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The combination of data from multiple sensors, also known as sensor fusion or data fusion, is a key aspect in the design of autonomous robots. In particular, algorithms able to accommodate sensor fusion techniques enable increased accuracy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Li Qingqing , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tuan Nguyen Gia , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

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

Surround-View System (SVS) is an essential component in Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and requires precise calibrations. However, conventional offline extrinsic calibration methods are cumbersome and time-consuming as they rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Lihao Wang

LiDARs plays an important role in self-driving cars and its configuration such as the location placement for each LiDAR can influence object detection performance. This paper aims to investigate an optimal configuration that maximizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Shenyu Mou , Yan Chang , Wenshuo Wang , Ding Zhao

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

With the recent advances in autonomous driving and the decreasing cost of LiDARs, the use of multimodal sensor systems is on the rise. However, in order to make use of the information provided by a variety of complimentary sensors, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Quentin Herau , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Luis Roldão , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Cyrille Migniot , Pascal Vasseur , Cédric Demonceaux

Multi-camera systems are an important sensor platform for intelligent systems such as self-driving cars. Pattern-based calibration techniques can be used to calibrate the intrinsics of the cameras individually. However, extrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yukai Lin , Viktor Larsson , Marcel Geppert , Zuzana Kukelova , Marc Pollefeys , Torsten Sattler

Visual-Inertial (VI) sensors are popular in robotics, self-driving vehicles, and augmented and virtual reality applications. In order to use them for any computer vision or state-estimation task, a good calibration is essential. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Christopher L. Choi , Binbin Xu , Stefan Leutenegger

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

Color-depth cameras (RGB-D cameras) have become the primary sensors in most robotics systems, from service robotics to industrial robotics applications. Typical consumer-grade RGB-D cameras are provided with a coarse intrinsic and extrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Filippo Basso , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

We propose a solution for sensor extrinsic self-calibration with very low time complexity, competitive accuracy and graceful handling of often-avoided corner cases: drift in calibration parameters and unobservable directions in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Fernando Nobre , Christoffer Heckman

Precise LiDAR-camera calibration is crucial for integrating these two sensors into robotic systems to achieve robust perception. In applications like autonomous driving, online targetless calibration enables a prompt sensor misalignment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu Han , Xubo Zhu , Ji Wu , Ximeng Cai , Wen Yang , Huai Yu , Gui-Song Xia

LiDAR-based 3D mapping suffers from cumulative drift causing global misalignment, particularly in GNSS-constrained environments. To address this, we propose a unified framework that fuses LiDAR, GNSS, and IMU data for high-resolution…

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

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

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for real-time LiDAR and camera synthesis in autonomous driving simulation. However, simulating LiDAR with 3DGS remains challenging for extrapolated views beyond the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiming Huang , Xin Kang , Sipeng Zhang , Hongliang Ren , Weihua Zhang , Junjie Lai

We present a novel approach for mobile manipulator self-calibration using contact information. Our method, based on point cloud registration, is applied to estimate the extrinsic transform between a fixed vision sensor mounted on a mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Oliver Limoyo , Trevor Ablett , Filip Marić , Luke Volpatti , Jonathan Kelly

This paper presents a novel 3D mapping robot with an omnidirectional field-of-view (FoV) sensor suite composed of a non-repetitive LiDAR and an omnidirectional camera. Thanks to the non-repetitive scanning nature of the LiDAR, an automatic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Ziliang Miao , Buwei He , Wenya Xie , Wenquan Zhao , Xiao Huang , Jian Bai , Xiaoping Hong

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