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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

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

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

This paper presents a method for extrinsic camera calibration (estimation of camera rotation and translation matrices) from a sequence of images. It is assumed camera intrinsic matrix and distortion coefficients are known and fixed during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Jacek Komorowski , Przemyslaw Rokita

Precise sensor calibration is critical for autonomous vehicles as a prerequisite for perception algorithms to function properly. Rotation error of one degree can translate to position error of meters in target object detection at large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhongyuan Li , Honggang Gou , Ping Li , Jiaotong Guo , Mao Ye

With the development of neural networks and the increasing popularity of automatic driving, the calibration of the LiDAR and the camera has attracted more and more attention. This calibration task is multi-modal, where the rich color and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Pengjin Wei , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li , Kun Fang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

Accurate calibration of sensor extrinsic parameters for ground robotic systems (i.e., relative poses) is crucial for ensuring spatial alignment and achieving high-performance perception. However, existing calibration methods typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jiang Wang , Yaozhong Kang , Linya Fu , Kazuhiro Nakadai , He Kong

We present a solution to the problem of spatio-temporal calibration for event cameras mounted on an onmi-directional vehicle. Different from traditional methods that typically determine the camera's pose with respect to the vehicle's body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xiao Li , Yi Zhou , Ruibin Guo , Xin Peng , Zongtan Zhou , Huimin Lu

LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration (LCEC) is crucial for multi-modal data fusion in autonomous robotic systems. Existing methods, whether target-based or target-free, typically rely on customized calibration targets or fixed scene types,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhiwei Huang , Jiaqi Li , Hongbo Zhao , Xiao Ma , Ping Zhong , Xiaohu Zhou , Wei Ye , Rui Fan

This work presents a centralized multi-IMU filter framework with online intrinsic and extrinsic calibration for unsynchronized inertial measurement units that is robust against changes in calibration parameters. The novel EKF-based method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Jacob Hartzer , Srikanth Saripalli

Recently, multi-sensors fusion has achieved significant progress in the field of automobility to improve navigation and position performance. As the prerequisite of the fusion algorithm, the demand for the extrinsic calibration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hou lanhua

Correct fusion of data from two sensors is not possible without an accurate estimate of their relative pose, which can be determined through the process of extrinsic calibration. When two or more sensors are capable of producing their own…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Emmett Wise , Matthew Giamou , Soroush Khoubyarian , Abhinav Grover , Jonathan Kelly

Perception is one of the key abilities of autonomous mobile robotic systems, which often relies on fusion of heterogeneous sensors. Although this heterogeneity presents a challenge for sensor calibration, it is also the main prospect for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Juraj Peršić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

In this paper, we propose a method for online extrinsic camera calibration, i.e., estimating pitch, yaw, roll angles and camera height from road surface in sequential driving scene images. The proposed method estimates the extrinsic camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jeong-Kyun Lee , Young-Ki Baik , Hankyu Cho , Seungwoo Yoo

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…

This paper presents a novel online capable method for simultaneous estimation of human motion in terms of segment orientations and positions along with sensor-to-segment calibration parameters from inertial sensors attached to the body. In…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Bertram Taetz , Gabriele Bleser , Markus Miezal

6-Degree of Freedom (6DoF) motion estimation with a combination of visual and inertial sensors is a growing area with numerous real-world applications. However, precise calibration of the time offset between these two sensor types is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yunfei Fan , Tianyu Zhao , Linan Guo , Chen Chen , Xin Wang , Fengyi Zhou

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

This paper presents a framework for the targetless extrinsic calibration of stereo cameras and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors with a non-overlapping Field of View (FOV). In order to solve the extrinsic calibrations problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Jinyong Jeong , Lucas Y. Cho , Ayoung Kim

Consistent motion estimation is fundamental for all mobile autonomous systems. While this sounds like an easy task, often, it is not the case because of changing environmental conditions affecting odometry obtained from vision, Lidar, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Karim Haggag , Sven Lange , Tim Pfeifer , Peter Protzel