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Accurate LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is a precondition for many multi-sensor systems in mobile robots. Most calibration methods rely on laborious manual operations and calibration targets. While working online, the calibration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xin Jing , Xiaqing Ding , Rong Xiong , Huanjun Deng , Yue Wang

Advanced sensors are a key to enable self-driving cars technology. Laser scanner sensors (LiDAR, Light Detection And Ranging) became a fundamental choice due to its long-range and robustness to low light driving conditions. The problem of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-19 Khaled Elmadawi , Moemen Abdelrazek , Mohamed Elsobky , Hesham M. Eraqi , Mohamed Zahran

Calibration is an essential prerequisite for the accurate data fusion of LiDAR and camera sensors. Traditional calibration techniques often require specific targets or suitable scenes to obtain reliable 2D-3D correspondences. To tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Shujuan Huang , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao

In a multi-sensor fusion system composed of cameras and LiDAR, precise extrinsic calibration contributes to the system's long-term stability and accurate perception of the environment. However, methods based on extracting and registering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Tianle Zeng , Dengke He , Feifan Yan , Meixi He

The goal of extrinsic calibration is the alignment of sensor data to ensure an accurate representation of the surroundings and enable sensor fusion applications. From a safety perspective, sensor calibration is a key enabler of autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ilir Tahiraj , Jeremialie Swadiryus , Felix Fent , Markus Lienkamp

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

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

LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-modal data fusion in robotic perception systems. However, existing approaches typically rely on handcrafted calibration targets (e.g., checkerboards) or specific, static scene types,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhiwei Huang , Yanwei Fu , Yi Zhou , Xieyuanli Chen , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

This paper presents a novel automatic calibration system to estimate the extrinsic parameters of LiDAR mounted on a mobile platform for sensor misalignment inspection in the large-scale production of highly automated vehicles. To obtain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Ji-Hwan You , Seon Taek Oh , Jae-Eun Park , Azim Eskandarian , Young-Keun Kim

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

We propose an algorithm for automatic, targetless, extrinsic calibration of a LiDAR and camera system using semantic information. We achieve this goal by maximizing mutual information (MI) of semantic information between sensors, leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Peng Jiang , Philip Osteen , Srikanth Saripalli

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

In the typical urban intersection scenario, both vehicles and infrastructures are equipped with visual and LiDAR sensors. By successfully integrating the data from vehicle-side and road monitoring devices, a more comprehensive and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Xinyu Zhang , Yijin Xiong , Qianxin Qu , Renjie Wang , Xin Gao , Jing Liu , Shichun Guo , Jun Li

Motivated by the increasing application of low-resolution LiDAR recently, we target the problem of low-resolution LiDAR-camera calibration in this work. The main challenges are two-fold: sparsity and noise in point clouds. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Zhikang Zhang , Zifan Yu , Suya You , Raghuveer Rao , Sanjeev Agarwal , Fengbo Ren

3D LiDARs and 2D cameras are increasingly being used alongside each other in sensor rigs for perception tasks. Before these sensors can be used to gather meaningful data, however, their extrinsics (and intrinsics) need to be accurately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Ganesh Iyer , R. Karnik Ram. , J. Krishna Murthy , K. Madhava Krishna

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

LiDAR sensors are often considered essential for autonomous driving, but high-resolution sensors remain expensive while affordable low-resolution sensors produce sparse point clouds that miss critical details. LiDAR super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 June Moh Goo , Zichao Zeng , Jan Boehm

Accurate sensor calibration is a prerequisite for multi-sensor perception and localization systems for autonomous vehicles. The intrinsic parameter calibration of the sensor is to obtain the mapping relationship inside the sensor, and the…

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

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