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In multimodal perception systems, achieving precise extrinsic calibration between LiDAR and camera is of critical importance. Previous calibration methods often required specific targets or manual adjustments, making them both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Xingchen Li , Yifan Duan , Beibei Wang , Haojie Ren , Guoliang You , Yu Sheng , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

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

Light field cameras can capture both spatial and angular information of light rays, enabling 3D reconstruction by a single exposure. The geometry of 3D reconstruction is affected by intrinsic parameters of a light field camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Qi Zhang , Chunping Zhang , Jinbo Ling , Qing Wang , Jingyi Yu

Light field cameras capture the 3D information in a scene with a single exposure. This special feature makes light field cameras very appealing for a variety of applications: from post-capture refocus, to depth estimation and image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Mattia Rossi , Pascal Frossard

This paper presents MFCalib, an innovative extrinsic calibration technique for LiDAR and RGB camera that operates automatically in targetless environments with a single data capture. At the heart of this method is using a rich set of edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tianyong Ye , Wei Xu , Chunran Zheng , Yukang Cui

LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration (LCEC) is crucial for data fusion in intelligent vehicles. Offline, target-based approaches have long been the preferred choice in this field. However, they often demonstrate poor adaptability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhiwei Huang , Yikang Zhang , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

Accurate extrinsic calibration of multiple LiDARs is crucial for improving the foundational performance of three-dimensional (3D) map reconstruction systems. This paper presents a novel targetless extrinsic calibration framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Han Ye , Yuqiang Jin , Jinyuan Liu , Tao Li , Wen-An Zhang , Minglei Fu

This manuscript provides a new framework for calibration of optical instruments, in particular mobile cameras, using large-scale circular black and white target fields. New methods were introduced for (i) matching targets between images;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Reza Maalek , Derek Lichti

A framework for online simultaneous localization, mapping and self-calibration is presented which can detect and handle significant change in the calibration parameters. Estimates are computed in constant-time by factoring the problem and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Nima Keivan , Gabe Sibley

Camera calibration is an essential prerequisite for event-based vision applications. Current event camera calibration methods typically involve using flashing patterns, reconstructing intensity images, and utilizing the features extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zibin Liu , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Zhenbao Yu , Yifei Bian , Qifeng Yu

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

Online camera-to-ground calibration is to generate a non-rigid body transformation between the camera and the road surface in a real-time manner. Existing solutions utilize static calibration, suffering from environmental variations such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Binbin Li , Xinyu Du , Yao Hu , Hao Yu , Wende Zhang

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

For autonomous vehicles, an accurate calibration for LiDAR and camera is a prerequisite for multi-sensor perception systems. However, existing calibration techniques require either a complicated setting with various calibration targets, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tao Ma , Zhizheng Liu , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li

In this letter, we present a novel method for automatic extrinsic calibration of high-resolution LiDARs and RGB cameras in targetless environments. Our approach does not require checkerboards but can achieve pixel-level accuracy by aligning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Chongjian Yuan , Xiyuan Liu , Xiaoping Hong , Fu Zhang

Accurate camera calibration is a fundamental task for 3D perception, especially when dealing with real-world, in-the-wild environments where complex optical distortions are common. Existing methods often rely on pre-rectified images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Liuyue Xie , Jiancong Guo , Ozan Cakmakci , Andre Araujo , Laszlo A. Jeni , Zhiheng Jia

Estimating camera intrinsic parameters without prior scene knowledge is a fundamental challenge in computer vision. This capability is particularly important for applications such as autonomous driving and vehicle platooning, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gregory Schroeder , Mohamed Sabry , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

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…

The homogeneous transformation between a LiDAR and monocular camera is required for sensor fusion tasks, such as SLAM. While determining such a transformation is not considered glamorous in any sense of the word, it is nonetheless crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Jessy W. Grizzle

Bundle adjustment plays a vital role in feature-based monocular SLAM. In many modern SLAM pipelines, bundle adjustment is performed to estimate the 6DOF camera trajectory and 3D map (3D point cloud) from the input feature tracks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Álvaro Parra , Tat-Jun Chin , Anders Eriksson , Ian Reid