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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

Accurate extrinsic calibration of LiDAR, RADAR, and camera sensors is essential for reliable perception in autonomous vehicles. Still, it remains challenging due to factors such as mechanical vibrations and cumulative sensor drift in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Hafeez Husain Cholakkal , Stefano Arrigoni , Francesco Braghin

Optical motion capture (mocap) systems are widely used for ground-truth capture in AR/VR, SLAM and robotics datasets. These datasets require extrinsic calibration to align mocap coordinates to external camera frames -- a step that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Tianyi Liu , Christopher Twigg , Patrick Grady , Kevin Harris , Shangchen Han , Kun He

Accurate LiDAR-camera calibration is crucial for multi-sensor systems. However, traditional methods often rely on physical targets, which are impractical for real-world deployment. Moreover, even carefully calibrated extrinsics can degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haebeom Jung , Namtae Kim , Jungwoo Kim , Jaesik Park

Camera calibration involves estimating camera parameters to infer geometric features from captured sequences, which is crucial for computer vision and robotics. However, conventional calibration is laborious and requires dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Kang Liao , Lang Nie , Shujuan Huang , Chunyu Lin , Jing Zhang , Yao Zhao , Moncef Gabbouj , Dacheng Tao

Conventional single LiDAR systems are inherently constrained by their limited field of view (FoV), leading to blind spots and incomplete environmental awareness, particularly on robotic platforms with strict payload limitations. Integrating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jianping Li , Zhongyuan Liu , Xinhang Xu , Jinxin Liu , Shenghai Yuan , Fang Xu , Lihua Xie

Combining multiple sensors enables a robot to maximize its perceptual awareness of environments and enhance its robustness to external disturbance, crucial to robotic navigation. This paper proposes the FusionPortable benchmark, a complete…

The fusion of multi-modal sensors has become increasingly popular in autonomous driving and intelligent robots since it can provide richer information than any single sensor, enhance reliability in complex environments. Multi-sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Taimeng Fu , Huai Yu , Wen Yang , Yaoyu Hu , Sebastian Scherer

Mechanism calibration is an important and non-trivial task in robotics. Advances in sensor technology make affordable but increasingly accurate devices such as cameras and tactile sensors available, making it possible to perform automated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Karla Stepanova , Tomas Pajdla , Matej Hoffmann

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) fuse data from multiple sensors and sensing modalities to impart a measure of robustness when operating in adverse conditions. Radars and cameras are popular choices for use in sensor fusion; although radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Emmett Wise , Qilong Cheng , Jonathan Kelly

Sensors in high-precision mechatronic systems require accurate calibration, which is achieved using test beds that, in turn, require even more accurate calibration. The aim of this paper is to develop a cascaded calibration method for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Max van Meer , Emre Deniz , Gert Witvoet , Tom Oomen

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

Despite an emerging interest in MIMO radar, the utilization of its complementary strengths in combination with optical depth sensors has so far been limited to far-field applications, due to the challenges that arise from mutual sensor…

Robust and accurate visual-inertial estimation is crucial to many of today's challenges in robotics. Being able to localize against a prior map and obtain accurate and driftfree pose estimates can push the applicability of such systems even…

Spatial scene-understanding, including dense depth and ego-motion estimation, is an important problem in computer vision for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. Thus, it is beneficial to design perception modules…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Hemang Chawla , Matti Jukola , Shabbir Marzban , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Recent advances in visuotactile sensors increasingly employ biomimetic curved surfaces to enhance sensorimotor capabilities. Although such curved visuotactile sensors enable more conformal object contact, their perceptual quality is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xuhao Qin , Feiyu Zhao , Yatao Leng , Runze Hu , Chenxi Xiao

The integration of multiple cameras and 3D Li- DARs has become basic configuration of augmented reality devices, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. The calibration of multi-modal sensors is crucial for a system to properly function, but it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Chuan Fang , Shuai Ding , Zilong Dong , Honghua Li , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

Hand-eye calibration aims to estimate the transformation between a camera and a robot. Traditional methods rely on fiducial markers, which require considerable manual effort and precise setup. Recent advances in deep learning have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tutian Tang , Minghao Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Cewu Lu

We demonstrate a multi-lidar calibration framework for large mobile platforms that jointly calibrate the extrinsic parameters of non-overlapping Field-of-View (FoV) lidar sensors, without the need for any external calibration aid. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Navid Mahabadi , Addi Djikic , Cesar Nassir , Saikat Chatterjee , Maurice Fallon

In safety-critical applications a probabilistic model is usually required to be calibrated, i.e., to capture the uncertainty of its predictions accurately. In multi-class classification, calibration of the most confident predictions only is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-30 David Widmann , Fredrik Lindsten , Dave Zachariah