameters of a robot's kinematic model, they still rely on external devices, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Arne Peters

In self-driving applications, LiDAR data provides accurate information about distances in 3D but lacks the semantic richness of camera data. Therefore, state-of-the-art methods for perception in urban scenes fuse data from both sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Royden Wagner , Marvin Klemp , Carlos Fernandez Lopez

4D imaging radar is a type of low-cost millimeter-wave radar(costing merely 10-20$\%$ of lidar systems) capable of providing range, azimuth, elevation, and Doppler velocity information. Accurate extrinsic calibration between millimeter-wave…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Chuan Cao , Xiaoning Wang , Wenqian Xi , Han Zhang , Weidong Chen , Jingchuan Wang

Currently, there are no learning-free or neural techniques for real-time recalibration of infrared multi-camera systems. In this paper, we address the challenge of real-time, highly-accurate calibration of multi-camera infrared systems, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Benyamin Mehmandar , Reza Talakoob , Charalambos Poullis

Localization, or position fixing, is an important problem in robotics research. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for long-term localization in a changing environment using 3D LiDAR. We first create the map of a real environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yilong Zhu , Bohuan Xue , Linwei Zheng , Huaiyang Huang , Ming Liu , Rui Fan

Many underwater applications rely on vision sensors and require proper camera calibration, i.e. knowing the incoming light ray for each pixel in the image. While for the ideal pinhole camera model all viewing rays intersect in a single 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Felix Seegräber , Mengkun She , Felix Woelk , Kevin Köser