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Sensor setups of robotic platforms commonly include both camera and LiDAR as they provide complementary information. However, fusing these two modalities typically requires a highly accurate calibration between them. In this paper, we…

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…

We propose a generic event camera calibration framework using image reconstruction. Instead of relying on blinking LED patterns or external screens, we show that neural-network-based image reconstruction is well suited for the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Manasi Muglikar , Mathias Gehrig , Daniel Gehrig , Davide Scaramuzza

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

We present a novel target-based lidar-camera extrinsic calibration methodology that can be used for non-overlapping field of view (FOV) sensors. Contrary to previous work, our methodology overcomes the non-overlapping FOV challenge using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Nicholas Charron , Huaiyuan Weng , Steven L. Waslander , Sriram Narasimhan

Cameras and LiDAR are essential sensors for autonomous vehicles. The fusion of camera and LiDAR data addresses the limitations of individual sensors but relies on precise extrinsic calibration. Recently, numerous end-to-end calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ni Ou , Zhuo Chen , Xinru Zhang , Junzheng Wang

Sensor fusion is vital for the safe and robust operation of autonomous vehicles. Accurate extrinsic sensor to sensor calibration is necessary to accurately fuse multiple sensor's data in a common spatial reference frame. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Jack Borer , Jeremy Tschirner , Florian Ölsner , Stefan Milz

Accurate and reliable sensor calibration is critical for fusing LiDAR and inertial measurements in autonomous driving. This paper proposes a novel three-stage extrinsic calibration method between LiDAR and GNSS/INS for autonomous driving.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Guohang Yan , Jiahao Pi , Chengjie Wang , Xinyu Cai , Yikang Li

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

This paper presents an open source LiDAR-camera calibration toolbox that is general to LiDAR and camera projection models, requires only one pairing of LiDAR and camera data without a calibration target, and is fully automatic. For…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Kenji Koide , Shuji Oishi , Masashi Yokozuka , Atsuhiko Banno

Accurate LiDAR-Camera (LC) calibration is challenging but crucial for autonomous systems and robotics. In this paper, we propose two single-shot and target-less algorithms to estimate the calibration parameters between LiDAR and camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

Accurate and robust extrinsic calibration is necessary for deploying autonomous systems which need multiple sensors for perception. In this paper, we present a robust system for real-time extrinsic calibration of multiple lidars in vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sandipan Das , Ludvig af Klinteberg , Maurice Fallon , Saikat Chatterjee

This letter proposes an extrinsic calibration approach for a pair of monocular camera and prism-spinning solid-state LiDAR. The unique characteristics of the point cloud measured resulting from the flower-like scanning pattern is first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiahui Liu , Xingqun Zhan , Cheng Chi , Xin Zhang , Chuanrun Zhai

Event cameras generate asynchronous signals in response to pixel-level brightness changes, offering a sensing paradigm with theoretically microsecond-scale latency that can significantly enhance the performance of multi-sensor systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Jiayao Mai , Xiuyuan Lu , Kuan Dai , Shaojie Shen , Yi Zhou

Mobile robotic applications need precise information about the geometric position of the individual sensors on the platform. This information is given by the extrinsic calibration parameters which define how the sensor is rotated and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Philipp Glira , Christoph Weidinger , Johann Weichselbaum

This article presents an innovative study in exploring, evaluating, and implementing deep learning architectures for the calibration of multi-modal sensor systems. The focus behind this is to leverage the use of sensor fusion to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Venkat Karramreddy , Liam Mitchell

LIDAR and RADAR are two commonly used sensors in autonomous driving systems. The extrinsic calibration between the two is crucial for effective sensor fusion. The challenge arises due to the low accuracy and sparse information in RADAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peng Jiang , Srikanth Saripalli

Accurate spatiotemporal calibration is a prerequisite for multisensor fusion. However, sensors are typically asynchronous, and there is no overlap between the fields of view of cameras and LiDARs, posing challenges for intrinsic and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yuezhang Lv , Yunzhou Zhang , Chao Lu , Jiajun Zhu , Song Wu

Event camera, a bio-inspired asynchronous triggered camera, offers promising prospects for fusion with frame-based cameras owing to its low latency and high dynamic range. However, calibrating stereo vision systems that incorporate both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shaoan Wang , Zhanhua Xin , Yaoqing Hu , Dongyue Li , Mingzhu Zhu , Junzhi Yu

As an essential procedure of data fusion, LiDAR-camera calibration is critical for autonomous vehicles and robot navigation. Most calibration methods rely on hand-crafted features and require significant amounts of extracted features or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Xudong Lv , Boya Wang , Ziwen Dou , Dong Ye , Shuo Wang