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We present a novel target-based lidar-camera extrinsic calibration methodology that can be used for non-overlapping field of view (FOV) sensors. Contrary to previous work, our methodology overcomes the non-overlapping FOV challenge using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Nicholas Charron , Huaiyuan Weng , Steven L. Waslander , Sriram Narasimhan

Automated driving systems use multi-modal sensor suites to ensure the reliable, redundant and robust perception of the operating domain, for example camera and LiDAR. An accurate extrinsic calibration is required to fuse the camera and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jack Borer , Jeremy Tschirner , Florian Ölsner , Stefan Milz

In this paper, we present TEScalib, a novel extrinsic self-calibration approach of LiDAR and stereo camera using the geometric and photometric information of surrounding environments without any calibration targets for automated driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Haohao Hu , Fengze Han , Frank Bieder , Jan-Hendrik Pauls , Christoph Stiller

Camera calibration is integral to robotics and computer vision algorithms that seek to infer geometric properties of the scene from visual input streams. In practice, calibration is a laborious procedure requiring specialized data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jiading Fang , Igor Vasiljevic , Vitor Guizilini , Rares Ambrus , Greg Shakhnarovich , Adrien Gaidon , Matthew R. Walter

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

Many robotics and mapping systems contain multiple sensors to perceive the environment. Extrinsic parameter calibration, the identification of the position and rotation transform between the frames of the different sensors, is critical to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Hongyu Chen , Sören Schwertfeger

Camera calibration is a process of paramount importance in computer vision applications that require accurate quantitative measurements. The popular method developed by Zhang relies on the use of a large number of images of a planar grid of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Katia Genovese

Acoustic cameras have found many applications in practice. Accurate and reliable extrinsic calibration of the microphone array and visual sensors within acoustic cameras is crucial for fusing visual and auditory measurements. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Zhi Li , Jiang Wang , Xiaoyang Li , He Kong

This letter presents a novel method to estimate the relative poses between RGB-D cameras with minimal overlapping fields of view in a panoramic RGB-D camera system. This calibration problem is relevant to applications such as indoor 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-11 Hang Liu , Hengyu Li , Xiahua Liu , Jun Luo , Shaorong Xie , Yu Sun

Automatic calibration of multi-camera systems, namely the accurate estimation of spatial extrinsic parameters, is fundamental for 3D reconstruction, panoramic perception, and multi-view data fusion. Existing methods typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chentian Sun

Can freely moving humans or animals themselves serve as calibration targets for multi-camera systems while simultaneously estimating their correspondences across views? We humans can solve this problem by mentally rotating the observed 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Sang-Eun Lee , Ko Nishino , Shohei Nobuhara

Accurate extrinsic sensor calibration is essential for both autonomous vehicles and robots. Traditionally this is an involved process requiring calibration targets, known fiducial markers and is generally performed in a lab. Moreover, even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Celyn Walters , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Richard Bowden

LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-modal data fusion in robotic perception systems. However, existing approaches typically rely on handcrafted calibration targets (e.g., checkerboards) or specific, static scene types,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhiwei Huang , Yanwei Fu , Yi Zhou , Xieyuanli Chen , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

The combination of LiDARs and cameras enables a mobile robot to perceive environments with multi-modal data, becoming a key factor in achieving robust perception. Traditional frame cameras are sensitive to changing illumination conditions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jianhao Jiao , Feiyi Chen , Hexiang Wei , Jin Wu , Ming Liu

Event cameras generate asynchronous signals in response to pixel-level brightness changes, offering a sensing paradigm with theoretically microsecond-scale latency that can significantly enhance the performance of multi-sensor systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jiayao Mai , Xiuyuan Lu , Kuan Dai , Shaojie Shen , Yi Zhou

Reliable operation in inclement weather is essential to the deployment of safe autonomous vehicles (AVs). Robustness and reliability can be achieved by fusing data from the standard AV sensor suite (i.e., lidars, cameras) with weather…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Emmett Wise , Juraj Peršić , Christopher Grebe , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

We address the problem of epipolar geometry using the motion of silhouettes. Such methods match epipolar lines or frontier points across views, which are then used as the set of putative correspondences. We introduce an approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Gil Ben-Artzi

We present a novel solution to the camera pose estimation problem, where rotation and translation of a camera between two views are estimated from matched feature points in the images. The camera pose estimation problem is traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Kaveh Fathian , J. Pablo Ramirez-Paredes , Emily A. Doucette , J. Willard Curtis , Nicholas R. Gans

Extrinsic Calibration represents the cornerstone of autonomous driving. Its accuracy plays a crucial role in the perception pipeline, as any errors can have implications for the safety of the vehicle. Modern sensor systems collect different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lorenzo Gentilini , Pierpaolo Serio , Valentina Donzella , Lorenzo Pollini

Camera calibration is a crucial step in robotics and computer vision. Accurate camera parameters are necessary to achieve robust applications. Nowadays, camera calibration process consists of adjusting a set of data to a pin-hole model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Carlos Ricolfe-Viala , Alicia Esparza