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Sensor setups consisting of a combination of 3D range scanner lasers and stereo vision systems are becoming a popular choice for on-board perception systems in vehicles; however, the combined use of both sources of information implies a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Carlos Guindel , Jorge Beltrán , David Martín , Fernando García

Accurate LiDAR-Camera (LC) calibration is challenging but crucial for autonomous systems and robotics. In this paper, we propose two single-shot and target-less algorithms to estimate the calibration parameters between LiDAR and camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

This paper presents an open source LiDAR-camera calibration toolbox that is general to LiDAR and camera projection models, requires only one pairing of LiDAR and camera data without a calibration target, and is fully automatic. For…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Kenji Koide , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Atsuhiko Banno

Current traditional methods for LiDAR-camera extrinsics estimation depend on offline targets and human efforts, while learning-based approaches resort to iterative refinement for calibration results, posing constraints on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shuang Xu , Sifan Zhou , Zhi Tian , Jizhou Ma , Qiong Nie , Xiangxiang Chu

Fusion of heterogeneous extroceptive sensors is the most effient and effective way to representing the environment precisely, as it overcomes various defects of each homogeneous sensor. The rigid transformation (aka. extrinsic parameters)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Qinghai Liao , Ming Liu , Lei Tai , Haoyang Ye

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

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

Accurate camera-to-lidar calibration is a requirement for sensor data fusion in many 3D perception tasks. In this paper, we present SceneCalib, a novel method for simultaneous self-calibration of extrinsic and intrinsic parameters in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Ayon Sen , Gang Pan , Anton Mitrokhin , Ashraful Islam

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

For an autonomous vehicle, the ability to sense its surroundings and to build an overall representation of the environment by fusing different sensor data streams is fundamental. To this end, the poses of all sensors need to be accurately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Brahayam Ponton , Magda Ferri , Lars Koenig , Marcus Bartels

Mobile robots equipped with multiple light detection and ranging (LiDARs) and capable of recognizing their surroundings are increasing due to the minitualization and cost reduction of LiDAR. This paper proposes a target-less extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Shun Niijima , Atsushi Suzuki , Ryoichi Tsuzaki , Masaya Kinoshita

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

Sensor setups of robotic platforms commonly include both camera and LiDAR as they provide complementary information. However, fusing these two modalities typically requires a highly accurate calibration between them. In this paper, we…

This letter proposes an extrinsic calibration approach for a pair of monocular camera and prism-spinning solid-state LiDAR. The unique characteristics of the point cloud measured resulting from the flower-like scanning pattern is first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiahui Liu , Xingqun Zhan , Cheng Chi , Xin Zhang , Chuanrun Zhai

LiDAR-camera systems have become increasingly popular in robotics recently. A critical and initial step in integrating the LiDAR and camera data is the calibration of the LiDAR-camera system. Most existing calibration methods rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Shuyi Zhou , Shuxiang Xie , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi

LIDAR and RADAR are two commonly used sensors in autonomous driving systems. The extrinsic calibration between the two is crucial for effective sensor fusion. The challenge arises due to the low accuracy and sparse information in RADAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peng Jiang , Srikanth Saripalli

Calibration of multi-camera systems, i.e. determining the relative poses between the cameras, is a prerequisite for many tasks in computer vision and robotics. Camera calibration is typically achieved using offline methods that use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Bastian Pätzold , Simon Bultmann , Sven Behnke

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

In order to fuse measurements from multiple sensors mounted on a mobile robot, it is needed to express them in a common reference system through their relative spatial transformations. In this paper, we present a method to estimate the full…

We present a novel method for extrinsically calibrating a camera and a 2D Laser Rangefinder (LRF) whose beams are invisible from the camera image. We show that point-to-plane constraints from a single observation of a V-shaped calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Wenbo Dong , Volkan Isler