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Sensor-based environmental perception is a crucial part of the autonomous driving system. In order to get an excellent perception of the surrounding environment, an intelligent system would configure multiple LiDARs (3D Light Detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Pengjin Wei , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li , Kun Fang , Xinyu Cai , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

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

We present LiV-GS, a LiDAR-visual SLAM system in outdoor environments that leverages 3D Gaussian as a differentiable spatial representation. Notably, LiV-GS is the first method that directly aligns discrete and sparse LiDAR data with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Renxiang Xiao , Wei Liu , Yushuai Chen , Liang Hu

We present a novel scalable, fully distributed, and online method for simultaneous localisation and extrinsic calibration for multi-robot setups. Individual a priori unknown robot poses are probabilistically inferred as robots sense each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Riku Murai , Ignacio Alzugaray , Paul H. J. Kelly , Andrew J. Davison

We propose a method for automatic calibration of a traffic surveillance camera with wide-angle lenses. Video footage of a few minutes is sufficient for the entire calibration process to take place. This method takes in the height of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Aman Gajendra Jain , Nicolas Saunier

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

3D LiDAR sensors are essential for autonomous navigation, environmental monitoring, and precision mapping in remote sensing applications. To efficiently process the massive point clouds generated by these sensors, LiDAR data is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Samuel Soutullo , Miguel Yermo , David L. Vilariño , Óscar G. Lorenzo , José C. Cabaleiro , Francisco F. Rivera

The integration of sensor data is crucial in the field of robotics to take full advantage of the various sensors employed. One critical aspect of this integration is determining the extrinsic calibration parameters, such as the relative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Sangwoo Jung , Hyesu Jang , Minwoo Jung , Ayoung Kim , Myung-Hwan Jeon

The LiDAR and inertial sensors based localization and mapping are of great significance for Unmanned Ground Vehicle related applications. In this work, we have developed an improved LiDAR-inertial localization and mapping system for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Kangcheng Liu

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

The bioinspired event camera, distinguished by its exceptional temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption, has been extensively studied in recent years for motion estimation, robotic perception, and object detection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuolong Chen , Xingxing Li , Liu Yuan

Calibration of multi-camera systems is a key task for accurate object tracking. However, it remains a challenging problem in real-world conditions, where traditional methods are not applicable due to the lack of accurate floor plans,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Aleksandr Abramov

This paper presents a novel method for fully automatic and convenient extrinsic calibration of a 3D LiDAR and a panoramic camera with a normally printed chessboard. The proposed method is based on the 3D corner estimation of the chessboard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Weimin Wang , Ken Sakurada , Nobuo Kawaguchi

In this paper, we propose a method for online extrinsic camera calibration, i.e., estimating pitch, yaw, roll angles and camera height from road surface in sequential driving scene images. The proposed method estimates the extrinsic camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jeong-Kyun Lee , Young-Ki Baik , Hankyu Cho , Seungwoo Yoo

Hand-eye calibration aims to estimate the transformation between a camera and a robot. Traditional methods rely on fiducial markers, which require considerable manual effort and precise setup. Recent advances in deep learning have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Tutian Tang , Minghao Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Cewu Lu

In this paper, we present PTZ-Calib, a robust two-stage PTZ camera calibration method, that efficiently and accurately estimates camera parameters for arbitrary viewpoints. Our method includes an offline and an online stage. In the offline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jinhui Guo , Lubin Fan , Bojian Wu , Jiaqi Gu , Shen Cao , Jieping Ye

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

We present a method of extrinsic calibration for a system of multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs) that estimates the relative pose of each IMU on a rigid body using only measurements from the IMUs themselves, without the need to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jongwon Lee , David Hanley , Timothy Bretl

We present AnyCalib, a method for calibrating the intrinsic parameters of a camera from a single in-the-wild image, that is agnostic to the camera model. Current methods are predominantly tailored to specific camera models and/or require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Javier Tirado-Garín , Javier Civera

In this paper, we propose SCALAR, a calibration method to simultaneously calibrate the kinematic parameters of a 6-DoF robot and the extrinsic parameters of a 2D Laser Range Finder (LRF) attached to the robot's flange. The calibration setup…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Teguh Santoso Lembono , Francisco Suárez-Ruiz , Quang-Cuong Pham