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Accurate multi-sensor calibration is essential for deploying robust perception systems in applications such as autonomous driving and intelligent transportation. Existing LiDAR-camera calibration methods often rely on manually placed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lei Cheng , Lihao Guo , Tianya Zhang , Tam Bang , Austin Harris , Mustafa Hajij , Mina Sartipi , Siyang Cao

Determining the extrinsic parameter between multiple LiDARs and cameras is essential for autonomous robots, especially for solid-state LiDARs, where each LiDAR unit has a very small Field-of-View (FoV), and multiple units are often used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Xiyuan Liu , Chongjian Yuan , Fu Zhang

Over the past decade, lidars have become a cornerstone of robotics state estimation and perception thanks to their ability to provide accurate geometric information about their surroundings in the form of 3D scans. Unfortunately, most of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Cedric Le Gentil , Raphael Falque , Teresa Vidal-Calleja

The common approach to inertial sensor calibration for navigation purposes has been to model the stochastic error signals of individual sensors independently, whether as components of a single inertial measurement unit (IMU) in different…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-02 Haotian Xu , Stéphane Guerrier , Roberto Molinari , Mucyo Karemera

Integrating multiple LiDAR sensors can significantly enhance a robot's perception of the environment, enabling it to capture adequate measurements for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Indeed, solid-state LiDARs can bring in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Li Qingqing , Yu Xianjia , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Current perception systems often carry multimodal imagers and sensors such as 2D cameras and 3D LiDAR sensors. To fuse and utilize the data for downstream perception tasks, robust and accurate calibration of the multimodal sensor data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ganning Zhao , Jiesi Hu , Suya You , C. -C. Jay Kuo

We present a robust system for state estimation that fuses measurements from multiple lidars and inertial sensors with GNSS data. To initiate the method, we use the prior GNSS pose information. We then perform incremental motion in…

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

Calibrating the extrinsic parameters of sensory devices is crucial for fusing multi-modal data. Recently, event cameras have emerged as a promising type of neuromorphic sensors, with many potential applications in fields such as mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wanli Xing , Shijie Lin , Lei Yang , Jia Pan

LiDAR odometry is the task of estimating the ego-motion of the sensor from sequential laser scans. This problem has been addressed by the community for more than two decades, and many effective solutions are available nowadays. Most of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Simone Ferrari , Luca Di Giammarino , Leonardo Brizi , Giorgio Grisetti

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

In this paper, we address extrinsic calibration for camera, lidar, and 4D radar sensors. Accurate extrinsic calibration of radar remains a challenge due to the sparsity of its data. We propose CLRNet, a novel, multi-modal end-to-end deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Marcell Kegl , Andras Palffy , Csaba Benedek , Dariu M. Gavrila

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

In this paper, we propose a method of targetless and automatic Camera-LiDAR calibration. Our approach is an extension of hand-eye calibration framework to 2D-3D calibration. By using the sensor fusion odometry method, the scaled camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Multi-LiDAR systems have been prevalently applied in modern autonomous vehicles to render a broad view of the environments. The rapid development of 5G wireless technologies has brought a breakthrough for current cellular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Bohuan Xue , Jianhao Jiao , Yilong Zhu , Linwei Zheng , Dong Han , Ming Liu , Rui Fan

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

In this paper we present a novel algorithm for onboard radial distortion correction for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with an inertial measurement unit (IMU), that runs in real-time. This approach makes calibration procedures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Marcus Valtonen Örnhag , Patrik Persson , Mårten Wadenbäck , Kalle Åström , Anders Heyden

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

Pose estimation purely based on 3D point-cloud could suffer from degradation, e.g. scan blocks or scans in repetitive environments. To deal with this problem, we propose an approach for fusing 3D spinning LiDAR and IMU to estimate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Haoyang Ye , Ming Liu

The accurate and robust calibration result of sensors is considered as an important building block to the follow-up research in the autonomous driving and robotics domain. The current works involving extrinsic calibration between 3D LiDARs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Su Wang , Shini Zhang , Xuchong Qiu

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