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Accurate and reliable sensor calibration is critical for fusing LiDAR and inertial measurements in autonomous driving. This paper proposes a novel three-stage extrinsic calibration method between LiDAR and GNSS/INS for autonomous driving.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Guohang Yan , Jiahao Pi , Chengjie Wang , Xinyu Cai , Yikang Li

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

The research on extrinsic calibration between Light Detection and Ranging(LiDAR) and camera are being promoted to a more accurate, automatic and generic manner. Since deep learning has been employed in calibration, the restrictions on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhaotong Luo , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li

Accurate LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is a precondition for many multi-sensor systems in mobile robots. Most calibration methods rely on laborious manual operations and calibration targets. While working online, the calibration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xin Jing , Xiaqing Ding , Rong Xiong , Huanjun Deng , Yue Wang

While camera and LiDAR are widely used in most of the assisted and autonomous driving systems, only a few works have been proposed to associate the temporal synchronization and extrinsic calibration for camera and LiDAR which are dedicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shouan Wang , Xinyu Zhang , GuiPeng Zhang , Yijin Xiong , Ganglin Tian , Shichun Guo , Jun Li

Estimating camera intrinsic parameters without prior scene knowledge is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. This capability is particularly important for applications such as autonomous driving and vehicle platooning, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gregory Schroeder , Mohamed Sabry , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

External effects such as shocks and temperature variations affect the calibration of visual-inertial sensor systems and thus they cannot fully rely on factory calibrations. Re-calibrations performed on short user-collected datasets might…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Thomas Schneider , Mingyang Li , Cesar Cadena , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart

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

Accurate camera calibration is crucial for various computer vision applications. However, measuring calibration accuracy in the real world is challenging due to the lack of datasets with ground truth to evaluate them. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Lars Krupp , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-sensor fusion, existing methods rely on structured targets or fully-excited data, limiting real-world applicability. Online calibration further suffers from weak excitation, leading to unreliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Baorun Li , Chengrui Zhu , Siyi Du , Bingran Chen , Jie Ren , Wenfei Wang , Yong Liu , Jiajun Lv

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

4D radar has emerged as a critical sensor for autonomous driving, primarily due to its enhanced capabilities in elevation measurement and higher resolution compared to traditional 3D radar. Effective integration of 4D radar with cameras…

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

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

Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) require accurate calibration of LiDARs and cameras to fuse sensor data accurately for autonomy. Traditional calibration methods typically leverage fiducials captured in a controlled and structured scene and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Ze Yang , George Chen , Haowei Zhang , Kevin Ta , Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Daniel Murphy , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Raquel Urtasun

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

Sensor-based environmental perception is a crucial step for autonomous driving systems, for which an accurate calibration between multiple sensors plays a critical role. For the calibration of LiDAR and camera, the existing method is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Guohang Yan , Feiyu He , Chunlei Shi , Xinyu Cai , Yikang Li

Computer model calibration is a crucial step in building a reliable computer model. In the face of massive physical observations, a fast estimation for the calibration parameters is urgently needed. To alleviate the computational burden, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Shurui Lv , Yan Wang , Jun Yu

Force and torque sensing is crucial in robotic manipulation across both collaborative and industrial settings. Traditional methods for dynamics identification enable the detection and control of external forces and torques without the need…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Shilin Shan , Quang-Cuong Pham

In this paper, we present a user-friendly LiDAR-camera calibration toolkit that is compatible with various LiDAR and camera sensors and requires only a single pair of laser points and a camera image in targetless environments. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Haoxin Zhang , Shuaixin Li , Xiaozhou Zhu , Hongbo Chen , Wen Yao