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Visual-inertial sensors have a wide range of applications in robotics. However, good performance often requires different sophisticated motion routines to accurately calibrate camera intrinsics and inter-sensor extrinsics. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yunke Ao , Le Chen , Florian Tschopp , Michel Breyer , Andrei Cramariuc , Roland Siegwart

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

Recent progress in the automated driving system (ADS) and advanced driver assistant system (ADAS) has shown that the combined use of 3D light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and the camera is essential for an intelligent vehicle to perceive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Yecheng Lyu , Lin Bai , Mahdi Elhousni , Xinming Huang

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

With the development of autonomous driving technology, sensor calibration has become a key technology to achieve accurate perception fusion and localization. Accurate calibration of the sensors ensures that each sensor can function properly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Jixiang Li , Jiahao Pi , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li

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

This paper presents a novel semantic-based online extrinsic calibration approach, SOIC (so, I see), for Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and camera sensors. Previous online calibration methods usually need prior knowledge of rough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Weimin Wang , Shohei Nobuhara , Ryosuke Nakamura , Ken Sakurada

This work proposes a novel motion guided method for target-less self-calibration of a LiDAR and camera and use the re-projection of LiDAR points onto the image reference frame for real-time depth upsampling. The calibration parameters are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Juan Castorena , Gint Puskorius , Gaurav Pandey

Sensor calibration usually is a time consuming yet important task. While classical approaches are sensor-specific and often need calibration targets as well as a widely overlapping field of view (FOV), within this work, a cooperative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Johannes Müller , Martin Herrmann , Jan Strohbeck , Vasileios Belagiannis , Michael Buchholz

The fusion of LiDARs and cameras has been increasingly adopted in autonomous driving for perception tasks. The performance of such fusion-based algorithms largely depends on the accuracy of sensor calibration, which is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuxuan Xiao , Yao Li , Chengzhen Meng , Xingchen Li , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a robust alternative to vision- and LiDAR-based odometry in challenging conditions such as low light, fog, featureless environments, or in adverse weather. However, many existing RIO approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Vlaho-Josip Štironja , Luka Petrović , Juraj Peršić , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

Most intelligent transportation systems use a combination of radar sensors and cameras for robust vehicle perception. The calibration of these heterogeneous sensor types in an automatic fashion during system operation is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Christoph Schöller , Maximilian Schnettler , Annkathrin Krämmer , Gereon Hinz , Maida Bakovic , Müge Güzet , Alois Knoll

In this paper we propose a real-time, calibration-agnostic and effective localization system for self-driving cars. Our method learns to embed the online LiDAR sweeps and intensity map into a joint deep embedding space. Localization is then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Shenlong Wang , Andrei Pokrovsky , Raquel Urtasun

In this paper, we present an accelerometer-based kinematic calibration algorithm to accurately estimate the pose of multiple sensor units distributed along a robot body. Our approach is self-contained, can be used on any robot provided with…

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

This paper proposes a simple self-calibration method for the internal time synchronization of MEMS(Micro-electromechanical systems) LiDAR during research and development. Firstly, we introduced the problem of internal time misalignment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yu Zhang , Xiaoguang Di , Shiyu Yan , Bin Zhang , Baoling Qi , Chunhui Wang

Recently, it has become popular to deploy sensors such as LiDARs on the roadside to monitor the passing traffic and assist autonomous vehicle perception. Unlike autonomous vehicle systems, roadside sensors are usually affiliated with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Haojie Ren , Sha Zhang , Sugang Li , Yao Li , Xinchen Li , Jianmin Ji , Yu Zhang , Yanyong Zhang

Visual-inertial fusion is crucial for a large amount of intelligent and autonomous applications, such as robot navigation and augmented reality. To bootstrap and achieve optimal state estimation, the spatial-temporal displacements between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Junlin Song , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

Autonomous vehicles require accurate and robust localization and mapping algorithms to navigate safely and reliably in urban environments. We present a novel sensor fusion-based pipeline for offline mapping and online localization based on…

This paper introduces a novel targetless method for joint intrinsic and extrinsic calibration of LiDAR-camera systems using plane-constrained bundle adjustment (BA). Our method leverages LiDAR point cloud measurements from planes in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Liang Li , Haotian Li , Xiyuan Liu , Dongjiao He , Ziliang Miao , Fanze Kong , Rundong Li , Zheng Liu , Fu Zhang