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The integrated inertial system, typically integrating an IMU and an exteroceptive sensor such as radar, LiDAR, and camera, has been widely accepted and applied in modern robotic applications for ego-motion estimation, motion control, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shuolong Chen , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Yuxuan Zhou , Xiaoteng Yang

In this paper, we discuss an imitation learning based method for reducing the calibration error for a mixed reality system consisting of a vision sensor and a projector. Unlike a head mounted display, in this setup, augmented information is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shubham Sonawani , Yifan Zhou , Heni Ben Amor

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

We present a method of extrinsic calibration for a system of multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) that estimates the relative pose of each IMU on a rigid body using only measurements from the IMUs themselves, without the need to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jongwon Lee , David Hanley , Timothy Bretl

Sensor fusion has become a popular topic in robotics. However, conventional fusion methods encounter many difficulties, such as data representation differences, sensor variations, and extrinsic calibration. For example, the calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Shuyi Zhou , Shuxiang Xie , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Ken Sakurada , Masaki Onishi , Takeshi Oishi

Sensor fusion is crucial for a performant and robust Perception system in autonomous vehicles, but sensor staleness, where data from different sensors arrives with varying delays, poses significant challenges. Temporal misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Meng Fan , Yifan Zuo , Patrick Blaes , Harley Montgomery , Subhasis Das

Multimodal sensor fusion enables robust environmental perception by leveraging complementary information from heterogeneous sensing modalities. However, accurate calibration is a critical prerequisite for effective fusion. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Qiyang Lyu , Wei Wang , Zhenyu Wu , Hongming Shen , Huiqin Zhou , Danwei Wang

Despite the increasing interest in enhancing perception systems for autonomous vehicles, the online calibration between event cameras and LiDAR - two sensors pivotal in capturing comprehensive environmental information - remains unexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Mathieu Cocheteux , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

LiDAR-camera fusion is one of the core processes for the perception system of current automated driving systems. The typical sensor fusion process includes a list of coordinate transformation operations following system calibration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dan Shen , Zhengming Zhang , Renran Tian , Yaobin Chen , Rini Sherony

Multi-modal object detection in autonomous driving has achieved great breakthroughs due to the usage of fusing complementary information from different sensors. The calibration in fusion between sensors such as LiDAR and camera was always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Zhihang Song , Dingyi Yao , Ruibo Ming , Lihui Peng , Danya Yao , Yi Zhang

Understanding terrain topology at long-range is crucial for the success of off-road robotic missions, especially when navigating at high-speeds. LiDAR sensors, which are currently heavily relied upon for geometric mapping, provide sparse…

We present a certifiably globally optimal algorithm for determining the extrinsic calibration between two sensors that are capable of producing independent egomotion estimates. This problem has been previously solved using a variety of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Matthew Giamou , Ziye Ma , Valentin Peretroukhin , Jonathan Kelly

Accurate calibration is crucial for using multiple cameras to triangulate the position of objects precisely. However, it is also a time-consuming process that needs to be repeated for every displacement of the cameras. The standard approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Thomas Gossard , Andreas Ziegler , Levin Kolmar , Jonas Tebbe , Andreas Zell

Calibration of sensors is fundamental to robust performance for intelligent vehicles. In natural environments, disturbances can easily challenge calibration. One possibility is to use natural objects of known shape to recalibrate sensors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Yunhai Han , Yuhan Liu , David Paz , Henrik Christensen

In this paper we present a new implementation of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) for the calibration of sensors. We propose that the VAE can be used to calibrate sensor data by training the latent space as a calibration output. We discuss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Travis Barrett , Amit Kumar Mishra , Joyce Mwangama

Event-based cameras are increasingly utilized in various applications, owing to their high temporal resolution and low power consumption. However, a fundamental challenge arises when deploying multiple such cameras: they operate on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Wanli Xing , Shijie Lin , Guangze Zheng , Yanjun Du , Jia Pan

This paper presents MFCalib, an innovative extrinsic calibration technique for LiDAR and RGB camera that operates automatically in targetless environments with a single data capture. At the heart of this method is using a rich set of edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tianyong Ye , Wei Xu , Chunran Zheng , Yukang Cui

Autonomous robots that assist humans in day to day living tasks are becoming increasingly popular. Autonomous mobile robots operate by sensing and perceiving their surrounding environment to make accurate driving decisions. A combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Varuna De Silva , Jamie Roche , Ahmet Kondoz

The reconstruction of a scene via a stereo-camera system is a two-steps process, where at first images from different cameras are matched to identify the set of point-to-point correspondences that then will actually be reconstructed in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Riccardo Beschi , Xiao Feng , Stefania Melillo , Leonardo Parisi , Lorena Postiglione

Robotic calibration allows for the fusion of data from multiple sensors such as odometers, cameras, etc., by providing appropriate transformational relationships between the corresponding reference frames. For wheeled robots equipped with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Mohan Krishna Nutalapati , Lavish Arora , Anway Bose , Ketan Rajawat , Rajesh M Hegde